Monthly Archives: December 2008

An excellent piece about a high tech school in the USA sponsored by Microsoft. How not to educate children.

Consider this: “Philosophically speaking, an atheistic American is a contradiction in terms. Now don’t misunderstand me. This age has thrown up a new type of man – we call him ‘secular’; he does not believe in God; not because he … Continue reading →

John Hutton, the Defence Secretary, has compared the Taleban and al-Qaeda to the Nazis, saying that British forces in Afghanistan are defending the country’s values as they did in the Second World War. More than just our values are at … Continue reading →

Here’s a good reason to stop buying it.

Is no more: Conor Cruise O’Brien has died.

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? It’s an easy question: the egg. Eggs were being laid by distant ancestors of chickens, hundreds of millions of years before our feathery buddies ever evolved. Shelled (amniotic) eggs developed gradually before … Continue reading →

Political Betting and Iain Dale are worried about government proposals to make libel actions cheaper.They’re wrong to be so. The biggest problem with libel is the expense. This makes it a rich man’s game. Few libel actions are complicated. An … Continue reading →

In the seclusion of his Maryland home, Ace has spent three years glued to the Internet, studying the Earth’s climate cycles and careening from one epiphany to another – a 69-year-old loner with the moxie to try to solve one … Continue reading →

Another case: A former associate of The Beatles has won the right to sue in England over a New York Times article which called him a charlatan. Because the article was published online the case should go ahead, the High … Continue reading →

It’s an old one, but I like it: Someone wrote:“I understand that if you play a Windows CD backwards you hear strange Satanic messages”To which someone replied:“It’s even worse than that; play it forwards and it installs Windows”