Archive for 'Culture'
Wiggly Concert
Posted: January 8th, 2008 under Fatherhood, Culture.
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The giver of evil gifts
I’m sitting in a lecture theater waiting for our video link to Alister McGrath (who is upstairs in a similarly packed room) to sort itself out (the techs are doing that thing where they run from room to room and twiddle things).
Alister is talking about The Bankruptcy of Atheism and his book The Dawkins Delusion [...]
Posted: October 1st, 2007 under Culture.
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Stargate vs Fundamentalism
Since I set up the MythTV a few weeks back, I’ve been catching up on some late night SciFi. it’s taken me awhile to cotton on to the new stargate villains which are actually a fundamentalist religion kind of. The premise behind it is a bit boring but the outcome is that the [...]
Posted: September 30th, 2007 under Culture.
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Thoughts after the Australian Blogging Conference
I wanted to post this last night but ended up getting a migraine and going to bed. I’m a bit sad that I wasn’t able to just head on down to the Normanby after the conference for drinks with the blogosphere but I have a toddler at home who needs my love too.
During the [...]
Posted: September 29th, 2007 under Blah, Culture.
Comments: 6
Thoughts before Australian Blogging Conference
I’m on my way to the Australian Blogging Conference at QUT Kelvin Grove today. The conference is a fairly informal chat with some successful bloggers from around Brisbane mostly. I’m looking forward to meeting a few of the people behind some of the blogs on my RSS list. I’m also a little [...]
Posted: September 28th, 2007 under Blah, Culture.
Comments: 1
Why I’m Voting Democrats
My friend Murray is running for the Democrats in this election in my electorate. This is probably not reason enough to vote Democrats and I think I might have even voted Green last election. The time before that I voted Democrats because I read all their policies and agreed with them more or [...]
Posted: September 25th, 2007 under Moralising, Culture.
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Enter the atheists
I’ve just finished reading Ken Mcleod’s excellent post on 21st Century Atheism from back in July. I only recently found Ken’s blog and I’ve been working my way through the 30 or so links from that post to a lot of discussion of the so called New Atheists and their books (you know: God [...]
Posted: September 7th, 2007 under Big Questions, The Competition, The Institution, Culture.
Comments: 2