Category: links

Open Tech 2008 – 5th July in London. The previous OpenTech conference (in 2005) was a lot of fun. I’ll definitely be there. (tags: events london opentech) rsync.net – Secure Offsite Backups, Offsite Data Storage and Remote Encrypted Filesystems, Offsite Backup A recent disk crash (luckily not as fatal as it could have been) means… Continue reading links for 2008-02-21

‘Fleabytes’ by Paula Kirby – RichardDawkins.net Excellent atheist review of four of the christian books published in response to “The God Delusion”. (tags: dawkins thegoddelusion atheism religion toread)

31 Days to Building a Better Blog Interesting tips on improving your blog. (tags: blogging advice howto tips)

Город после извержения вулкана — постъядерный мир, катаклизмы, города-призраки, зомби на deadland.ru Wish I spoke Russian. This seems to be an article about Montserrat (or, at least, its capital Plymouth). It links to one of the photos I took at Christmas 2006. (tags: usingmyphotos montserrat plymouth photos) RNLI: Clacton-on-Sea History A history of the Clacton-on-Sea… Continue reading links for 2008-02-18

Max, 19, hits the road | Travelog | Guardian Unlimited Guardian gives blog space to Guardian travel writer’s son as he travels for his gap year. Guardian readers supremely unimpressed. (tags: guardian blog travel nepotism media journalism)

‘I will give £36 to a fund to hire the services of an ex-cabinet minister’ – PledgeBank It seems that for £36,000, you can buy the services of an ex-cabinet minister like Jack Cunningham who will arrange meetings with the government for you. I call that a bargain. Justin is looking for 1000 people to… Continue reading links for 2008-02-15

The Hacker’s Diet It’s probably time to take another look at this. (tags: diet health nutrition geek fitness)

Those Daily Express migrant arrest statistics in full – currybetdotnet – 12 February, 2008 Martin has some fun with the Daily Express and statistics. (tags: dailyexpress tabloid newspapers media statistics currybet) 90 Day Jane Jane says she is going to kill herself in 90 days, because she’s an atheist and life has no purpose. I… Continue reading links for 2008-02-13

Further particulars: Charles Simonyi Professorship in the Public Understanding of Science The University of Oxford are looking for applicants for the Charles Simonyi Professorship in the Public Understanding of Science. This is currently Richard Dawkins’ post, but he’s retiring from it in September 2008. Tough act to follow. (tags: dawkins oxford professor simonyi university) ‘Charles… Continue reading links for 2008-02-12

On the Origin of Species | Science | guardian.co.uk The Guardian seems to be a year early in celebrating both Darwin’s bicentenary and the 150th anniversary of the publication of the Origin of Species. Interesting stuff though. (tags: guardian darwin evolution originofspecies anniversary biology science) Neil Gaiman – Neil Gaiman’s Journal: The Birthday Thing To… Continue reading links for 2008-02-11