BT are rather het up. People have bought these funny things called "broadband services", then they decide to use them. Having used them, BT then have to buy bandwidth to supply them. This is all rather confusing for a company whose raison d'etre is to, erm, supply bandwidth. So they rant and rail at the users for using the service they've paid for. 
Hmm. The BBC are reporting that "one in five pupils" have tried drugs. That figure is extremely low considering that alcohol, tobacco, caffeine and pharmaceuticals are all drugs. Oh, they mean illegal drugs - which are just like the other drugs (sometimes safer) but just not given a government meal ticket.
Yes, it's slow, Suw. Try GPRS every day. If I wasn't doing nothing else when using it, it would rile me right up. It's good to know how most of the world lives though.
Steve Rubel points to some interesting stuff: Socializer, an article on how young men are more likely to spend money on mobile content than women and something on social search. I don't get why Wikipedia are hosting desktop wallpapers.
PZ has a good entry on EO Wilson and the meaningless of religious language.
MeFi has a very tedious thread on the Atheist Image Problem, which devolves in to stupid religious arguments by people who know no better.
The MacBook Pro is the fastest Windows laptop. Pwnage!
I'm a bit late, but Alienware got acquired by Dell. That's so annoying. I feel about the same about this as when Flickr got bought by Yahoo - good in that the future security of the company is secure, bad in that the creative control and certain other annoying bits and bobs get taken over by the big company.
I agree with this. PayPal Mobile could possibly be a very cool creation.
Gordon Brown has alotted lots of money for science teachers. Unfortunately, the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) needs to reciprocate and start getting schools to do real science rather than creationist nonsense.
Jason is having a giggle at the expense of Cornelius Hunter.
Steve Pavlina has a post on how to get up early (via BoingBoing/Cory)
Merlin Mann has a superb entry on GTD for newbies and how to remove distractions from your Mac.
Take That rehearsal 
Funny news from the front: a colleague told me today of how faded teen pop band, Take That, were recently found rehearsing at the hall of my college, right next to the office where I spend my days.
The now significantly older, balder and distinctly less heart-throbbish attracted a small following of female university students sadly reminiscing over their pre-teen years. It's funny how Plato and Jason Orange can mix.
If you really need your memory jogged, Take That had eight number one hits in the United Kingdom between 1991 and 1996, Wikipedia describes their 1996 breakup as "cataclysmic" (Oxford American Dictionary: "relating to or denoting a violent natural event [or] something unpleasant or unsuccessful on an enormous scale"; hardly NPOV, if you ask me). They've only had one hit in the United States.
After Take That broke up, according to Wikipedia, hotlines were set up in Britain to "cope with fan's grief". Oh, for crying out loud. Shed a tear for talent, but shed nothing for these guys.
Take That was the signal to the music industry to spoil the nineties with manufactured boy band acts, though they obviously didn't start it. They just reactivated the clean cut, happy clappy boy-band act that's pissed off anyone who likes music for decades now.
How do I feel working in the room next door to where Take That are rehearsing for their UK tour? Pretty apathetic. I'm testing out and evangelising technology that will hopefully replace the industry which makes Take That popular, and that's really exciting.
It's a technology that doesn't care about your age, or your "image", or your sexuality or any of that jazz. It only cares about ideas.
Vile
I like this comment over at Hellbound Alleee's blog:
| With respect to hell, I just loved what Richard Carrier said during the movie The God Who Wasn't There. Brian Flemming asked Carrier if he would be regretful if, when he died, he ended up in the Christian hell. Carrier said not at all; indeed, the Christian heaven would be a true hell for him. He pointed out that, if he knew billions of people were suffering agonizing torture for all eternity, and he couldn't do a thing about it while sitting up in heaven, that would be the worst afterlife he could imagine. |
| The very concept of hell demonstrates the inherent immorality of Christianity. No virtuous religion would envision a place filled with agonizing tortures and horrendous suffering. Envisioning such a place seems downright psychopathic. |
I post this while I listen to very happy-clappy gospel music. Am I a hypocrite, or do I just know which bits of religion are worth bothering with?
Now, to free the rather interesting concept of 'conscience' from it's theological dogma for an essay on the ethics of religious 'hatred'.
The discussion of Luke 16:23 in P. Z. Myers' comment thread certainly is interesting. If Abraham is really the father of faith, then torment awaits. Real good endorsement of the Religious Life isn't it, Mr Kierkegaard? You can start the whole idea of faith off, but if you don't accept the salvation of a man born after your death, you're gonna burn. What a sexy religion.
