Tom Morris



2008.06.21

Another religious community offended by film. Anyone would think they had a choice in their media consumption. 2008-06-21T08:45:34ZUntitled entry permalink

Tech Liberation Front writes about the charade that is paperless tickets. One of the things which fails most about paperless tickets is that you cannot buy a ticket for another person. I had this recently - someone agreed to pay for a train ticket for me. But since you have to insert the credit card into the machine at the station to print the tickets, you can't actually let another person buy a ticket for you - rather, you have to pay for it with a credit card and then get someone else to give you the cash. Who designs these systems - Ayn Rand? 2008-06-21T08:44:36ZUntitled entry permalink

Read/WriteWeb reports that there is going to be an Obama-McCain debate on erratic microblogging service Twitter. Oh, wait, not Obama-McCain, but rather the online communications director of the Republican National committee and a professor at Georgetown University. Call me cynical and elitist if you like (and I hold my hands up for the former, and somewhat despair at the misunderstood nature of the latter), but I do not think that Twitter is the right place for this kind of thing. Twitter messages are good for a lot of things - debating presidential politics by proxy is not one of them. 2008-06-21T08:44:27ZUntitled entry permalink

 

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Tom Morris
Currently in: East Sussex, England
Usually in: East Sussex, United Kingdom
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I am a , an , like to code in and noodle about with and the . I also have a BA in philosophy from London, and am studying for an MA. My philosophical interests are in Victorian-era German philosophy, Kierkegaard, Robert Nozick, hermeneutics and current approaches to the demarcation problem in the philosophy of science. 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.

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