The paperback edition of The God Delusion is published next week. This edition has a new preface which Dawkins uses to respond to some of the common criticisms that have been leveled at the book. Normally I’d find it far too tempting to by the paperback just to read this. But happily, the article was… Continue reading Dawkins Responds to Critics
Author: Dave Cross
Relative Values
Of course, it’s terrible that Madeleine McCann remains missing over a week after she disappeared. And we’d all like to see her returned to her family as soon as possible. But let’s not forget that Alan Johnston is also still missing. And he’s been missing a lot longer than Madeleine. For some reason you don’t… Continue reading Relative Values
Shiny New Things
Looks like it’s quite the day for shiny new things. Google Analytics has had a major redesign too.
New Look Guardian Web Site
The Guardian has released a new version of the front page of its web site. Apparently it’s the first indication of things to come. My initial impression is that I like it, but I’ll almost certainly have more to say once I’ve lived with it for a few days. Emily Bell goes into more detail… Continue reading New Look Guardian Web Site
Plagarism
I few weeks ago, I wrote an article that briefly reviewed a few Balham restaurants. This morning I found that entire article reposted on another site. Now, I don’t mind people reposting my articles. I license all of this blog under a Creative Commons licence that allows them to do just that. But I do… Continue reading Plagarism
Greatest Living Briton
The Sun is searching for the greatest living Briton. Apparently that would be “the ultimate accolade”, though I don’t really understand how being the seen as the greatest living Briton would be a greater accolade than, say, being the greatest Briton of all time. All in all, it’s typical Sun nonsense. At least they included… Continue reading Greatest Living Briton
Happy Star Wars Day
May the Fourth be with you!
No Linking Allowed
The clue to the usefulness of the world wide web is in its name. It’s a web. You click on links to follow your thread through many different sites. A well constructed site will expose precise web accessible addresses for all of its content. Occasionally you’ll hear about a site (generally a large corporate site)… Continue reading No Linking Allowed
Ten Years On
What were you doing ten years ago today? I was still a member of the Labour party back then, so I took the day off and did some canvassing for them. I think I spent a lot of the day standing outside the polling station collecting polling numbers from people as they voted. And I… Continue reading Ten Years On
Daylight Exacerbates Warning
Andy Lester has scanned a letter from the Arkansas Democrat Gazette You may have noticed that March this year was particularly hot. As a matter of fact, I understand that it was the hottest March since the beginning of the last century. All of the trees were fully leafed out and legions of bugs and… Continue reading Daylight Exacerbates Warning