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<dateCreated>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:29:08 GMT</dateCreated>
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<body><outline text="Okay, there is one reasonably neat feature about Yahoo! Mash. You can tag yourself. I've just added a whole batch of BarCamps and the such which I've been to. &lt;a href=&quot;http://mash.yahoo.com/tom.morris&quot; rel=&quot;me&quot;&gt;Have a gander&lt;/a&gt;. It doesn't use rel-tag though..." created="Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:38:58 GMT"/>
<outline text="Default Settings" created="Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:29:08 GMT"><outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.43folders.com/2007/08/21/vox-pop-what-default-settings-would-you-change&quot;&gt;Merlin Mann&lt;/a&gt; has a post asking people to describe what 'default settings' they'd change in software.&#13;" created="Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:29:08 GMT"/><outline text="&#13;" created="Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:29:08 GMT"/><outline text="First setting I'd change is the default browser in Windows from Internet Explorer to Firefox.&#13;" created="Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:29:08 GMT"/><outline text="&#13;" created="Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:29:08 GMT"/><outline text="I would switch encryption on in all e-mail and IM clients, and have 4,096-bit GPG encryption setup by default. Unless you told it not to it would send it encrypted to the recipient.&#13;" created="Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:29:08 GMT"/><outline text="&#13;" created="Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:29:08 GMT"/><outline text="All e-mail clients would be set to do bottom-post quoting only. It would reject the mail if you tried to top post it." created="Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:29:08 GMT"/></outline><outline text="Yahoo! Mash: social networking eats itself" created="Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:28:48 GMT"><outline text="Guy West sent me an invite for &lt;a href=&quot;http://mash.yahoo.com&quot; rev=&quot;vote-against&quot;&gt;Yahoo! Mash&lt;/a&gt;. It really is a bit crap. I cannot see the point in it &lt;em&gt;at all&lt;/em&gt;. It's basically MySpace that's been scrubbed up enough to shove through the W3C HTML and CSS validator. Beyond that the pages validate, there's not much nice I can say.&#13;" created="Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:28:48 GMT"/><outline text="&#13;" created="Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:28:48 GMT"/><outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://uk.blognation.com/2007/09/15/ymash-yet-another-social-network-why-indeed/&quot;&gt;Sam Sethi&lt;/a&gt; says it's supposed to be some kind of attention aggregation lifestream thing. Sorry, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com&quot; rev=&quot;vote-for&quot;&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://jaiku.com&quot; rev=&quot;vote-for&quot;&gt;Jaiku&lt;/a&gt; (and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.plazes.com&quot;&gt;Plazes&lt;/a&gt; and Google Reader!) do it better.&#13;" created="Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:28:48 GMT"/><outline text="&#13;" created="Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:28:48 GMT"/><outline text="It's not going to attract the kids from MySpace or Facebook. They are pretty much there involuntarily for the long haul, just as they are on MSN Messenger for the long-haul - because that's where their friends are. And Yahoo! already have a social platform - Groups, Answers, Messenger.&#13;" created="Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:28:48 GMT"/><outline text="&#13;" created="Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:28:48 GMT"/><outline text="If Yahoo! wants to build a social platform, take some of the things they have already on their site and make them social 'objects' for use. What? Well, things like TV and News - both strong Yahoo properties. Don't just give me TV listings, show me what shows my friends are interested in. You've already got a ton of this data on Flickr. Flickr is a social network with a purpose - sharing photos. Build stuff around it. Let me go to Flickr, say &quot;share my friends list with other Yahoo! services&quot; and then when I go to Yahoo's TV site, it would show it to me based on what my Flickr friends find interesting. Add comments to the TV listings. Because, to be frank, the TV listings and Flickr are the only bit of Yahoo! I ever use.&#13;" created="Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:28:48 GMT"/><outline text="&#13;" created="Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:28:48 GMT"/><outline text="This would be a lot more useful than yet another dull social network competing for the MySpace market. Mash does have some really nice JavaScript effects backed up with Ajax where appropriate. Editing your profile requires very few page refreshes. That's kinda neat. Unfortunately, JavaScript cannot save a site. Pointless is still pointless regardless of how well implemented it's XMLHTTPRequest objects are. And Yahoo! Mash is just that: pointless." created="Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:28:48 GMT"/></outline><outline text="Creationists and Catholics in America" created="Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:27:08 GMT"><outline text="&quot;One of the main harms inflicted against science is to limit it to experimental and physical sciences; this harm occurs even though it extends far beyond this scope.&quot;&#13;" created="Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:27:08 GMT"/><outline text="&#13;" created="Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:27:08 GMT"/><outline text="&quot;Realities of the world are not limited to physical realities. And the material is just a shadow of supreme realities, and physical creation is just one of the stories of the creation of the world. Human being is just an example of the creation that is a combination of the material and the spirit.&quot;&#13;" created="Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:27:08 GMT"/><outline text="&#13;" created="Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:27:08 GMT"/><outline text="No, it's not a Discovery Institute press release - it's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/hourlyupdate/202820.php&quot; rev=&quot;vote-against&quot;&gt;Mahmoud Ahmadinejad&lt;/a&gt; giving a science lesson at Columbia University (via &lt;a href=&quot;http://recursed.blogspot.com/2007/09/discovery-institutes-latest-fellow.html&quot; rev=&quot;vote-for&quot;&gt;Jeffrey Shallit&lt;/a&gt;).&#13;" created="Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:27:08 GMT"/><outline text="&#13;" created="Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:27:08 GMT"/><outline text="There is some good news on the religion front though. &lt;a href=&quot;http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2007/09/molestation_covered_by_ministe.php&quot; rev=&quot;vote-for&quot;&gt;Ed Brayton&lt;/a&gt; has covered the story of how the courts in Rhode Island have decided that the Catholic Church does not have the right under the free exercise clause to shield it's population of child rapists in robes from criminal prosecution. Of course, without the guiding power of the Catholic Church, &lt;em&gt;how will we stop people from raping children?!&lt;/em&gt;&#13;" created="Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:27:08 GMT"/><outline text="&#13;" created="Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:27:08 GMT"/><outline text="I've said it before and I'll say it again. If a multi-national company, trade union or government department acted in the way that the Catholic Church has done over allegations of child rape, there would be significantly more outrage. Religion has been a deciding factor in letting the Church of the hook for covering up the misdeeds of it's priests. The fact that the Church's lawyers are arguing that co-operating with the investigation of child rapists in their midst is an infringement to their freedom of religious expression &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be a nail in the coffin of this ridiculous, immoral institution.&#13;" created="Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:27:08 GMT"/><outline text="&#13;" created="Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:27:08 GMT"/><outline text="The fact that the State of Rhode Island has decided that covering up child rape is not a valid part of religious free expression means that there is at least some sanity remaining on the benches of the judiciary.&#13;" created="Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:27:08 GMT"/><outline text="&#13;" created="Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:27:08 GMT"/><outline text="As Diderot put it: &quot;Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.&quot; Ain't it the truth?" created="Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:27:08 GMT"/></outline></body>
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