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	<body><outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.noliberties.com/&quot;&gt;Taking Liberties&lt;/a&gt; is a film that is being shown in London soon to try and shake people up and get them caring about their civil liberties. See also &lt;a href=&quot;http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/02/1849235&amp;from=rss&quot;&gt;Slashdot&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6705375.stm&quot;&gt;BBC News&lt;/a&gt;." created="Sat, 02 Jun 2007 22:47:53 GMT"/><outline text="Best Jyte claim ever: &lt;a href=&quot;http://jyte.com/cl/screwing-around-with-daylight-savings-time-has-all-of-the-paradoxes-of-time-travel-with-none-of-the-benefits&quot;&gt;Screwing around with daylight savings time has all of the paradoxes of time travel with none of the benefits.&lt;/a&gt; As you may have gathered, I &lt;a href=&quot;http://tommorris.org/blog/2007/04/04#When:12:30:45&quot;&gt;do not like daylight savings time&lt;/a&gt;." created="Sat, 02 Jun 2007 21:51:02 GMT"/><outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reevoo.com/blogs/bengriffiths/2007/06/02/list-of-things-i-learnt-at-reboot/&quot;&gt;Ben Griffiths&lt;/a&gt; has a list of things he learned at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reboot.dk/&quot;&gt;Reboot 9&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.simonho.org/images/Denmark/Copenhagen_Kierkegaard.jpg&quot;&gt;Copenhagen&lt;/a&gt;. Another thing that you should see (hear, rather) from Reboot is &lt;a href=&quot;http://crueltobekind.org/archive/2007-05-25/reboot_9_chris_locke&quot;&gt;Chris Locke's pre-conference talk with Nicole Simon&lt;/a&gt; - it absolutely rocks. People seem to like the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cjung.info/wordpress/?p=106&quot;&gt;micropresentations&lt;/a&gt; - this does not bode well for those of us trying to prepare slides for conferences (although pushing ourselves towards brevity ain't a bad goal, I fear it's only feeding the global hyperactive attention deficit laptop lout demon). Also &lt;a href=&quot;http://darjeelink.com/?p=8&quot;&gt;learning Danish in Second Life?&lt;/a&gt; That's worrying." created="Sat, 02 Jun 2007 21:22:04 GMT"/><outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thepaincomics.com/weekly041229.htm&quot;&gt;The Pain&lt;/a&gt; is a delightful comic comparing science and norse mythology (via &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/mikepk/statuses/87610912&quot;&gt;mikepk&lt;/a&gt;)." created="Sat, 02 Jun 2007 20:50:36 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Fantastic news from the Middle East - &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070602/ap_on_re_mi_ea/palestinians_broadcasters_threatened_1&quot;&gt;in Gaza City&lt;/a&gt; Islamic extremist group &quot;The Swords of Truth&quot; (a common evangelical reference to Jesus, btw) is threatening to cut off the heads of female news presenters: &quot;We will cut throats, and from vein to vein, if needed to protect the spirit and moral of this nation&quot;. Of course, this is just a non-representative minority that doesn't represent the Religion of Peace! Oh, if &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt; were so..." created="Sat, 02 Jun 2007 19:18:48 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.right-thinking.com/index.php/weblog/bet_on_bankruptcy/&quot;&gt;Lee&lt;/a&gt; on the 'BetOnSports' case: &quot;Anyone remember when conservatism was about commerce, individual liberty, and the free market?  Now it's about making sure that the population adheres to a strict moral code.  Gambling, from the privacy of your own home?  We can't have that now, can we?&quot; This whole situation is absurd." created="Sat, 02 Jun 2007 19:01:50 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dynamist.com/weblog/archives/002558.html&quot;&gt;Virginia Postrel&lt;/a&gt; says that the Dutch kidney reality show (&lt;i&gt;De Grote Donorshow&lt;/i&gt;) isn't happening - it was all a hoax. I guess my &lt;a href=&quot;http://tommorris.org/blog/2007/05/30#When:12:56:31&quot;&gt;opinion&lt;/a&gt; on the matter still stands though." created="Sat, 02 Jun 2007 18:53:31 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reason.com/news/show/120490.html&quot;&gt;Kerry Howley&lt;/a&gt; on the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act: &quot;The bill fails to tap into the huge potential of the &lt;abbr title=&quot;United States&quot;&gt;U.S.&lt;/abbr&gt; and developing world for mutual wealth creation; that's a potential employers and illegal immigrants will continue to discover themselves, outside the formal economy. Which means that wešll soon be having this debate again - and the biggest potential overhaul to immigration law since 1986, at 790 pages, is at most a prelude to the next reform.&quot;" created="Sat, 02 Jun 2007 16:42:18 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Church of England wants ID in UK schools" created="Sat, 02 Jun 2007 16:52:03 GMT">
			<outline text="You know that argument that Sam Harris et al. put forward about how the 'moderates' enable the fundamentalists? Well, &lt;a href=&quot;http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2093476,00.html&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; is a prime example of that - the Church of England now wants to teach &lt;abbr title=&quot;Intelligent Design&quot;&gt;ID&lt;/abbr&gt; in science. Only &lt;i&gt;history&lt;/i&gt; of science, mind. But why &lt;i&gt;ID&lt;/i&gt;? Is the last five years 'history of science'? Of course not. Is there any connection between the ID of Johnson and Behe and any meaningful conception of science? No, there isn't." created="Sat, 02 Jun 2007 16:49:37 GMT"/>
			<outline text="I propose we ought to have a new class called &quot;history of bad ideas&quot;. It would show children a number of bad ideas that people have had throughout the centuries. Of course, religious ideas like creationism and ID could be explained, along with astrology, psychoanalysis, phrenology, racism, Lysenkoism and other &quot;wishes before evidence&quot; theories of the world around us." created="Sat, 02 Jun 2007 16:52:23 GMT"/>
			<outline text="The problem with these 'history of ideas' type courses is that they can become propaganda tools. Look at how Newton's scientific credibility is pounced upon by religionists. How much of Newton's mysticism does anyone pay any attention to today? If Newton had spent his time only working on mysticism and religion, he'd be forgotten - it's his science which makes him a respectable figure within intellectual history." created="Sat, 02 Jun 2007 18:16:22 GMT"/>
			<outline text="The 'requirement' of Christianity for scientific advance is also absurd - some academics have suggested that Christianity was one of the conditions required for the scientific revolution to happen. Historically, that is probably so, but science and technology has happened all over the world. Christianity wasn't required for scientific advance in ancient China - in fact, it couldn't have been required because Christianity didn't exist at that point. The argument can be put on the other side for the scientific revolution, too. Why was it that in the early Middle Ages, science didn't happen at nearly the rate it did during the Enlightenment? Might it not have something to do with the strength of the Church and the dearth of non-clerical positions open to the educated populace (to say nothing of the fact that most people weren't actually educated)?" created="Sat, 02 Jun 2007 18:18:51 GMT"/>
			<outline text="Still, the Church of England has got itself in the papers again. Congratulations. I'm really looking forward to the end of this absurd institution. When is that finally going to happen?" created="Sat, 02 Jun 2007 18:28:05 GMT"/>
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