Author: Lloyd Morgan
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Another Example of Middle-East Ignorance
Dunkin’ Donuts removes ‘terror scarf’ ad – The US chain Dunkin’ Donuts has pulled an advert following complaints that the scarf worn by a celebrity chef offered symbolic support for Islamic extremism. She was wearing a black-and-white checked scarf around her neck that resembled a traditional Arab keffiyeh. This fashion choice incensed at least one…
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Suing in the Name of God
Soon it’s going to be illegal to see into the future; contact the deceased; and find out what’s inside closed envelopes. Well, probably… New laws are about to criminalise clairvoyants who fail to note on their advertisements that their services ‘are not subject to scientific proof’. Obviously, I’d like to think that the more intelligent…
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Breaking Records with Firefox 3
The release of Firefox 3 is imminent, and to celebrate its launch, the Mozilla Foundation is organising Download Day 2008 – an attempt to break set the record for the most software downloads in a 24 hour period. As I’ll be downloading this soon after release for both my home and work computer, I have…
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Creating Indexed Users
When it was live, I used to look forward to the next instalment of Creating Passionate Users; a blog on doing business in the IT sector where the writers were “all passionate about the brain and meta-cognition”. The entries were comical and the accompanying graphs were simple, elegant, and really were worth a thousand words.…
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The Placebo Effect – Once More With Feeling
I’ve just written a post on one of my favourite topics; the placebo effect. Triggered by the article Placebo is not what you think, it touches on the use of placebos by medical professionals (currently a banned practice) and the informed use of placebos by heroin addicts. Strangely enough, in the latter case the use…
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Aristotle’s Moral Virtues and Vices
In Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, moral virtues and their extremes are discussed. That is to say, personal characteristics and the extremes thereof. These extremes – or vices – are two of the three pillars of virtue, the third of which is The Golden Mean, or the Virtuous Mean. This mean is the position on the ‘scale’…
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Interview With a Blind Homeless Man
Interview With a Blind Homeless Man, by Bobby “Revellian” Revell: I don’t get upset when someone calls me old, stupid or whatever because I don’t know what it really means when describing a person. This great post reads almost like what I call the doctrine of the atheists; morals and ethics come from within. This…
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Travelling Light
I’ve had Tim Ferriss’ post on How to travel the World with 10 Pounds or Less (that’s lbs, not £s) bookmarked for a while now, waiting for a good reason to post it here. One has now arisen. An NPR story called How to Pack Everything You Own in One Bag has created a slew…
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Ask Y Combinator – The Archive
I’ve written about Y Combinator before, and if you followed the link you’ll have realised by now that ‘Y Combinator‘ is analogous to ‘Grade A Columbian Nose Candy‘. Well get ready for another binge on the dandy candy, as the Startups Wiki has now produced the Ask YC Archive – a site highlighting the best…