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TGD – begging the question
Many of the arguments pro-religious belief presented in TGD would form a nice corpus in a dictionary of critical analysis for the entry on "begging the question". However, Prof. Dawkins studiously avoids the phrase despite its rampant, repeated and some … Continue reading
TGD – I’m not dead yet!
The title of this article is a quote from Monty Python and the Holy Grail – the body cart comes around the town to collect up the (presumably leprous) corpses, and along comes John Cleese with his ninepence and his … Continue reading
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TGD – religion leaving the gene pool
If there was some kind of selection pressure which favoured, even in a roundabout way, predisposition toward religion, and if sexual selection naturally favours successful people (or those who exude success, anyway), then we have a (not too serious) quandary. … Continue reading
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TGD Responses – selection for religion?
I’m going to do a few articles based on The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. As this is a bit of a departure from the usual content of yon blog, I’ll be sure to prefix the titles of each with … Continue reading
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e[Mac]s keyboard
It’s about time someone made a UNIX keyboard for the Mac. I still love my Tactile Pro, and have obviously configured the caps lock key as an additional Control, but that key doesn’t feel like the same buckling spring as … Continue reading
Blasty from the pasty
Yesterday I had a little problem with the iBook, which was saved by some age-old knowledge from before the OS X release. Almost. When I use an external USB mouse, I disable the internal trackpad. Now I wanted to take … Continue reading
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One reason multiple inheritance sucks
So I’m reviewing a book, and it happens to cover the way method lookups are performed in a particular language’s object model. I’m not going to say what the book is because it’s not relevant, and nothing discussed here has … Continue reading
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if ([self isKindOfClass:[whore class]]) [self promote];
Bottom of the page, under Media Reviews. I’ve got another couple of review copies sat here, too…
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We’re off to see the Wozzard….
So, they said that Steve Wozniak would be there, and that he’d be signing books. So I took my book to be signed. That wasn’t wrong, was it? N.B.: yes, I bought a copy of iWoz and had that signed … Continue reading
I feel sorry for…
The people credited with bringing GNUstep support to OCUnit a few versions back (at least one of whom I recognise as a competent programmer who really knows what they’re doing), as the current version just won’t work at all ;-). … Continue reading
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