Sigh. More reviews for “The God Delusion”, this time from the usually reputable Independent: a beautiful example of fine writing, polite debate and apalling reasoning: Then there's the enormous amount he takes for granted. “For the umpteenth time,” he wails, “natural selection is the very opposite of a chance process.” For the umpteenth time, explain. [...]
Archive for November, 2006
PSP Homebrew Love
As the tits at Sony release firmware 3 for the PSP (with PS1 emulation support, if you’re daft enough to own a PS3 and live in the US/Japan), I noticed my PSP has a old (pre TA-082) motherboard. And so it got the flash treatment – to Dark Alex’s 2.71SE firmware. This is very neat [...]
Vexation on a Day of Rest
I am vexed. Why? I have recently finished reading “The God Delusionâ€, the latest effort from Richard Dawkins. And it's a good book – perhaps a bit simplistic in its arguments, it covers too much ground in too little space and is written with Dawkins's characteristic certainty. This is not a bad thing, and given [...]
