Cisco hyperbole and other foolishness

A recent web ad by Cisco asserts that robot interfaces are part of "pure research".

A Cisco vice-president in a long-running ad on MSNBC claims that the next generation will be able to see whatever they want, wherever they want.  Will that generation be living on another planet?  Apparently you don't need to know much history to predict the future.

Then there is the CNN headline to report that new planets have been found "in the Milky Way".  Did they really think that we are spotting star wobbles in another galaxy?  In the Andromeda Galaxy? The Whirlpool Galaxy?

You might as well report that more species of salt-water fish have been found - and that they live in the ocean.  Or that more craters have been found on the moon - and that they are on the surface.  Or that you don't need to know much to be licensed as a journalist under the law proposed in Quebec ...

Huffington Post

The arrival of Howard Fineman may have been an uptick for huffingtonpost.com but it still ranks below Fox News which almost has a Science link on its home page.

There is a Science page for HP but you have to look for it: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/science

Here's a sample from today's page:

We have a problem. We can't go back to old-time religion in familiar ways, and we can't go on bowing down before the scientific method. What is a person to do?

What I suggest is the NYT Science pages as a place to hang a link.


Remember: "we can't go on bowing down before the scientific method."  Oh, that would be which of Mill's idols?

I am working on a model of a browser for science feeds with some concept mapping and some annotation features as an alternative to what remains my best tool: OneNote.

If you have a package better than OneNote 2003 or 2007 or 2010, I would love to hear about it.