If you're a London blogger, sign up for the London Blog Meetup. It's happening on Tuesday March the 21st at 7pm at All Bar One, 36-38 Dean Street. Also on upcoming.org and Jo's blog. 

Very cool and funny video about MMORPGs. (Thanks, Stray!) 

Don't worry, I'm a UserTalk-learning vegetarian. 

Dave Cross is angry about the damn creationists too. 

Kevin Burton is building a Web 2.0 OS X Hall of Shame. 

Joystiq reports that Famitsu ranks, based on a poll, Final Fantasy X as the top game of all time, and points out that seven of the top ten are traditional RPGs. Oh, how I want to move to Japan and escape a gaming market dominated by damn Tom Clancy games and equally dull revisitations of the Same Old Sports Games. 

P. Z. Myers discusses Rick Wood's chat with Billy Boy Dembski. 

What are you missing by not hanging around on MySpace? Only bulletins predicting your death, vomiting, sex with Eastern European cryptozoological phenomena and much more. This movie is better than MySpace though. 

Of course, Microsoft have the added advantage that Office is as close as one can get, in software, to a goddamn chastity belt. No wonder so many schools use Windows... 

You wanna know the difference between Apple and Microsoft? Look no further than the packaging (YouTube video). 

I can't find a Usenet reader on OS X that's worth a damn. Any suggestions? 

Lots of Flickr yumminess. 

Les: "I've learned that I can program while listening to people talking - ie. fiction or discussion podcasts. But, once I start actually spewing words myself, I have to switch over to music. Otherwise, I just can't get anything extended and coherent done with that part of my brain". Me too. 

Google have some nice widgets for Dashboard. 

Mike: do the London thing. You know you want to. Perhaps also a CrunchCamp, like a trendier version of What! The! Hack! but without the bearded German OpenBSD developers.  

Google for gals! No, it's not a pink flowery Google homepage - Google have taken teenage girls around their offices to try and help more girls in to engineering and C.S. 

MTV to take on MySpace? Lets hope the two butt heads and kill one another. 

Daniel Dennett and Richard Swinburne discuss religion in this month's Prospect 

Dimwit Prince attacks law which allowed him to marry that Camilla. 

This is profoundly messed up. Mass disobedience is the answer. The idea that the government should fund the "copyright sector" is ludicrous. 

I've just been installing Widgets. Gmail, Upcoming, National Rail. All very handy. If you know of any Widgets for the Dashboard which would help me do what I do better, funkier and sexier, drop me an email. 

Good list of OPML stuff even though it doesn't include the OPML Editor and newsRiver.root. 

The Carson Workshops in London have MP3s available, and Tom Coates has a visual representation of his talk. 

This is rather useful - I use a two-way radio for intercomming. Simpler and cheaper than wiring the house up. 

Scoble is right. Slashdot praising Windows is a rarity. Me praising Windows is an even bigger rarity. 

More on the OPML and the Reading Lists including a potentially good use in education. 

Kent, don't worry too much about the censors. When a site I was involved in got censored for the first time, it was really a badge of honour. Of course, if you want, you could try and step around their filters. That's what I'm trying to do to help some people in school to access what they want, now what their incompetent school wants. 

Channel 4 are going to rub away some of the whitewash around the Queen Mum. Good for them. We need our delusions to be removed, especially when it comes to these overprivileged little twits in the Royal Family. 

This seems about right. Of course, if you replace the rock with a Macintosh computer, I'm siding with the religious folk. These bitches are magic. 

Look, again, read the Linda Smith obit in the Grauniad. Then again "observant atheist" - WTF? 

Hidden Passageway.com looks so cool. As does Media Central, but less so (Front Row has support for both audio and video podcasts and DVD, both of which are fine for me). Both thanks to Tom Coates. 

GPRS test blog from Darwin, my new lappy.  

Kent Newsome has a Web 2.0 Reality Check. 

NetNewsWire 2.1 is going to be a Universal app, and has a fairly nice speed kick for both Intel and PPC users. 

Jeremy Zawodny has an extremely useful, if rather patchy, OPML export for My Yahoo users. 

Kevin Burton is being unrealistic. However much Blogger sucks, killing it isn't going to happen. 

Social Creationism 

A talk.origins gem below posted by "VoiceOfReason" on Jan 30 2006 in response to Bobby D. Bryant:

What are the tenants of social creationism? "The upper class and lower class are separate 'kinds', and thus should not mingle"?

And here's VoiceOfReason's response:

- Freedom of Religion, Press, Expression - To worship the way we TELL you, and the freedom to express your appreciation (or else).

- Right to Bear Arms - The more, the better.

- Search and Seizure - For your protection, search and seizure will be unrestricted, including all items of a potentially subversive nature.

- Trial and Punishment - No person shall be held without due cause, unless in the interests of the State.

- Women's Sufferage - Don't worry sweetie, we'll make all the tough decisions for you.

Lovely.