Dear Soccer Silicon Valley member: The San Jose Earthquakes will return in 2008! MLS commissioner Don Garber will announce at Wednesday’s All-Star Game press luncheon that the league has accepted Lew Wolff’s proposal to have the Earthquakes play next season. … Continue reading →

Simply marvellous. Make sure you wear headphones. It’s not so impressive without headphones.

Last week, in my professional capacity, as the keeper of this web site, I came across a cool little browser extension called StumbleUpon. After you register, you check a bunch of boxes saying that you enjoy knitting, the Mayan Civilization … Continue reading →

It’s a limerick. I’ll provide a Full Pint of Beer to the first person who can restate the limerick in English in the comments without cheating and googling for it. (note to English people. The zed is pronounced in the … Continue reading →

AC Grayling has taken up my thread about certainties and proofs in the Guardian. Is there anyone alive today above the age of nine, and halfway sane, who would assign a prior probability of 50% to the existence of fairies … Continue reading →

Some people complain that governments don’t do anything useful. Au contraire! The EU has an agency that is promoting European film making by asking European film lovers to come together! (not work safe)

I just got Dennett’s Breaking the Spell from the library. From the introduction: Those who are religious and believe religion to be the best hope of humankind cannot reasonably expect those of us who are skeptical to refrain from expressing … Continue reading →

Just watched Newman (of Newman and Baddeil)’s History of Oil on YouTube. Incredible. Do they have people like him in America? If they did, they would probably keep them in Guantanamo. “An hour with Newman is, without doubt, the best … Continue reading →

We had that “but you can’t prove it” discussion at our beer bash at work the other day. The one where your co-debater suggests that, if you believe something without proof, you are making a leap of faith. Consider the … Continue reading →

When I was at grammar school, I used to rank the subjects according to how ‘like maths‘ they were. We were taught chemistry, physics and biology as separate subjects and, while I enjoyed all the sciences, I enjoyed physics the … Continue reading →