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August 29, 2005 | Links
Forget evolution and Creationism - I’m all for the newest theory of Intelligent Design - FSMism
We have evidence that a Flying Spaghetti Monster created the universe. None of us, of course, were around to see it, but we have written accounts of it.
They have as much proof as the Creationists so there is no reason not to teach it in schools…
Letting the religious right teach Intelligent Design in schools is like letting the Marines teach poetry in advanced combat training. As a scientist, I see these the relevancy between the two sets to be equal. If Kansas is going to mess up like this, the least it can do is not be hypocritical and allow equal time for other alternative “theories” like FSMism, which is by far the tastier choice.
Before I continue I’m going to give some warning for those who still haven’t read the Harry Potter books. If, like me, you like to be surprised when you read something new - leave now
This post is a follow on from my earlier Harry Potter theory about RAB.
So, let’s start with the obvious…
Is Dumbledore really dead?
There are people who seem to think that Dumbledore hasn’t died and is actually still alive and kicking. I disagree. Whilst the arguments on sites like DumbledoreIsNotDead.com appear to be based in truth, they could be reversed to explain that yes, he has gone.
There is a book called ‘The Hero with a Thousand Faces’ - you can read a decent summary here - which explains the hero’s journey, also known as a monomyth. Essentially what this is, is a template for heroic adventure; a structure that heroic stories generally follow.
Often …
August 28, 2005 | Links
Weekly Standards: Featured Site: Download.com - [via]
Download.com has recently been totally redesigned. As someone who has a number of games on their site I find the redesign very interesting. I found out about the redesign a couple of weeks ago, and a few days ago the Weekly Standards, posted an inside view of the redesign.
Visually the new design is rather nice, unfortunately it now takes you more clicks to get to the games listings, which isn’t so good (for developers at least). The huge page dimensions, and ridiculous file size (the homepage is 300k+) is going to put off a few people, although I suspect their core audience are on broadband with reasonable systems so it shouldn’t be a huge problem.
What is the world coming to when the cutest most family friendly company in the world, Nintendo, stoops to do something as low as this. After all the controversy surrounding the Hot Coffee mod found in Grand Theft Auto someone has gone and found a hack in Nintendos latest game, Nintendogs.
Check out a screen shot of the Hot Biscuit Mod
August 25, 2005 | General
Packing up to leave work the other day there was a bit of commotion outside the office window. We went over to investigate and found that a flat opposite us appeared to be on fire. We saw at least three fire engines go past and everything seemed to be under control fairly quickly. From where we were there wasn’t any fire visible, but there was an awful lot of smoke. One of my work colleagues who takes his camera literally everywhere snapped off a few piccies so I’ve added one below.
Hopefully everyone was alright.
August 24, 2005 | Links
Yet another Google related post. They’ve just released a beta of their new product, Google Talk
I have downloaded it and will try it in the minute, but I’m not sure how often I will use the thing. I already have Trillian and Skype installed and don’t want to add even more to my startup menu.
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