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Every time Intelligent Design makes it to the news, my big question always goes unanswered:

What long-term impact should ID have on how science gets done? Suppose us radical Darwinists realize that we misundestood the true nature of science and rational inquiry, and the United States becomes the world leader …

iTunes can play Ogg Vorbis again!

I rip all my CDs to the Ogg Vorbis format -- partly because of sound quality and partly on principle. The algorithms for turning a song into an MP3 file are proprietary, encumbered with copyrights, licensing rules, codicils about first-born children (you'll find that out …

Further discussion has led to some interesting questions about policies designed to foster philanthropy:

1. In order to avoid taxes, rich people put a lot of money into personal foundations, which then give grants to non-profits. That sounds nice, because non-profits are supposed to be altruistic by their very nature, but …