A few streams have confluenced to prompt this post. First, a consultant wandered around the corridors at work with an odd-looking keyboard under his arm. I didn’t have anything much to do with him and didn’t really pay attention. Then Paul Ford wrote about the two (main) kinds of distraction on Ft...

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Rosa Parks (1913-2005).

The flood of comment spam was getting really bad, so for a while back there I turned off commenting. But it made no difference. I didn’t really understand what was going on, although I’ve been reading a bit about splogs, which as ever are mucking things up for everyone. But I still don’t really...

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“Don't let anyone use ‘ID’ and ‘theory’ in the same sentence.” Sage advice from R. Joe Brandon, organizer of a petition to muster scientists against the teaching of intelligent design in science lessons. The Petition raised 7733 signatures, mine among them, in just four days. the Discovery Institute...

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I’m being deluged with comment spam. OK, so it isn’t showing up on the site, thanks to WP’s excellent filtering. But it is annoying. And hardly anyone ever sends a genuine comment. So I’ve blocked commenting for now. I’ll restore it in a while and see whether the shitstorm has died down. If you’re d...

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