by Tom | Apr 21, 2010 | Personal, Reading
A lengthy, but interesting article covering the effort that Rowan Williams is expending to prevent the Anglican church from schisming over gay and / or female bishops. There is a great counter argument to the “It is the tradition of the church”: so was...
by Tom | Apr 21, 2010 | Government, Personal
Nice to see lots of information being made public during the process of refreshing Camden’s customer-facing website. Normally this would be written up at the end in a gushing or arse-covering manner. Sharing the detail of the process actually makes it useful for...
by Tom | Apr 20, 2010 | Personal
Hitchens makes a strong case for us seriously considering arresting the Pope. Johan Hari makes a slightly more shouty one (at 3 minutes in). Dawkins has some stupdly ad-hominem comments (“leering old villain in a frock” is a classic quote, but...
by Tom | Apr 16, 2010 | Business, Personal
I sincerely hope that the various pieces of copyright legislation under development across the world are simply the death throes of dying industries. I don’t want to be part of the world they are attempting to bring about (Cory Doctorow in the Grauniad). Rule...
by Tom | Apr 7, 2010 | Personal, Science
The restriction granted by the BRCA1 gene patent covers essentially everyone. Hopefully this ridiculosity will help overturn other gene patents. How does a string of nucleotides extant in the human body count as a process, design or new invention?I wonder if Ben...
by Tom | Apr 7, 2010 | Government, Personal
So we’re off for a general election. Journalists are delighted because 1) they can see a month’s worth of reasonable-to-good headlines and 2) that they can genuinely influence the political process thanks to exposing gaffes, slip-ups and spin and changing...
