Tom Morris: 2006-09-16

2006.09.16

There's only one thing that comes to mind when I read this - a storm looms over silly street. Just imagine the Pope and Osama bin Laden arguing. It'd be like watching two high-security mental patients going at it. 2006-09-17T01:35:55Z

Perhaps someone who is more JavaScript/DOM inclined should write a Greasemonkey script that would ask you for confirmation in case you accidentally click on an Amazon Unbox 1-click link. You know what would be good though? If you bought the DVD, while you wait for the delivery, you could watch a streaming version online - it would make it a great impulse buying tool. It would be nice, though, if we could have a little bit of translation - "it's against our policy" really means "fuck you, we don't care". 2006-09-17T00:34:42Z

Reason Magazine have a great interview Kirby Dick who has produced a documentary on the failings of the MPAA's rating system. I've said nasty stuff about alternative rating systems, but however silly the alternatives are, the MPAA's rating system really sucks. As does the BBFC - our version of the MPAA rating system. 2006-09-16T19:23:53Z

I'm just on the phone to AppleCare (again). The connector for my MagSafe power adapter is falling apart after only a few months of not-at-all-excessive use. Apple really needs to spend more on QA and testing - the hardware they've sent out to people this year has been shockingly sub-par. 2006-09-16T14:32:55Z

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Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org

Currently in: Kent, England

Usually in: East Sussex, England

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.

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