No less a gardener than Prince Charles[^1] (of England) does not like the EU seed marketing legislation, and admits that he could be considered a criminal for saving and distributing unregistered varieties. I have not seen any comments from him on the proposals for the future. But his opinion ca...

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No, my headline has nothing to do with the story, really. But I’m tired. Which is why I link without comment to Ben Goldacre’s dissection of the recent “GM-potatoes cause cancer” flare-up. I’ve got something cooking myself, which will go nicely with one of the comments Ben elicited, but it needs t...

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The truth is, pedantry and non-pedantry can cut both ways. A pedant may vary from a dogged, uninquisitive, cloth-palated follower of orders to a devotee bent on doing everything right; while a non-pedant might be a simply lazy-bones or someone airy-fairily ‘creative’ in the worst, self-applauding...

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The Viscount draws attention both to his overall enjoyment of The God Delusion and also to one of the choicer quotes that Richard Dawkins exhumed to help his argument along. I too massively enjoyed the book and many of the bits that Dawkins himself did not write. In fact, I made a little list, an...

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Over at Neddie's, in the comments, no less, I come across this:

joel hanes said...

What most companies think of as branding,
we users think of as wasting our time
and maybe as insulting our intelligence.
David Weinberger
"Get Over It!"
_Darwin_Magazine_, March 2001

And I think to myself,...

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