Eat My Links

March 27th, 2004 - 23:54 | 2 comments

At Nod’s request, I’ve added a ‘Short Stories’ link to the panel, as well as something I wrote for an assignment late last year.

HardOCP pointed me towards this review of the ‘Showshifter’ PVR software. As the [H] said, it’s certainly worth a look as an example of how not to review a product EDIT: As Simon pointed out, it’s now offline. Odd that.

NASA today hit Mach 7, breaking the speed record. Pah. A trifle. I won’t be happy unless the speed of light barrier is broken while I’m still of an age to go travelling in space. Get working, Ben.

A question I shall ponder: “how does liking green mean you’re horny?” There must be a reason…

If you want to read something that’ll really annoy you, may I suggest this article. Someone’s trying to get attention by claiming NASA is unable to ‘disentangle the evidence from their religious worldview’. Apparently we’re all assuming that evolution must have had a role in life on Mars. We should be seriously looking at the possibilty that God created life there too. Perhaps she should worry about proving God’s existence on our own planet before looking elsewhere. It’s not like it’d be difficult. I’ve often wondered how people can still think this way, and recently I discovered Richard Dawkins’ Viruses of the Mind. It’s a fascinating article that may explain why these kind of ideas still exist in modern society. I highly recommend it if you get a spare fifteen minutes, as it’s made me think more than anything else I’ve read this year.

I went off on a religious tirade, didn’t I. Sorry…I shouldn’t read creationist propaganda when I’m tired!

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2 Responses to “Eat My Links”

1 Simon Mar 28th, 2004 at 5:01 am

That article is indeed annoying.

“No one needs a Ph.D. to know that a rock sitting in a pool of salt water will not produce life ? no matter how many times lightening strikes.”

Well, by such logic, no one can believe in evolution on earth since that relies on single celled organisms forming in pools of water with rocks sitting in them. Or, perhaps if the author paid more attention to the underlying chemical and physical processes which the author’s field of molecular biology relies on would realise that such structures can form in water, presumably helped by mineral content provided by the errosion of the rocks. Perhaps it takes a Ph.D to
fail to recognise the potential of a rock sitting in a pool of water, since the specialization required at this level might force one to neglect other areas of knowledge and understanding.

I might have been slightly more persuaded by the article had the author mentioned the possibility that earth itself was contaminated by an asteroid from some distant region of space.
2 Simon Mar 28th, 2004 at 5:06 am

I think steamed turtle have removed the article after the hardocp post. Shame. Its also interesting to see that the website proudly boasts its golden web award, though the title of the post and the content seem to say different things. In any event, the use of nuke and the publishing of bad reviews does not, to me atleast, seem like good ways to win web design awards. Nuke is good, but since it isn’t your own work I would have thought you would have to do something dramatically different with it to secure such an award. Ah well, what do I know.

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