Infernus

And creationism fits the bill nicely. Luckily, Scientific American has a convenient 15 point rebuttal to their rubbish. Hurrah.

The only way in which democracy can claim to represent the people is if the people (such a wonderful, vague term) participate and stay informed. And by God, is it frustrating sometimes. Question Time, one of the better presentations of political debate on the BBC, was in Edinburgh last night. And this means they had [...]

Steve Yegge, of Google fame, has been musing on the next big language. The general consensus: that he’s talking about an upcoming revision of ECMAScript, more generally called JavaScript. It’s an interesting thesis and quite possible. The ‘next big language’ has never been about what is best, but what gets support. Java and C# are [...]

After all the kerfuffle about the BBC using Windows only DRM, the BBC has apparently explained. It’s not much (basically: we couldn’t find anything open that did what was needed) but it helps. After all, the Trust is demanding a cross-platform service within 24 months – and surely Mac & Linux users won’t miss that [...]

Every so often the government decides to create some mega-database that will contain all the information they need from citizens (or subjects, in our case). Viewing this optimistically, it is for the best of reasons – you’ll only need to update your information once and hence it will be more accurate, queries will be faster [...]

While I’ve been praising the Wii, it’s not without its drawbacks, some of them somewhat odd. Firstly, GameCube compatibility. This is rather a good feature, giving you use of the entire GameCube back catalogue. The downside – no one stocks GameCube gear anymore¹, and controllers are particularly hard to get hold of (I had to [...]