Turns out my mum’s cousin Bill is making some really good music in a duo called Funkspiel, and you can listen to their stuff on their myspace page. It’s very like a lot of the music I listen to like Bonobo, Lemon Jelly etc.
I made a picture to show how I made the HDR photos [...]
Got some nice HDR shots from Portaferry yesterday. These were taken from Windmill Hill, looking towards the Mourne Mountains…
Apparently us left-handers think more quickly. I may have had to correct the BBC on ID, but this article is clearly unquestionably accurate. To quote:
Left-handed people can think quicker when carrying out tasks such as playing computer games or playing sport, say Australian researchers. Connections between the left and right hand sides or hemispheres of [...]
Some recut movie trailers presenting Mary Poppins as a disturbing horror film and The Shining as a gentle family film…
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I’m running experiments this week which take days and reduce my computers to a slow crawl. Probably should be doing something more constructive than watching YouTube videos though…
Every Christmas the citizens of a Swedish town called Galve build a giant straw goat, and generally every year someone burns it down, though in 1976 someone smashed a car into it instead. They’ve tried fire proofing it and security guards.
They have a webcam so you can keep an eye on it. I wonder how [...]
David Berlinski just became my favourite commentator on the Evolution controversy. For those who haven’t heard of him, he describes himself as an agnostic Jewish mathematician. First I stumbled across this copy of his well known article from Commentary magazine, which gives a general and entertaining critique of Darwinian Evolution. But that is nothing compared [...]
Would you read a book by Phillip Johnson or Francis J. Beckwith? Probably not if all you’d ever read about them was their respective Wikipedia biographies (link, link). Based on those, you would probably want to protect your children from such apparently unsavoury dishonest closet fundamentalists. Both biographies have whole criticism sections full of misrepresentations. [...]
