The LawDog Files: Meditations on tool use.

I sometimes link to articles I think are worth reading. Here's another one on tools, courtesy of LawDog. In this case, I had written a (pretty sorry, not-very-well-conceived) essay on the same subject quite some time ago, and I never got around to revising it. LawDog addresses the issue with more eloquence than I could hope to match:

The LawDog Files: Meditations on tool use.