Category: Atheism

• 9 August 2008

  Interesting stuff for 2008-08-09

  Darwin’s theory of evolution was simple, beautiful, majestic and awe-inspiring [Charlie Brooker – The Guardian] “But because it contradicts the babblings of a bunch of made-up old books, it’s been under attack since day one. Had the Bible claimed gravity is caused by God pulling objects toward the ground with magic threads, we’d still be…
• 20 April 2008

  links for 2008-04-20

  A very generous write up of Nick and Patrick’s Semantic Web workshop [Tom Heath] “Perhaps as a publicly-funded organisation the BBC is obliged to be a good citizen of the Web of Data. I don’t get that impression I’m left with the feeling that this is a result of a bunch of guys really getting…
• 14 February 2008

  links for 2008-02-14

  Facebook – the “Hotel California” of Social Networks [hitherto.net] To opt out of any friend-related activity you need to delete those friendships. 375 mouse-clicks to remove 125 nodes on my “social graph”, plus more to dismiss the zombie crap, leave groups and close things down. Just the thought of it gives my brain R (tags:…