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This is a call to arms
This is what's known in the real world as a cheap attempt to harvest readers who may have fallen off the wagon.
My new blog is up and running (and lovely) at http://www.dougalstanton.net/blog and I'm welcoming you because you haven't been reading it.
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Ah, sarcasm...
On Dumbledore:What? What?! You're telling us the courtly old British gentleman who never got married and who always dressed in purple and lavender robes was... gay?!
No! No, I refuse to believe it! It simply can't be true!
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This is a spiritual awakening, friends.
A friend of mine has decided to set up a religion based upon the teachings of that 80s classic, Top Gun. Think of the quality!
- The quotability of the KJV. “This is what I call a target-rich environment.”
- Shares prophets with other religions, just like the Abrahamic faiths. In this case, we share Tom Cruise with Scientology.
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Formula for everything - not quite!
In a strange rejection of the tabloid-journalism headlines where "scientists find formula for X", today's Metro reports on Formula One drivers not having a formula for success. I can't cope. -
Reducing the barrier to contributing
It just took me three days to commit a couple of patches to [xmonad] (http://xmonad.org/) because
it wasn’t obvious what I should commit. My change was ( Read more... )
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Uri Geller: as crazy as they come
Sometimes the semantic gap between UK and American English provides great comedy. And let’s face it, no-one deserves to be mocked more than Uri Geller.
The spoon-bending fraud has crawled out of the woodwork again with a new TV series in the US, modelled on a similar series he did for Israeli TV. The show is called Phenomenon and ( Read more... ) -
Dispatches from the fight against the endarkenment
I wrote this post about a month ago but never posted it. It was written just between the broadcast of the first and second episodes of Dawkins’ The Enemies of Reason programme. I have yet to see the second episode, even after all this time.
But I thought I might as well post this; it was either that or ( Read more... )
