"Intelligent Design on Trial" – Nova, PBS TV

Coming Soon to Public Broadcasting TV in the U.S. – and I hope to find it in Canada, too:

(Hat tip for Pharyngula for the link)

Ontario’s election results

Blue is Conservative, Red is Liberal, and Orange is NDP. The darker the colour, the stronger the win. To save space, Ontario is shown in two sections at different scales. Northern Ontario is really larger.

When people are eager to contribute and there’s good moderation, Wikepedia can be effective. I searched the standard news links in vain for a map of Ontario’s election results this morning; then I turned to the English-language version of Wikipedia. There was a nice, clear map created and contributed by an editor. There were also tabulations of the results, a list of strategic targets for each party, poll results, campaigns, public opinion surveys, strategies, and links to previous elections and party Web sites. Cool!

"Intelligent Design" – Wikipedia’s featured article

Today, the featured article at the English-language version of Wikipedia is a lengthy article about Intelligent Design. People are obviously passionately interested: the article is detailed and contains many references to outside sources. It notes that some people call ID pseudoscience. It fails to note that others, looking at the criteria for pseudoscience, have concluded that ID doesn’t have enough substance to qualify.