2006.08.19
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Londonist has links to four different audio walks around London, two of which are free. 2006-08-19T22:03:06Z
Pat Hayes: "the great thing about Discovery is that you don't need to say false or slanderous things about them. They helpfully supply enough raw material that simply quoting Discovery's fellows -- for whom self-parody seems to have evolved into a high art -- is enough to hold them up to richly deserved public ridicule. In that sense, a Discovery Institute parody site is simply redundant." 2006-08-19T22:00:46Z
Amy, I think that the success the PMN has had is that it's merged the small and indy with a handful of smart music business people. We build tools - sometimes we build them really well, sometimes we don't. From Adam's shows, he's been saying that they have people at Podshow who actively recruit the big name musicians. Somehow I don't think that it was James Brown or the guys from Deep Purple saying "let's put our music up on Podshow". It was Podshow saying "how cool would it be to have James Brown on the site? Let's get him on board". 2006-08-19T21:56:05Z
While I was blogless the other day, I tried out Dapper. Very cool. 2006-08-19T21:54:23Z
User-generated content isn't always the best advert. And thus, another reason not to get a PS3 - the inability of product advocates to construct coherent sentences. 2006-08-19T21:46:11Z
You know what happens to atheists? Their opponents - religious people - do what religious people do best - make stuff up. That's why there's so many myths about us. As for our lives being cold? No, it's a little too hot. That's why I tried to build my own air conditioner a couple of weeks ago. 2006-08-19T21:34:23Z
Apple needs to actually make .Mac good, rather than copying MySpace (cute picture though). 2006-08-19T21:32:40Z
Bill Hanage has a review of last month's Skeptics in the Pub with Steve Fuller. 2006-08-19T21:27:00Z
Just found an interesting new blog called Unreality TV. It allows you to be all hip and cool with what's going on in (British) reality television without actually having to watch it. 2006-08-19T19:10:55Z
We are now back! If you are having trouble with your OPML blog, just hit File > Update opml.root. The server has changed from support.opml.org to rpc.opml.org. Amyloo has the full details. 2006-08-19T18:50:07Z
Testing the new server? Hello hello? Can I have some Jell-O? 2006-08-19T13:12:54Z
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Photoshop matte painting
A photoshop tutorial explaining how to take a nice New England townhouse and turn it in to an Addams Family-style mansion of death. (del.icio.us recommended tags? ajax and web2.0)
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Literary Existentialism: Existentialist Thought in Literature and Art
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Christian Existentialism: Existentialist Thought & Christian Beliefs
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Atheism & Existentialism: Existentialist Philosophy and Atheistic Thought
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Angst: Dread, Anxiety, and Anguish - Themes and Ideas in Existentialist Thought
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.
