Grab the PDFs — Ends 12/31
The Synthese special issue on “Evolution and Its Rivals” allows downloads of the full PDFs for all the articles, but only through 12/31, so you have just a day left to download them for free. After that, they go back to being $35 each or something of the sort.
Jeff Shallit and I have an article in it about Dembski’s “complex specified information”.
I particularly like your example of random palindrome generation as a way to generate large amounts of complex specified information rapidly. I’d thought of randomly generating strings in a context-free language more complicated than the one you chose: a subset of the set of grammatical English sentences.
ID creationists now say that your example is inadequate because “palindrome” does not specify a function. I think it would be fairly easy to respond with an example from genetic programming. That is, the evolved programs perform a function with a compact specification, but are themselves often long. GP practitioners attempt to prevent “bloat” of programs, but one could instead promote it.