Tom Morris: 2006-11-21

2006.11.21

Nick Gillespie has the story on how Tony Blair is sending out a "hit-squad" of "Supernannies". Whether or not they are going to be followed by the peering eyes of reality television cameras has yet to be seen. 2006-11-21T17:40:56Z

Ed Brayton: "For some reason, the Vatican thinks that religious beliefs, unlike all other beliefs, should be granted government protection from all criticism and ridicule and that people who dare to offend a religious person should be thrown in jail." 2006-11-21T17:34:32Z

PZ: "A meeting that is denounced by a spokesman from the Templeton Foundation is my kind of place." 2006-11-21T17:31:30Z

XML can be used for evil as this Daily WTF points out - CSV inside a CDATA inside an XML node. 2006-11-21T17:24:42Z

Some petitions for you: "Stop using the threat of terror to pass laws that are illiberal and ineffective", "remove cannabis and cannabis products from the Misuse of Drugs Act and associated laws", "legalise cannabis", "call for the cancellation of the London Olympics" and "retire the Monarchy". Sign away, UK folks. 2006-11-21T15:23:29Z

Dave Cross has it bang on about the Daily Mail's coverage of the BA 'cross' story. I hope BA fire this woman and any of these other religious types who think that their superstition puts them above and beyond the rules which all other employees of a company have to follow. Good on you, BA, for sticking your neck out to fight for employer's rights - next time I fly to the U.S., I'll definitely be flying BA. I hate your policy on in-air photography, but this is well worth it. I'm sure that if God dislikes BA's sinfulness, he'll suddenly strike down all the British Airways planes from the sky. 2006-11-21T14:25:11Z

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Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org

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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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