The "Intelligent Design" Theory Of Wikipedia, Er, Maybe We Should Call That "Intentional Design" Options Rating

[Jon Awbrey]

There's a theme, so far ex tempore, that persists in tugging at my little gray cells in divers and sundry e-vironments. I will begin by replicating and mutating an unnatural selection of these sporting thoughts here.

Jon

[Jon Awbrey]

Tongue In Cheek (TIC)?

In my youth I had a fairly robust Integrating Facility (IF), but I let it wax rusty in the iron cage of oeuvre-speciation, so it's something of a struggle for me to integrate the many-splintered themes that I enumerated above, not to mention the yarn-bag packed full of loose threads and tangled skeins from which I can hardly tease them.

And now another Infantile Fantasy (IF) hits the fan — it's the one that goes a bit like this:

We're all perfectly equal in our knowledge of everything, and all it takes is the stubborn insistence of random jostling in gang-banging ganglia of self-confessed I-Am-Not-An-Expert-Bots for the obseen hand of e-volution, re*acting witlessly to one damn e-mergency after another, for knowledge to arise in the Systern.

It is of course but another turn on a very old gambit, so a word to the wise will be sufficient — how about this one:

∃←Ø (Something For Nothing)
That Old Con (TOC)!

Jon

This post has been edited by Jon Awbrey: Sun 27th April 2008, 4:50pm