Tom Morris

14 March 2008

A pungent mix of programming, philosophy, pedanticism, procrastination, perplexity, peripheral political polemic, and platters of preposterousness.

Ophelia Benson: They teach, in universities; their subject is an academic discipline; yet they feel quite cheerful about using words that mean everything and nothing, and they make a virtue of vagueness. And not only are they academics, they are feminist academics. Fucking hell. How did academic feminism get turned into Advanced Wool-gathering? Why do feminists think it’s feminist to make a parade of refusing to think?

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Dave Hyatt reports that WebKit (the open source rendering code underlying Safari) is now getting 90/100 on Acid 3. Firefox 2 is still my daily browser (AdBlock, Firebug, del.icio.us and It’s All Text! are the reasons), but I’m a huge fan of WebKit.

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Christian Voice professional rhetoric bandit and shit-for-brains Stephen Green has had a run in with Ian Watkins from Steps. Nice chap that Green is, he compares being gay with being a serial killer.

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