Test post 8 Apr 2010 Nothing to see here. Move along. I’m testing some new features. Do not play Mornington Crescent in the comments. Administrative Philosophy Administrative
Administrative News from Ediacara 27 Oct 2008 The Ediacaran period is the era between around 635Mybp and 540Mybp, just before the Cambrian. You pronounce it “ed-ee-ack-a-ran”. It is also the name of a new blog by the inimitable Chris Nedin, erstwhile paleontologist who specialised in the Ediacaran fauna before joining the Dark Side (federal public service) in… Read More
Administrative The Bastards are emerging 17 Jul 2010 We have now had three posts on Opinionated Bastards . Lorax on grant funding, Mike Haubrich on why religion and science are incompatible on an inductive inference, and now Eamon Knight on why pedophile priests and women priests are equivalent in the eyes of the Vatican. Stay tuned for more… Read More
Chocosophy Zombies and chocolate: what it is like to eat a block 17 Jul 20126 Feb 2013 Zombies are very much in the news lately. People are using them as a way to teach science. However, long before the scientists caught up with the trends, philosophy had been discussing zombies after the question of whether there are philosophical zombies (P-zombies) was raised by Saul Kripke in 1972,… Read More
Whitechapel? WHITECHAPEL?? From Marble Arch? In my day a move like that would have caused unrest. Since we’re clearly not at home to a well controlled elevator: Redbridge. Louis
Oh, very well since we are playing with the limited,and some would say criminal, Australian Pub rules: Totenham Hale
You fools! Don’t you see, Wilkins is trying to get you to play Mornington Crescent in order to divert you from his evil plan to take over the intertubes!
Of course! It’s like Captain Kirk causing a rogue computer to seize by getting it to compute the value of pi. A runaway Mornington Crescent would draw in ever more resources until anything inside the event horizon at Chesham would be sucked irresistibly down a Blackfriars hole.
Nah, if he was really doing that he’d insist on the Whitehead & Russell 1927 rules with the Epimenides variation.
The first rule about Mornington Crescent is that you don’t talk about…….Oh that’s something else, is it?