Tom Morris: 2006-02-16

2006.02.16

Yes, smoking is a bit like masturbation, I suppose. 2006-02-16T23:47:16Z

Pat Hayes has a fun post about the Pope, Casey Luskin and the alleged suggestion by the latter that the former is an atheist. If the Pope's an atheist, what does that make people like me and Bertrand Russell and A.J. Ayer and Richard Dawkins? Perhaps we're immoralists... 2006-02-16T23:44:19Z

Abiola Lapite points to Christopher Hitchens on (not) respecting religion. 2006-02-16T23:39:39Z

Wired News on how to make money from blogging. One hundred pages of quality content? Perhaps. But, there is somethign strange with this: I write every day on technology, culture, philosophy, religion and all that other jazz and not much happens. I start bitching about Apple's shipping of the MacBook Pro and I get linked on TailRank and my hits go through the roof. Moral: if you want to hit the big time, spread vicious rumours about Apple. Smile and a wink 2006-02-16T23:20:13Z

Brian Flemming is pointing to Dan Savage on the Puritans: "we are living with the descendants of those nutjobs, and we have to fight them". 2006-02-16T23:17:53Z

The Guardian are reporting that an A&E nurse "harmed patients to feel thrill of reviving them". WTF - why can't he just go to a damn S&M club rather than try it on emergency patients in hospitals. Damn! 2006-02-16T23:15:50Z

The Clear Channel patent is incredibly dumb. Rescind it! 2006-02-16T23:14:46Z

Is Doc Searls serious? Yeah, being in the long tail sucks. If you're not, why not throw us some link love? Why not have it so that when you're reading someone in the top x% of bloggers, it automatically pulls in a bunch of links from the not-x%. There must be a way of doing this in aggregators that doesn't kill Technorati or the equivalents. 2006-02-16T23:07:57Z

Brian Flemming takes the right-wing warbloggers to task. Free speech is not something we can toy with, and that's why Flemming is exactly correct. 2006-02-16T13:27:12Z

Jason Rosenhouse on Ken Ham: "These people know they believe the Biblical account, but they also understand that they don't really know anything about science. So here come people like Ham to give slick, polished performances with the right balance of jargon and folksiness to sound both scientific and approachable at the same time." The media may rediscover creationists every few months, but that doesn't make them any less silly. 2006-02-16T13:15:48Z

So, yet another study shows that 'faith schools' admit very few poor kids (not that this is new or anything). Why can't the government realise that if you don't have overt selection (say, by academic ability), then you open the door for covert selection on shit that doesn't matter (like church attendance). 2006-02-16T13:07:49Z

Earl Mardle has an excellent post on 3G. The mobile internet (whether 3G, EVDO or GPRS) needs to be cheaper, faster and with no bullshit like £5 ringtones or downloadable Premiership football goals. 2006-02-16T13:03:29Z

I've thought over the last few days why someone doesn't port XSLT in to Frontier's handling of outlines. But, then again, it's not that great an idea. 2006-02-16T13:02:17Z

The ever-excellent Peter Wall: "The difference between how far Christianity has come from its days of destroying unfavorable documents, cutting down trees, killing heretics, and shunning the idea that it might be a good idea to take care of the earth (because, you know, Jesus is coming back, like, tomorrow) and how far Islam still has to go before it really lives up to the "religion of peace" hype seems to be about equal. Does that mean we'll have to endure four hundred more years of Muslims figuring out how to act like civilized people? I hope not, but I won't hold my breath, either." 2006-02-16T12:59:59Z

The whole Lara Croft thing is so tacky, but at least sex is a more serious topic than what's usually talked about by the gasping video game press. However juvenile, it's better that people are gawping at some D-list nipples than it is for them to be getting excited about graphics cards. If you're still interested in celebrities pretending to be a character from a pixelly video game from 1997, then you'll love this story. 2006-02-16T12:56:19Z

Are you Asian and don't want to be? These people might be able to help! Smile and a wink 2006-02-16T12:55:06Z

Hmm. Whoops. 2006-02-16T12:53:03Z

As you know, I'm an atheist. But if I ever do bend the other way, I'm sure that I'd prefer the United Church of Christ. They seem like a reasonable bunch. As Rebecca Blood says: "If more churches were preaching this message, I have to think Christianity would have a better name among non-believers". 2006-02-16T12:51:26Z

I don't agree with Gert on a lot of things (and I find her Labour blogger brothers and sisters to be a group of uncritical authoritarians), but I do agree with her on Thought for the Day. It's a horrible institution that combines the worst of what Kierkegaard attacked in Christnedom, combined with a rather stained collection of wishy-washy theologies. It's not only twee, it's offensive to the very idea of thought. 2006-02-16T12:39:31Z

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