Tom Morris: 2009-03-16

2009.03.16

Ian Forrester found an excellent video from Samsung that eschews advertising in favour of just being very nerdy. 2009-03-16T09:58:25Z

So, yes, SXSW is on. And I'm not there. I'd like to be, but I'm too busy sleeping, eating, programming and writing essays about the fundamental nature of reality. I'm also not sure I have the energy to be around so many geeks and social media types. I mean, seriously. I'm not sure why the organisers of SXSW haven't started crowd-sourcing that information. Just put up a wiki page called "How To Be Cool At SXSW" and let people go at it. 2009-03-16T08:50:40Z

Frances Berriman has a list of the reasons why Wired State was awesome. I agree. The selectiveness of the event was important, I think, and part of the reason I wrote In defense of modest elitism. 2009-03-16T08:39:54Z

What's the best way to deal with the presence of the Westboro Baptist Church? Parade around in bathrobes, simulating anal sex to the tune of "I'm Coming Out" by Diana Ross and the Supremes. Other people's ignorance and Biblical-level stupidity is always a good reason to engage in lulz. 2009-03-16T08:33:22Z

To celebrate 20 years of the Web on Friday, here is a Semantic Web Layer Cake made out of cake. Awesome or what? 2009-03-16T08:28:31Z

There's an excellent article on John Mortimer by Christopher Hitchens. 2009-03-16T08:27:56Z

It looks like SXSW Interactive 2009 has been overrun by social media types. We need to formulate a strategy to save the world from social media parasites. 2009-03-16T08:24:52Z

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Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org

Currently in: East Sussex, England

Usually in: East Sussex, United Kingdom

AIM: tommorris
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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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