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Friday, October 21, 2005
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Macosxrumors.com reports today that Leopard -- Apple's next version of OS X will sport a new Finder, based mostly on Spotlight. I was thinking again yesterday how terribly bad the current Mac Finder is; it's a pale shadow of the great Finder of yesteryear. Mostly I was remembering one time working with Arthur Naiman, this was in the days of the Mac, probably 85, and as we started work, he took a few minutes to rearrange and resize several windows just the way he wanted them. It seemed anal at the time to me, but within a few minutes it became clear how easy it was to work with stuff after it had been so arranged. And the Finder remembered the window sizes! The current Finder doesn't seem to do that at all. In the early 90s, I wrote an AppleScript that let you go one better than this (hard disks made the earlier arrangement more problematic). You could arrange windows in a certain pattern, then run a script that saved the current window settings, and then you could return to those settings quickly and easily. Maybe I'll go back and find that script and see if I can work it for today's Finder. Anyway, fixing Finder can't come too soon....
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I've written my rapture letter. Have you? Think of how confused your family and friends will be when you're raptured away! (Thanks & a tip of the ol' hat to Paul.)
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Is Jesus really whom he is reported to have said he was? Was Jesus really the Son of God? C.S. Lewis believed so and also believed that he had a very good argument for convincing people to agree: if Jesus...
(Via About Agnosticism/Atheism.)
Nicely sums up arguments against Lewis' false trilemma. Instead of lord, liar, or lunatic, there are plenty of other, more plausible choices, such as simply mistaken, no accurate record of what Jesus actually said, maybe Jesus didn't exist at all, etc. The straw man or false dilemma is one that is used by all sorts of people. Intellectually honest people try to present their opponents' best cases instead of straw men.
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