The Seventh Annual Weblog Awards are running again… I think it’s fair to say that it has not been a good year for plasticbag.org and that I’ve not written anywhere near as much stuff or at such high quality. So go vote for someone else!
the humble Tom Coates, granting you mortals permission
According to a campaigning group, staff at the Grand Canyon are not allowed to officially comment on the of the geological feature Apparently, the reason is that the geologic age is way in excess of the apparently 6000 year old age of the planet according to Creationists. Not sure I believe the story, and will look into it further…
I knew I shouldn’t have bothered, but there we are. I took a link from a posting on Tom Coates’s Plastic Bag weblog to an item on Lifehacker about iTunes. And what did I find in the first comment? The word copacetic.
Check out Flickr’s new maps for London. This is stunningly good stuff… Yahoo and Flickr now have good maps for Britain and the rest of Europe as well, which should help the whole geotagging thing really fly outside the US. I’ve known this was coming for a while, but it doesn’t make its arrival any less welcome…
The media-savvy Archbishop of York - the most senior cleric in the CofE after the Archbishop of Canterbury - has had a go at the BBC:
The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, has accused the BBC of bias against Christianity and says the broadcaster fears a terrorist backlash if it is critical of Islam.
The archbishop, the second most senior figure in the Church of England’s hierarchy, said Christians took “more knocks” than other faiths at the hands of the BBC.
Stephen Jay Gould published the collection of essays Hen’s Teeth and Horses Toes
way back in 1984, 22 years ago; so when the National Geographic recently published an article headlined Dolphin With Four Fins May Prove Terrestrial Origins
I was less than suprised, except by the exaggerated claims for the significance of the find. As Jan Haugland wrote recently about the same story,
