The beast is dead. Finally, a bad guy gets the American body bag treatment - makes a change from the kids and grannies who’ve ended up in body bags so far. “;->” Of course, if Zarqawi were in Britain, he’d be described as a “community leader” and given a nice comfy consulting gig at the Mayor of London’s office.
I’ve been thinking about other ways of getting blog content out there. It’s interesting, because we’ve got all the content for OPML blogs in, well, OPML format. I’m thinking that it would be very cool if we could produce an OPML-to-email-newsletter formatter and perhaps an OPML-to-MySpace-bulletin formatter. My plan is that you take a whole bunch of weekly “best entries”, rejig them slightly and then the Editor would produce a text file for you to drop straight in to a MySpace bulletin.
It looks like there’s no way to post a link to MySpace bulletin. It automatically turns ‘#’ signs in to ‘..’ - another superb piece of uselessness from those utter twat designers at MySpace. Why does anyone use this piece of shite? I guess none of that $500m from Murdoch is being used to actually make the site better in any way.
Niall Kennedy is pointing feedspecs.com URLs to the relevant specs. How about opml.feedspecs.com? And what about the nearly endless number of microformats that geeks waffle on about but nobody actually uses? (As an aside, it’s time to neologise: “NINCO” - nice ideas never catch on - those who propose NINCO schemes are “NINCOmpoops”).
Alex Barnett has pics from Content 2.0.
Jeff Jarvis has a post about how blogs, of all things, are being used at the Edinburgh Festival. I have some thoughts on this, but I’m going to let them germinate for a while, lest I be called a reactionary traditionalist.
Timeless / Everlasting
Austin Cline has an absolute must read article about the difference betweeen timeless and everlasting conceptions of God’s eternity. In short: believing in an everlasting God rather than a timeless God has far more contradictions with the omnimax definition. I’m not sure about Austin’s last paragraph - the everlasting God conflicts not just with Neoplatonic traits but the omnimax traits that have been ascribed to God by theists in the Abrahamic tradition too - most notably omniscience and omnibenevolence.
I’ll be posting more about philosophy of religion topics, as I’ve just had my thesis topic approved in the subject - I’m putting together a project on modern teleological arguments. Or, in layman’s terms, “all that Intelligent Design bullshit”. And it is bullshit.
