I just bought Amy's "Getting Acquainted with OPML". My name is in e-print at last! Check figure 19 on page 23. 
Seriously though, great work Amyloo! 
Richard Dawkins has given a lecture at the University of Kansas - pictures and video are available. Two technical quibbles - RealPlayer sucks and we need to shame people in to not using it. Also, Web Standards folks might want to take a gander at the source code of richarddawkins.net
Sam Harris, from Letter to a Christian Nation: "The President of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said he was talking to God through his hairdryer, this would precipitate a national emergency. I fail to see how the addition of a hairdryer makes the claim more ridiculous or offensive."
Do you reckon that Karl Rove has built a Google Maps mashup showing the President where all the WMD are?
I'm really finding Facebook to be the site that MySpace and Friends Reunited should have been - it's brilliantly designed and programmed (in PHP too). Now all they need is make the News Feed function available through RSS, and it would be the absolute social network of choice for me.
Here's some critical analysis to stick in your SACRE pipe 
I've just found the latest syllabus put out by my local council's Standing Advisory Council for Religious Education (or SACRE) for Religious Education. What a lot of hooey.
According to this report, "The aim of teaching religious education in our maintained schools is to give children and young people opportunities to explore the spiritual dimension of human experience and fundamental questions of human life, relating these to the beliefs, values and practices of believers and others and to their own developing beliefs and values. In this way RE contributes to the aims of the school curriculum: learning and achievement, coupled with personal development".
Sorry, but I thought the aim of schooling was simply learning - where was this personal development stuff? Oh yeah, it was when they set you off trampling through mud with a bunch of burly blokes in shorts. That and teaching you how to put a condom on a banana ("But, miss, mine looks like a pineapple!"). Personal development? More like the first fifteen years of your life wasted.
As for the 'spiritual' dimension which they then ask teachers to help in the development of? Well, that's not all 'spiritual' in the sense of "religious but can't be bothered to go to church, but still want to keep a few of those pretty traditions and childish superstitions alive" type of spiritual - it's all about "identity, self-worth, personal insight, meaning and purpose in relation to the world in which we live" (okay) "and what may lie beyond it" (what, like when earthworms chew up our corpse?).
The 13 "general key concepts" which the report states are sitting beneath the teaching of RE in my county are: value and worth, belief, authority, commitment, celebration, ritual, worship and meditation, origins, purpose, meaning, symbolism, unity, difference and diversity (I know, there aren't thirteen, but that's 'cos I don't like bullet point lists). Whence 'truth'?
In section 12 of the report, it is suggested that there be cross-curricular links - that RE can be essentially rolled in to other subjects (namely, language, art and design, the expressive arts of music, dance and drama, as well as PSHE and citizenship) and that certain skills can be used in ICT, and that the various key skills are used in the study of RE.
Reading this document has convinced me how futile the study of religion is in schools. It's finally convinced me that we shouldn't try and reform RE teaching - we should abolish it altogether. It's fluffy and treacly. We ought to do as the French do and teach kids philosophy, and beef up the rest of the curriculum to cover up for the currently fluffy bits - specifically in the area of literature, history and psychology.
What kind of "dialogue" or "expression" is going to come out of a group of twelve year olds about religion, especially with a curriculum that spends more time on feelings than facts?
Abolish RE and replace it with philosophy. There's not enough time in the school day to waste it with this wishy-washy farce of a curriculum.
