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	B.I.P.E.D. :: Articles :: Darwin Part One
		He explains that the "mindless" steps of Darwin's natural selection are the outcome of "a cascade of algorithmic processes feeding on chance." Anyone who has "learned to read and write" can see that alluding to "algorithms" is simply an abstraction used to explain another abstraction.
		He explains, the shape and folding of a protein and the precise positioning of different amino acid groups allow the protein to work.
		He explains, "For cumulative selection to work, a lot of good mutations have to occur by chance." Spetner claims that the rate of copying errors for organisms other than bacteria is very small.
	www.biped.info /articles/darwin1.html (7282 words)

	Environmental Heresies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The structure of such reversals reveals a hidden strength in the environmental movement and explains why it is likely to keep on growing in influence from decade to decade and perhaps century to century.
		My mind got changed on the subject a few years ago by an Indian acquaintance who told me that in Indian villages the women obeyed their husbands and family elders, pounded grain, and sang.
		But, the acquaintance explained, when Indian women immigrated to cities, they got jobs, started businesses, and demanded their children be educated.
	www.techreview.com /articles/05/05/issue/feature_earth.asp?p=1 (955 words)

	Transaction cost - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Arguably, transaction cost reasoning became most widely known through Oliver E. Williamson's 'Transaction Cost Economics'.
		Today, transaction cost economics is used to explain a number of different behaviors.
		Often this involves considering as "transactions" not only the obvious cases of buying and selling, but also day-to-day emotional interactions, informal gift exchanges, etc.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Transaction_cost (828 words)

	Professor Bunyip
		Expect failed diplomat, terminal fantasist and Margo maven Tony Kevin to explain the whole, dark plot in yet another of his paranoid exposes.
		Probably because they are -- which would be just fine with the Prophet, as his earthly mouthpiece explains.
		The Professor had no choice but to comply, particularly with the latter, and that explains why entries slowed to a trickle.
	bunyip.blogspot.com /2002_09_15_bunyip_archive.html (1409 words)

	Working smarter, not harder: An interview with Kent Beck
		I need courage to tell you this will take two weeks even though I know the only acceptable answer is the end of the day.
		"Java design patterns 101" by David Gallardo explains why patterns are useful and important for object-oriented design and development, and how patterns are documented, categorized, and cataloged.
		He also discusses when patterns should be used and provides examples of important patterns and how they are implemented.
	www-128.ibm.com /developerworks/java/library/j-beck?open&ca=dgr-jw16j-beck (2536 words)

	Grab headlines from a remote RSS file
		Since no official format for such feeds exists, aggregators are often faced with the difficulty of supporting multiple formats, so Nick also explains how to use XSL transformations to more easily deal with multiple syndication file formats.
		This article explains how to use Java technology to retrieve the content of a syndicated feed, determine its type, and then transform it into HTML and display it on a Web site.
		Responsibility for RSS 2.0 was recently transferred to the Berkman Center at Harvard.
	www-128.ibm.com /developerworks/xml/library/x-headrss.html (2148 words)

	Babylon history part of Bible prophecy
		The Greek historian Herodotus explained that Cyrus actually diverted the flow of the Euphrates and "the river sank to such an extent that the natural bed of the stream became fordable." Thus, during the night, enemy soldiers marched along the riverbed and entered the city through gates that had been carelessly left open.
		But, as it was, the Persians came upon them by surprise and so took the city." Actually, the Babylonians were involved in drunken revelry, as the Bible explains, and as Herodotus confirms.
		The Bible explains: "The hairy he-goat stands for the king of Greece; and as for the great horn that was between its eyes, it stands for the first king.
	dejnarde.ms11.net /fulfilled_prophecy.htm (1129 words)

