Year: 2002
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New religions
If you were to invent a new religion – a post-enlightnment, post-Darwin, post-DNA, post-space travel religion – what would it look like? Would it scrap a conventional, external deity in…
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Oh no it isn’t!
Happy Christmas From Steve Bowbrick! — .Have a great new year, stay in touch and do let me know what you’re up to.
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Creative Commons
Let me get this straight right up front: I think the public domain is critically important to human advancement, I think the net is its most important representative on this…
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Readership in need of renewal
Peter Preston highlights the effects on newspaper publishing of the UK’s falling birthrate and aging population.
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Joe Strummer
I’m certain we’ll see better obituaries for Joe Strummer from some of the great writers of that period (many of whom are presumably now drowning their sorrows) but, in the…
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Intoxicated
I make no apology for the fact that this weblog has taken a domestic turn lately. It’s Xmas. The pleasure of watching the faces of our three and four-and-a-half year-olds…
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How do they do that?
This £9.95 toy records twenty second sound clips and incorporates them into its programme of lights and sirens and racing around. Oliver, aged four, takes this entirely for granted, of…
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Tily in the gloom
The questionable low-light capabilities of this Ericsson cam-phone (have you wondered why the TV ads all seem to be set in the Sahara or Southern California in high summer?) and…