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I have just published a review of The New Elites by George Walden. 2006-04-09T22:08:04Z
This idea is pretty dumb. RSS serves up everything we need for now. We just need to script a few other functions and we've got everything we need, without carting around a big Offline Web. 2006-04-09T19:04:35Z
I'm just listening to Alex Barnett's OPML Podcast. Very cool. We need a sort of collaborative RSS feed for OPML podcasted discussion. 2006-04-09T17:37:02Z
Ellen Goodman hits the bad bloggers where it hurts. 2006-04-09T11:26:58Z
Katie Couric recently repeated the down-and-out lie that there are no atheists in foxholes. Perhaps she could tell that face-to-face with the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers. Perhaps she could tell it to the parents of the atheists who've given their lives in military service. Perhaps she should read this. And visit the monument in Alabama. Actually, why spoil a journalism career with facts? Getting the wrong answers hasn't stopped the thousands of journalists in the past... 2006-04-09T08:44:46Z
Talking of kooks, David Horowitz is being very uncouth for someone who's pushing a movement to make academics more responsible. I'm glad this guy isn't my professor. 2006-04-08T23:15:10Z
Wonkette and friends seemed to be having fun. 2006-04-08T23:08:49Z
Tiktaalik: the creationist response 2006-04-08T23:00:32Z
Before this Tiktaalik thing, you believed it on faith!
We need to see more transitional fossils!
God put it here to confuse us!
The Bible says differently!
These so-called scientists are blinded by their materialist ideological orthodoxy!
I'm the Isaac Newton of information theory, goddamnit, listen to me!
Shut up, shut up, vote for who we say!
Irreducible! Complexity! No! Free! Lunch!
The Creationist Response: My Response 2006-04-08T23:12:50Z
Oh my, these people are fugging ignorant. Do I really want to write my dissertation on these kooks?
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.
