Well, I tried setting up the deli.icio.us cross poster (again), but it keeps crashing on me, so here's my linkspam of the last day or so redone with stripped html-sorry about some of the weirdness.New Statesman - Richard Reeves

Wrote the bio of JS Mill I'm currently reading, which means I like him already. Very interesting set of columns, well ( Read more... )

Bah, I see it's getting close to That time of year again. You know the one, the traditional pagan/secular festival that got hijacked by some Roman religion, and people are complaining about attacks on a misperceived majority faith that this poll showed us you lot don't really believe much either. But it did show that most of us are "culturally ( Read more... )

BBC - Radio 4 - Word of Mouth

Talking about the origins and usage of memes.

ETA:It's finished, he was on for about 5 minutes at the beginning, and it's available on listen again. He got the word from the Greek word mymeme(sp?) apparently, and seemingly approves of the usage in quiz memes-it's become a meme in its own right, but thinks it might ( Read more... )

Charlie Brooker in Saturday's Guardian: "Spirituality" is what cretins have in place of imagination. If you've ever described yourself as "quite spiritual", do civilisation a favour and punch yourself in the throat until you're incapable of speaking aloud ever again. Why should your outmoded codswallop be treated with anything other than the ( Read more... )

Reasons to love Boris pt xvii:What would you do if you were God for a day? CHRIS LANDONIS, Hackney

I think I would try a bit harder to prove My existence to Richard Dawkins.
Actually, that's not why I love this article. It's this: Are education standards slipping in Britain? RICHARD MORRIS, Luton ( Read more... )

I've been tagged, twice, to do a meme. I'm in a meh mood, and my anarchist tendencies are objecting to be told what to do, which is daft, as I normally just get on with them.

So rather than doing the meme now, I thought I'd ask your general opinion ( by polling it good. )

Dawkins, who coined the word, said: Examples of memes are tunes, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches.
It doesn't have to be an online quiz, it doesn't need to be a set of questions, it's an idea, a saying, that is passed on, person to person, until everyone has heard it or read it. I have a new one. Well, ( Read more... )

My friends, a momentous occasion has come upon us. It is time, my friends, to join a new religion. I find this great new scheme has already been found in the mass media, and in this glorious interview he reveals himself: Our pub quiz team is named The Church of Richard Dawkins. At a recent Oxford quiz night, we were told to change our name in case ( Read more... )

OK, in my bio, the bit that says I don't need broadband? I stand by it, I don't. But, well, staying at nadriel's does have one advantage, we've netweorked up and he has a 7.5 Mbs connection. I mean, the exchange in Paignton can only manage 2.5Mbs for our business line, he has 3 times that all to himself ( Read more... )

There's nothing wrong witht he code that caused the last post to mess up completely, at least not that I can see. Ah well, deleted the offending meme ( Read more... )