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The New Atheist’ Foghorn

As I’ve commented before about fundamentalism - it doesn’t matter who the fundamentalist is.  Whenever an individual or group know beyond reasonable doubt that they are right then they become judgemental and dangerous to the rest of us.  This includes - in no particular order - Islamic, Anarchist, Anti-Capitalist, Socialist, Christian and New Atheist viewpoints.  [...]

google local search

I like Google.  For some dangerously optimistic reason they are still in the ‘can do no evil’ box in my life.  My e-mail goes through them (at home, and quite shortly at work), I read blogs, store documents, count blog readers, chat, navigate the world and of course search the web using Google’s various product [...]

A little bit of legend

From 1996 though until 1998 I attended Hills Road Sixth Form College in Cambridge.  During that time I studied for five A-levels, took 4 A-levels, learnt how to party, partied, and plotted a legendary prank.
We were inspired by some Cambridge engineering students who had, the story went, placed a car on top of a university [...]

The chemistry of weddings

Ok ok.  I’ve been a little slack on the posting every day thing.  No excuses.  Onwards.
This last weekend I was at a wedding and I’m beginning to get good at these things now.  I reckon that within the next few I will actually start to get round to buying gifts and cards before the wedding. [...]

Perfectionism vs. Perfectionism

For some reason I’m not perfect.  Oh wait - that’s it, being perfect is impossible.
The textbook definition of perfectionism describes a “refusal to accept any standard short of perfection“.  Wikipedia quotes the more relaxed neo-Aristotelean Thomas Hurka:
This moral theory starts from an account of the good life, or the intrinsically desirable life. And it characterizes this life [...]