	Books That Matter
		Edited by John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt, Networks and Netwars argues that terrorist groups such as Al Qaeda are near-perfect embodiments of a networked organization -- a form that Ozzie, the programming wizard behind Lotus Notes and Groove, pioneered.
		In an email exchange, Ozzie explains how the information revolution, which transformed the way we live and work, must now change the way we fight.
		The premise that "hierarchies have a difficult time fighting networks" is very compelling.
	www.fastcompany.com /online/55/books.html (253 words)

	A Dichotomy in Two Colors - Mises Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Here, all voted for the Democrats in 2004, with the exception of Nevada and Colorado. On these terms, New Jersey is the greatest loser of the wealth transfer sweepstakes: for every dollar it sent to the feds, it received back a whopping $0.66.
		What gives? The answers are not clear and somewhat complicated, especially since the Republican Party, the choice of the reds, is far from a party of small government. What follows are some conjectures that attempt to explain this dichotomy of the red and the blue.
		While such investments are made today in most every state, they take on added importance in the red states where the anti-Washington culture is based on a history of being independent from it.
	www.mises.org /fullstory.aspx?control=1677 (614 words)

	Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: October 24, 2004 - October 30, 2004 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The insurgents probably are using weapons and ammunition looted from the nearby Qa-Qaa complex, a 3-mile by 3-mile weapons-storage facility about 25 miles southwest of Baghdad, said Maj. Brian Neil, operations officer for the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, which initially patrolled the area.
		As we've noted in a series of posts over the course of the day, the NBC story started falling apart when MSNBC interviewed one of the members of the news crew in question, who said that there hadn't been any search at all.
		A short time later Jim Miklaszewski came on to explain that indeed there had been no search and that what the NBC News crew saw didn't tell us much of anything about whether explosives were still there at the time the news crew arrived with the 101st Airborne on April 10th.
	www.talkingpointsmemo.com /archives/week_2004_10_24.php#003777 (15181 words)

	Hugh Hewitt
		But he's shown himself intelligent and consistent in explaining his rulings so far and he'll continue to be in hearings, Coats said.
		All right, if you have to explain why the Republican amendment is good by using a phrase most people would have to look up in the C-SPAN Congressional Glossary, then I'd say you've already lost the message battle.
		This is the problem with pop/rock/movie stars: They are never pushed to explain more fully what it is they believe is going on in the world.
	hughhewitt.com (14062 words)

	Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: February 06, 2005 - February 12, 2005 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		But his "crucial test", as he now explains it, is one that, in the nature of things, simply can't be met, or would be so improbable as to amount to an impossibility.
		If he doesn't, he's got a hell of a lot of explaining to do since it was under his guidance that we came up with this whole idea.
		Slaughter (D) of New York calls on the president to explain why a phony 'reporter' from 'Talon News' got accredited at the White House for the apparent purpose of teeing up softball questions for McClellan and the president.
	www.talkingpointsmemo.com /archives/week_2005_02_06.php (14527 words)

	TAPPED: April 2005 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It'll be a while before this all passes in the Senate and survives constitutional challenges, but this sort of draconian curb on the freedom of movement of pregnant minors really could be just around the corner.
		Rejecting Plan B because it's an abortifacient, as Cohn says, is a "severe standard." At least 26 countries have successfully used Plan B, safely, and some 40-60 percent of eggs don't implant on their own anyway.
		He also explains why support for Plan B is something progressives should be flocking to.
	www.prospect.org /weblog/archives/2005/04 (15888 words)

	New Scientist Why it is hard to share the wealth - News
		In one, the rich grow richer while in the other the poor stay poor.
		Yakovenko explains this by going back to the analogy of atoms in a gas.
		The atoms assume an exponential distribution of energy when they are in thermal equilibrium, and pushing the gas away from this state takes a lot of energy and it could prove similarly difficult to shift an economy to a different state.
	www.newscientist.com /channel/fundamentals/mg18524904.300 (1034 words)

