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<?xml-stylesheet href="/style/rss/rss_feed.xsl" type="text/xsl" media="screen"?><?xml-stylesheet href="/style/rss/rss_feed.css" type="text/css" media="screen" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Clipmarks | sitegeist's clips</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipper/sitegeist/date/2008/5/9/</link><feedUrl>http://rss.clipmarks.com/clipper/sitegeist/date/2008/5/9/</feedUrl><ttl>15</ttl><description>Clip, tag and save information that's important to you. Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!</description><language>en-us</language><item><title>David Lehmann Paintings</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/FB3B166E-D3B8-4CBA-97B3-6E06C6ED99B5/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/sitegeist/"&gt;sitegeist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  modern expressionism by the very gifted David Lehmann. I think is as good as Beckmann. &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://fineartamerica.com/featured/anna-o-and-adolf-h-david-lehmann.html" title="http://fineartamerica.com/featured/anna-o-and-adolf-h-david-lehmann.html"&gt;fineartamerica.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;H1&gt;Anna O. and Adolf H. - David Lehmann&lt;/H1&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/sitegeist/512/C51BCCCF-81B2-4494-B74C-A312E4A42A2E.jpg" alt="David Lehmann - Anna O. and Adolf H. Painting " /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/art/" rel="tag"&gt;art&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/expressionism/" rel="tag"&gt;expressionism&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/lehmann+paintings+galery/" rel="tag"&gt;lehmann paintings galery&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://fineartamerica.com/featured/anna-o-and-adolf-h-david-lehmann.html</clipSource><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 12:58:28 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Carl Sagan Portal</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/3D4C68A0-3ED5-41A2-B404-309E4B20170D/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/sitegeist/"&gt;sitegeist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  Carl Sagan - his ideas are still very inspiring. &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.carlsagan.com/" title="http://www.carlsagan.com/"&gt;www.carlsagan.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/sitegeist/512/772753EC-636E-460B-BA92-7C9ADC6536F5.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.carlsagan.com/index_ideas.htm" title="http://www.carlsagan.com/index_ideas.htm"&gt;www.carlsagan.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/sitegeist/512/D1B62EDE-7F5B-4E4E-993F-277AF227822B.gif" alt="ideas" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.carlsagan.com/index_ideascontent.htm" title="http://www.carlsagan.com/index_ideascontent.htm"&gt;www.carlsagan.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Baloney Detection Kit&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Warning signs that suggest deception. Based on the book by Carl Sagan, &lt;A target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Demon-Haunted-World-Science-Candle-Dark/dp/039453512X/sr=1-2/qid=1162650392/ref=pd_bbs_2/102-7836312-3332147?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books"&gt;The Demon Haunted World&lt;/A&gt;. The following are suggested as tools for testing arguments and detecting fallacious or fraudulent arguments:&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;Wherever possible there must be independent confirmation of the facts.

&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;Encourage substantive debate on the evidence by knowledgeable proponents of all points of view.

&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;Occam's razor - if there are two hypotheses that explain the data equally well choose the simpler.

&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;Arguments from authority carry little weight (in science there are no "authorities").

&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;Quantify, wherever possible.

&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;Try not to get overly attached to a hypothesis just because it's yours.

&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://www.carlsagan.com/</clipSource><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 12:35:43 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>