2005.07.30
« Previous No. 42 Next »
Anybody in the UK with slow connections - I've got a DVD burner and am perfectly happy to burn and send DVD-R's of the WTH/HAL conference video at little or no cost. I may also get involved in setting up a big torrent of all the stuff. 2005-07-30T16:16:26Z
I'm just downloading a tens of gigs of data off the network - all the video files of the conference so far. Since I'm going home in the morning, this is a good investment. There will be more files to get, but I might as well fill my hard drive up with lots of it here, so that I don't have to download as much when I get home (since I get 600k a second here and a measly 40k a second at home, this is a significant time saving). Later I'll also get it to pull lots of the Hackers at Large video. 2005-07-30T16:09:16Z
CNN have put up the AP article on What The Hack. 2005-07-30T15:43:11Z
James Campion: "Im 42 and impersonating a Christian activist at a NYC porn expo for a thousand word column." 2005-07-30T15:28:14Z
Brian 'Aimee Plumley' Bernbaum on the late Jacques Derrida: "But seriously, I just wanted to say that without you college really would have sucked. I never would have started dropping acid to write my critical theory papers. Come to think of it, I might never have majored in English at all. I probably would have gone for something more practical, like business. But just look at me now. Yeah, thanks a lot asshole." I'm late, but I get the story. Eventually. 2005-07-30T14:58:24Z
Okay, that's odd. Comments appear as posts. They would be a natural thing for 'draft', no? 2005-07-30T14:54:21Z
Dewayne Mikkelson: "What is Shift-Enter supposed to do in the Open today's outline window? I have a new non wedge widget underneath this entry." That would be a comment line. Quite useful for posting stuff that you don't want others to see. I'm not sure whether it works as a kind of 'draft mode'. 2005-07-30T14:43:33Z
Sorry, everybody. Lost my connection for a while. Had a nice lazy day today. 2005-07-30T14:23:56Z
The new header logo is from a picture of one of my three dogs, Leo, standing lookout on the front door of a holiday cottage down in Cornwall. Picture must be from at least a few years back. Probably 1999, but perhaps earlier. 2005-07-30T07:51:06Z
Today, I am going to go to: Censorship technology in China, Literature wants to be free!, CC Netherlands and perhaps some other stuff. Last night's Speedgeek was fun. We need more of them. Some of the talks were fantastic, some were just bizarre. But it certainly gets people talking. That's a good thing. Plus there was a guy who really knew his stuff regarding reputation systems. 2005-07-30T07:23:55Z
This is the best bit of the What The Hack morning. Absolute silence (except my PC whirring away), warm and light, but not sweaty or uncomfortable. We need a British version of WTH. I think it's Danny O'Brien who had his byline for MacUser as something like he imagines a bunch of geeks sitting at iBook's naked in the New Forest. I dunno about naked (We are British, After All!), but lots of nerds make outside very much acceptable, in my opinion. 2005-07-30T06:05:43Z
FeedTagger is almost perfect. Almost! 2005-07-30T06:00:12Z
Come to Podcastcon UK, everybody! 2005-07-30T05:45:44Z
I think I've pulled some bit of my leg. Woke up with it in a funny position a few minutes ago, caused searing pain. 2005-07-30T05:00:31Z
Links from del.icio.us
-
Celebrity Culture in America
"a kind of pornography of the spirit, turning us all into voyeurs and gossip mongers, tempting us all to bend down and peep through the keyhole"
-
Audrey Santo: Miracles or Deception? Investigative Files (Skeptical Inquirer September 1999)
This is a really sad case. This poor girl in a coma is being used for so much bullshit.
-
MagicBooks.Org - What The Hack photos
More pictures from WTH
-
spiked-risk | Article | London's new superstition
-
WordPress 1.5 Plugin: Referrer Bouncer - A Plugin to bounce referrer spammer bots (and humans) - Simple Thoughts
A neat referrer spam plugin that I will rollout when I'm sitting at my proper desk.
-
lancearthur.com: Just Write: Man Grooming Archives
Suits, shaving, sexy underwear. It's like Queer Eye but with hyperlinks. As a retrosexual, I'm against this sort of thing, supposedly.
-
Colloidal Silver: Risk without Benefit
Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org
I am a vegetarian, an atheist, like to code in Ruby and Scala (and Java, but let’s not talk about that), and noodle about with microformats and the Semantic Web.
I have an MA in philosophy from Heythrop College, University of London. My philosophical interests are in analytic metaphysics, ontology, modality, the work of Armstrong, Lewis, Kripke, Russell and Plato. I have a strange, unfulfilled interest in Gadamer’s hermeneutics. I’ve been influenced by Gadamer, by Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Rawls and Nozick.
Musically, I like jazz fusion, soul and P-Funk. My musical nirvana would be a mixture of Beethoven, Miles Davis and George Clinton topped with a side-serving of Erykah, Jill and Angie.
I also write for the Citizendium, an online encyclopedia project. If you know about stuff, you should join in. I occasionally produce audio recordings for The Pod Delusion.