	The Long Tail: Only you can save television
		Sightlines explains how the future of services is in making lots of small engagements pay, rather than shooting only for the big ones: "The big companies have mostly finished their ERP and CRM implementations, which is why Oracle has been on a buying binge.
		Joshua Porter explains the connections between the LT and Web 2.0, the umbrella meme of open technologies and empowered consumers: "I see lots of similarities between the Long Tail and Web 2.0.
		So today, let me make one of those exceptions by explaining why TV is the first place to look for Long Tail opportunities.
	longtail.typepad.com /the_long_tail/2005/03/more_long_tail_.html (12908 words)

	The "One Best Way" to Wash: A Home Economist Explains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In the early 20th century, new household technology was both accomplished and inspired by the tremendous increase in American industrial production.
		Your husband can explain where the grease cups are, the shaft, the lever, and show you how to release the wringer or any point in the machine’s operation.
		You will see that compared to other washing machines the THOR is not only the sturdiest, but the simplest, as well.
	historymatters.gmu.edu /d/5050 (4999 words)

	Learning Adventures
		The Social Studies section is a brief essay about the Punic Wars (clear, although not very interesting; but you’re supposed to use this “anchor essay” as a springboard for outside library reading, which will occupy “the remainder of this social studies period.”).
		The author doesn’t place a priority on grammar; basic grammatical concepts are explained, but there is very little practice (certainly not enough for mastery).
		She suggests “If you really feel your child needs more practice in grammar skills, I recommend Daily Grams.” This is a program I’m not enthusiastic about because it also provides almost no practice.
	www.welltrainedmind.com /J01learningadventure.html (2478 words)

	The Dark Art of Interrogation
		During the questioning sessions he again kicked Nimr out of his chair, and both he and the Lebanese captain involved cracked him occasionally across the shins with a wooden bat.
		According to Hall, he explained his role in the bombing, and in the assassination of Lebanon's President.
		He explained that Syrian intelligence agents had been behind the plan.
	www.theatlantic.com /issues/2003/10/bowden.htm (14653 words)

	Dick Clarke Is Telling the Truth - Why he's right about Bush's negligence on terrorism. By Fred Kaplan
		First, he wasn't "moved out"; he transferred, at his own request, out of frustration with being cut out of the action on broad terrorism policy, to a new NSC office dealing with cyberterrorism.
		In fact, Ron Suskind wrote the book; O'Neill was his chief source.
		Slate's William Saletan explains how Bush's aversion to all things Clinton has caused catastrophe.
	www.slate.com /id/2097685 (1715 words)

	The Depressive and the Psychopath - At last we know why the Columbine killers did it. By Dave Cullen
		Harris' pattern of grandiosity, glibness, contempt, lack of empathy, and superiority read like the bullet points on Hare's Psychopathy Checklist and convinced Fuselier and the other leading psychiatrists close to the case that Harris was a psychopath.
		It begins to explain Harris' unbelievably callous behavior: his ability to shoot his classmates, then stop to taunt them while they writhed in pain, then finish them off.
		Because psychopaths are guided by such a different thought process than non-psychopathic humans, we tend to find their behavior inexplicable.
	www.slate.com /id/2099203 (1917 words)

	Power Line: April 2005 Archives
		Salazar is a political novice, which may explain his ham-handed climb-down.
		The editors of the Wall Street Journal explain that, given the outcome of the various trials and investigations of the abuses at Abu Ghraib, one of two things is true.
		While it's certainly possible that their paths could have crossed at the State Department, their resumes don't explain why Vreeland would have any particular familiarity with Bolton.
	powerlineblog.com /archives/2005_04.php (17451 words)

	Surfin' Safari
		I wanted to explain what we've done and hopefully clear up any confusion.
		I can outline some of your suggestions and explain why we discarded them.
		First, it was suggested that the widgets be written in XML rather than HTML and that all of the new tags and attributes be namespaced.
	weblogs.mozillazine.org /hyatt/archives/2004_07.html#005913 (3373 words)

