2006.03.03

If you're a London blogger, sign up for the London Blog Meetup. It's happening on Tuesday March the 21st at 7pm at All Bar One, 36-38 Dean Street. Also on upcoming.org and Jo's blog. 2006-03-03T23:09:53ZUntitled entry permalink

Very cool and funny video about MMORPGs. (Thanks, Stray!) 2006-03-03T22:57:41ZUntitled entry permalink

Don't worry, I'm a UserTalk-learning vegetarian. 2006-03-03T21:56:33ZUntitled entry permalink

Dave Cross is angry about the damn creationists too. 2006-03-03T20:48:08ZUntitled entry permalink

Kevin Burton is building a Web 2.0 OS X Hall of Shame. 2006-03-03T20:14:08ZUntitled entry permalink

Joystiq reports that Famitsu ranks, based on a poll, Final Fantasy X as the top game of all time, and points out that seven of the top ten are traditional RPGs. Oh, how I want to move to Japan and escape a gaming market dominated by damn Tom Clancy games and equally dull revisitations of the Same Old Sports Games. 2006-03-03T20:10:45ZUntitled entry permalink

P. Z. Myers discusses Rick Wood's chat with Billy Boy Dembski. 2006-03-03T20:07:32ZUntitled entry permalink

What are you missing by not hanging around on MySpace? Only bulletins predicting your death, vomiting, sex with Eastern European cryptozoological phenomena and much more. This movie is better than MySpace though. 2006-03-03T19:46:48ZUntitled entry permalink

Of course, Microsoft have the added advantage that Office is as close as one can get, in software, to a goddamn chastity belt. No wonder so many schools use Windows... 2006-03-03T19:31:58ZUntitled entry permalink

You wanna know the difference between Apple and Microsoft? Look no further than the packaging (YouTube video). 2006-03-03T19:29:01ZUntitled entry permalink

I can't find a Usenet reader on OS X that's worth a damn. Any suggestions? 2006-03-03T17:23:11ZUntitled entry permalink

Lots of Flickr yumminess. 2006-03-03T14:29:50ZUntitled entry permalink

Les: "I've learned that I can program while listening to people talking - ie. fiction or discussion podcasts. But, once I start actually spewing words myself, I have to switch over to music. Otherwise, I just can't get anything extended and coherent done with that part of my brain". Me too. 2006-03-03T14:23:36ZUntitled entry permalink

Google have some nice widgets for Dashboard. 2006-03-03T13:08:27ZUntitled entry permalink

Mike: do the London thing. You know you want to. Perhaps also a CrunchCamp, like a trendier version of What! The! Hack! but without the bearded German OpenBSD developers. Smile and a wink 2006-03-03T12:58:58ZUntitled entry permalink

Google for gals! No, it's not a pink flowery Google homepage - Google have taken teenage girls around their offices to try and help more girls in to engineering and C.S. 2006-03-03T12:57:20ZUntitled entry permalink

MTV to take on MySpace? Lets hope the two butt heads and kill one another. 2006-03-03T11:27:37ZUntitled entry permalink

Daniel Dennett and Richard Swinburne discuss religion in this month's Prospect 2006-03-03T11:17:04ZUntitled entry permalink

Dimwit Prince attacks law which allowed him to marry that Camilla. 2006-03-03T11:04:50ZUntitled entry permalink

This is profoundly messed up. Mass disobedience is the answer. The idea that the government should fund the "copyright sector" is ludicrous. 2006-03-03T11:02:14ZUntitled entry permalink

I've just been installing Widgets. Gmail, Upcoming, National Rail. All very handy. If you know of any Widgets for the Dashboard which would help me do what I do better, funkier and sexier, drop me an email. 2006-03-03T09:55:18ZUntitled entry permalink

Good list of OPML stuff even though it doesn't include the OPML Editor and newsRiver.root. 2006-03-03T09:38:53ZUntitled entry permalink

The Carson Workshops in London have MP3s available, and Tom Coates has a visual representation of his talk. 2006-03-03T09:35:23ZUntitled entry permalink

This is rather useful - I use a two-way radio for intercomming. Simpler and cheaper than wiring the house up. 2006-03-03T09:30:35ZUntitled entry permalink

Scoble is right. Slashdot praising Windows is a rarity. Me praising Windows is an even bigger rarity. 2006-03-03T09:28:25ZUntitled entry permalink

More on the OPML and the Reading Lists including a potentially good use in education. 2006-03-03T09:27:16ZUntitled entry permalink

Kent, don't worry too much about the censors. When a site I was involved in got censored for the first time, it was really a badge of honour. Of course, if you want, you could try and step around their filters. That's what I'm trying to do to help some people in school to access what they want, now what their incompetent school wants. 2006-03-03T09:22:06ZUntitled entry permalink

Channel 4 are going to rub away some of the whitewash around the Queen Mum. Good for them. We need our delusions to be removed, especially when it comes to these overprivileged little twits in the Royal Family. 2006-03-03T09:20:34ZUntitled entry permalink

This seems about right. Of course, if you replace the rock with a Macintosh computer, I'm siding with the religious folk. These bitches are magic. 2006-03-03T09:16:29ZUntitled entry permalink

Look, again, read the Linda Smith obit in the Grauniad. Then again "observant atheist" - WTF? 2006-03-03T09:15:09ZUntitled entry permalink

Hidden Passageway.com looks so cool. As does Media Central, but less so (Front Row has support for both audio and video podcasts and DVD, both of which are fine for me). Both thanks to Tom Coates. 2006-03-03T09:09:22ZUntitled entry permalink

GPRS test blog from Darwin, my new lappy. Smile and a wink 2006-03-03T07:42:10ZUntitled entry permalink

Kent Newsome has a Web 2.0 Reality Check. 2006-03-03T00:33:36ZUntitled entry permalink

NetNewsWire 2.1 is going to be a Universal app, and has a fairly nice speed kick for both Intel and PPC users. 2006-03-03T00:17:09ZUntitled entry permalink

Jeremy Zawodny has an extremely useful, if rather patchy, OPML export for My Yahoo users. 2006-03-03T00:04:45ZUntitled entry permalink

Kevin Burton is being unrealistic. However much Blogger sucks, killing it isn't going to happen. 2006-03-03T00:02:38ZUntitled entry permalink

Social Creationism 2006-03-03T18:29:32ZTitled entry permalink

A talk.origins gem below posted by "VoiceOfReason" on Jan 30 2006 in response to Bobby D. Bryant:

What are the tenants of social creationism? "The upper class and lower class are separate 'kinds', and thus should not mingle"?

And here's VoiceOfReason's response:

- Freedom of Religion, Press, Expression - To worship the way we TELL you, and the freedom to express your appreciation (or else).
- Right to Bear Arms - The more, the better.
- Search and Seizure - For your protection, search and seizure will be unrestricted, including all items of a potentially subversive nature.
- Trial and Punishment - No person shall be held without due cause, unless in the interests of the State.
- Women's Sufferage - Don't worry sweetie, we'll make all the tough decisions for you.

Lovely.

 

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Tom Morris
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I am a , an , like to code in and noodle about with and the . I also have a BA in philosophy from London, and am studying for an MA. My philosophical interests are in Victorian-era German philosophy, Kierkegaard, Robert Nozick, hermeneutics and current approaches to the demarcation problem in the philosophy of science. 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.

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