Category Archives: Technology

by | October 6, 2011

The Eternal Beachball

The mouseover text is poignant…

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by | October 6, 2011

Steve Jobs: My part in his success

Steve Jobs is dead, and with him a unique episode in technology. I have a slight part in his rise to dominance. In 1982, I was working as a compositor and layout artist – making pages for local government magazines and a … Continue reading →

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by | February 18, 2011

Repost: What actually *is* design?

This is a repost from my old site, with corrections. I will be back properly online next week, I hope. I’ve been wondering of late what it is that is explained when something is called “designed”.

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by | October 28, 2010

Gatesgate

In a move I deeply sympathise with, Anthony Fejes has left Nature Network because they have given Microsoft employees blogs. However, his reason is that Microsoft is deeply unethical. Mine would be, that shit almost never works. The main reason … Continue reading →

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by | October 17, 2010

A link to a kill

I have finished my lecture for tomorrow early! So linkies!

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by | August 4, 2010

The Evil Links I

Why are there more Christian congregations where there is more crime? On Quasispecies; Abbie notes an open source paper in FEBS on viral quasispecies. I worry that it fails to attend to the work of Sergey Gavrilets on holey landscapes, … Continue reading →

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Filed under Biology, Censorship, Ecology and Biodiversity, Evolution, Links, Politics, Pop culture, Religion, Social evolution, Species concept, Technology

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by | August 4, 2010

Pundit parody

Australia doesn’t have lunatics of the calibre of the white supremacist Glenn Beck, at least, not on the media, but we have sufficient punditry to fuel a small nation all right. Idiots like Alan Jones, who incited a racial riot, … Continue reading →

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by | June 24, 2010

The Link Purple

Quite a few links today…

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by | May 17, 2010

Demons!

Doing the rounds are complaints. All sorts of complaints. Steve Jobs is controlling. Child porn is everywhere and will eat your children. Games on computers are destroying the moral fabric. And now Facebook is a threat to your safety. Take … Continue reading →

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by | April 27, 2010

Network censorship by Apple

Everyone who knows me knows I am a Steve Jobs fanboi. I’ve been using Macs since January 1985, and yes, I have an iPhone and I will buy an iPad once I have the cash and they get to a … Continue reading →

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