Yesterday, something very strange happened to my blog statistics…. There was a 3000% increase in the views. I watched with amazement all day as the numbers kept climbing. Something must be wrong as the viewing figures went exponential….It turns out that this was all down to being listed at a new site alphainventions.com which profiles a rolling [...]
Entries from December 2008
December 30, 2008
Ectoplasm Smells Like Seamen
Last night, Channel 4 began broadcasting a 3-part series, “Unexplained,” presented by the loveable Tony Robinson. I am a huge Blackadder fan and these guys are comedy geniuses in my opinion. However, I know this series will annoy me. The first episode, “The Blitz Witch” was based on Helen Duncan, the last person to be [...]
December 24, 2008
Bush Shoes for Christmas
I am all excited for tomorrow as I am hoping that Santa will have brought me a pair of Baydan Shoes Model 271. Yes, that’s right, these are the infamous Bush shoes hurled at the president in one of the most ridiculous and funniest moments in this whole sad episode.
A Turkish company claim to [...]
December 18, 2008
Light-Hearted Christmas Jest
As you will see if you go to the events page, I am chairing and organizing some talks next year by leading atheists. Generally, atheists have a pretty miserable reputation but as my colleague Paul Bloom points out in a recent article, this is more to do with the likelihood that they are an outcast [...]
December 13, 2008
Human or Not?
One of the first distinctions that infants make about the world is the difference between non-living objects and things that are alive. However, they sometimes get confused. I saw this on the weird and wonderful Dr. Fong blog and like him, I am strangely compelled by the site of dancing robots.
On the [...]
December 6, 2008
“Every Little Helps”
Like every blogger I have become hopelessly obsessed with my statistics… 38,32,36…(actually I have no idea what these are). This morning I noticed a spike in activity coming from Stephen Fry’s blog.. Tosh balderdash….titter ye not! For our foreign visitors, Stephen has become a British National Institution for sparkling wit and repartee on the box. [...]
