Steve Garfield's introduction to videoblogs - and demoing Hipcast's call-in podcasting tool. "Everything is so simple when you jump in and try it". That's like the motto for computing. It's all easy, you just have to jump in. 
xkcd has an excellent satire of creationism.
Want to see something scary? Fred Phelps!
Covert selection: please don't do it, but we won't stop you 
BBC News are reporting that the government is pushing to cut down on covert selection by schools.
How have they done this, you ask? Perhaps by doing something sensible like getting rid of faith schools - whereby the most irrelevant characteristic is measured as the basis for entry (whether one's parents believe - or at least pull off a convincing impersonation of belief - in whatever is the flavour of the moment in omniscient deities). No, no such luck.
They've just put out a new code of practice. Which, of course, all the men in frocks are likely to follow. I'll believe that when I see it. Call me jaded, but since I'm currently residing in a city where priests have had such a wonderful relationship with the youth, I'm not sure that the law really has much effect on these people. Of course, neither does morality, which is why they talk about it so much.
Covert selection: faith is tomfoolery
No free travel for unbaptised child at Church of England school. The county council thinks it's appropriate to discriminate on the basis of a child - yes, a child, goddamnit! - when it comes to free transport provision.
I have no problem with religious schools, so long as only religious people have to pay for them - and the vast majority of people who don't believe don't have to subsidise them.