	LinuxDevCenter.com: Defending Your Site Against Spam, Part 2
		This article is the second and final installment describing my efforts to defend my systems from spam.
		first article explains some necessary concepts and terminology.
		This article will dig more into the details of an actual implementation with my mail system.
	www.linuxdevcenter.com /pub/a/linux/2003/07/24/blocklist.html (1338 words)

	TidBITS#476/12-Apr-99
		This week, Matt Neuburg explains what Frontier is and why version 6 is worth examining.
		Also this week, Jeff Hecht bemoans the sad state of fax software, and we note releases of Suitcase 8, Acrobat 4.0, StuffIt Expander and DropStuff updates, and a stock tool for Excel.
		Possibly the poor overworked public-relations grunts at UserLand have forgotten what plain language is. Let me try to lend a hand.
	www.tidbits.com /tb-issues/TidBITS-476.html (3790 words)

	OJR article: Recurring Nightmare: How One News Site Weathered the Storms
		Operating in extended crisis mode, the staff of OrlandoSentinel.com faced down three hurricanes in six weeks, delivering a combination of staff Weblogs, real-time community information and user-contributed content.
		The site's editor explains how his team tackled the story.
		If you think you have seen it all at work -- you haven?t.
	ojr.org /ojr/workplace/1098423027.php (1473 words)

	XML.com: XML support in IE5
		Before you can worry about browing XML, you have to find a server (or set up your own) that serves it properly.
		We've enclosed a note from one of XML.com's webmasters that explains how you might go about doing that.
		If you just want to read the XML out of a file (as I'm doing right now while writing this article) things are a lot easier; when IE5 opens a file whose name ends with ".xml", it assumes that it's going to contain XML and does the right things.
	www.xml.com /xml/pub/1999/03/ie5/first-x.html (2833 words)

	Q&A: SCO's McBride on his open letter to the Linux community - Computerworld
		On Tuesday, Darl McBride, CEO and president of Unix vendor The SCO Group Inc., released an open letter offering to talk about the issues separating his company and the open-source and Linux communities.
		In an interview with Computerworld yesterday, McBride explained why he wrote the letter and what he expects to accomplish.
		For months now, SCO has claimed that IBM illegally contributed some of SCO's protected Unix System V code to the Linux project, and has warned companies using Linux since the release of Version 2.4 of the Linux kernel that they have to pay SCO a licensing fee.
	www.computerworld.com /softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,84819,00.html (1307 words)

	Canadian Slavonic Papers: Encyclopedia of Rusyn History and Culture
		Two full-page illustrations cover traditional domestic architecture and wooden church architecture, for which the Carpathian region is especially known.
		Crucial to the encyclopedia is the carefully written introduction which, given decades of terminological controversy connected with the area, explains the encyclopedia's use of terms, such as Carpathian Rus', and clarifies criteria for the inclusion of entries.
		Two pages of Technical Notes and Transliteration Tables, comparing Rusyn, Vojvodinian Rusyn, Ukrainian, and Russian Cyrillic alphabets, help readers understand differences among these systems and describe language usage in the encyclopedia text.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3763/is_200403/ai_n9363940 (800 words)

	Migrating to Windows from UNIX and Linux
		They're discovering that moving to the Windows platform does not require abandoning existing investments in UNIX applications and infrastructure.
		This section explains why customers should consider migrating to Windows from UNIX.
		It also provides detailed information for IT professionals and developers on how to move from UNIX systems to Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Server
	www.microsoft.com /windows2000/migrate/unix (105 words)

	Urban Potato - Using Visual Studio Whidbey to Design Abstract Forms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Well, the time has come for me to finally get off my duff and describe how to do it.
		A long time ago I posted an article explaining why Visual Studio can’t design abstract forms.
		I also promised that I’d show you a way you could make it work in Whidbey using Whidbey’s type description provider mechanism.
	www.urbanpotato.net /default.aspx/document/2001 (1590 words)

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