Monthly Archives: July 2007

Assorted Comedies

On the one hand, the New York Times reports on a porn star becoming an Episcopalian priest Fr. Rod Fontana has a certain ring to it, no? (UPDATE: It turns out this story is false in almost all the interesting … Continue reading Continue reading

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Don’t Feed the Boars

You might think that the moral of a story coming out of Sweden would be “Don’t feed the trolls”, but, no: according to the Hallands Post there is a problem with the wild boars that are re-establishing themselves in the … Continue reading Continue reading

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security horrors

Trillian, IE, and Firefox all turn out to be vulnerable to nasty attacks which will take some months to fix. I was particularly horrified by the fact that the authors have encoded an entire Google page into an URL — … Continue reading Continue reading

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Hitchens being silly

Michael Gersen, the man who coined the phrase “Axis of Evil”, had an op-ed defending religion in the Washington Post. There is the nice irony that if his beliefs are correct, the consequences of his wicked act will be worse … Continue reading Continue reading

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Philip Kitcher on Darwin

I think I put up a post saying, briefly, that Philip Kitcher’s Living with Darwin was a very good short book. Here is an extract answering a question that has often puzzled me – and, incidentally, suggesting why Dennett’s book … Continue reading

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Reading from left to right

Blair, Bush, Brown — the San Francisco Chronicle captures the essence of our position. Continue reading

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Make yourself smarter

Listen to this documentary next Wednesday, on Neurogenesis. It’s what Louise and I were up to in the States in May. Continue reading

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Mistah Kurtz – he back – this time as farce!

I have had to read Sam Harris’ book "The End of Faith" for a project I am doing. My (then) publisher urged a proof copy on my in 2004, saying that I should see what was being said about religion. … Continue reading Continue reading

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In wholly unrelated news

The civil servant responsible for Swedish government policy on mobile phones is called Urban Landmark Continue reading

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Jesus H F Christ

Good luck to the Wall Street Journal: here is the news from another part of Murdoch empire. Is there, really, any term for this propaganda but “fascist”? via Larry Moran Continue reading

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