Over on Pharyngula, PZ Myers still has no time for the coinage “bright”. And I’ve got to say, I’m still with him on this one. I think it is a daft term, for all the reasons brought up in the interminable comments to his post. I am an atheist. I may be a bright atheist -- that’s not for me to say...

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Colleagues generally ignore advice received. So it was with an almost palpable shudder of revulsion that I read a recent email. New to me, it contained modern management advice that casts aside ancient and hard-won knowledge, to whit:

The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from gene...

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I’m not a big fan of Über-blogger Seth Godin. Nor do I dislike him. I just don’t visit very often. But when I saw a post entitled Time to quit? had become popular on del.icio.us, I decided to take a peek. (Which may say something about my state of mind, but that’s another discussion.) Anyway, in a...

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This doesn't seem right. A company [offers]http://www.ureasample.com/pass-drug-test/body-detox-thc.shtml “drug-free clean human urine samples and complete substitution kits” to protect privacy or ensure the accuracy of a drug test.¹ I can see that people who have done drugs might want to avoid b...

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Struggling to validate my CSS and XHTML earlier it occurred to me that once again I was up against the limits of my own ability faced with increasingly complicated machinery.

Time was, not all that long ago it seems, that I wrote books on a lovely Apple ][, pimped with external dual floppy drives...

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