Great fun reading the Loom blog and its debates on the nuttiness of "inteligent design" versus science. Lots of entertaining outrage that the Loom author Carl Zimmer has to spend precious minutes to spell out patiently the hilarious flaws in an attack by a mad creationist called Luskin, and then, ..er, this comment.....
As a native Chinese, I feel extremely confused why there will be such peoples like Luskin existing in America who pay so huge effort to advocate for an obviously false ideas, and there will be so many who do believe them. And further more - they attack science! What is the benefit behind all these? In China, we also have lots of people believing in God or Buddha, but they do not attack science. If they do the government will arrest them. Therefore science is pretty safe here. I think it is necessary to be so. Please arrest Luskin for attacking evolutionism!
Posted by: Andrew Sun November 14, 2006 03:25 AM
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
To a Girl Geek dinner in a pub in Brighton, dark and chatty and very busy.
The organisers were quite academic- all out of the COGs set up at Sussex, many of them nurtured by my old mate Ian. But the attendees were much more business minded, very much a networking event. Quite a lot of young women from small agencies around Brighton, interesting to find out just how many agencies there are.
With the possible exception of the main speaker Rosie, I was the oldest person there ( I put that down to lack of family commitments, not being 10 years behind in this new internet-thingy career. How I wish I had taken the advice all those years ago and learned this new fangled HTML coding back in 1995).
Anyway - Rosie took us through her project working on "portable electronic slates" for under 8 year olds; looks like fun, but SO far away way off anything commercially applicable that it clearly baffled some of the agency business-women. Wait till the 8 year olds are all 12, and then all homework will be done collectively via vast MySpace 8.0 group-think hives.
I complained to my companions that all the women speaking seemed to continually *apologise* for using the technology, "0h dear, this is the first time we've done this" "please bear with us .... er, which button do I press? "silly me, used to using a Mac.." but was countered by the argument that as women, the speakers felt relaxed in a group of other women, so didn't feel the pressure to be super-performing macho male-apers. Which is a good argument. Sank a pint of Budvar and went home.
The organisers were quite academic- all out of the COGs set up at Sussex, many of them nurtured by my old mate Ian. But the attendees were much more business minded, very much a networking event. Quite a lot of young women from small agencies around Brighton, interesting to find out just how many agencies there are.
With the possible exception of the main speaker Rosie, I was the oldest person there ( I put that down to lack of family commitments, not being 10 years behind in this new internet-thingy career. How I wish I had taken the advice all those years ago and learned this new fangled HTML coding back in 1995).
Anyway - Rosie took us through her project working on "portable electronic slates" for under 8 year olds; looks like fun, but SO far away way off anything commercially applicable that it clearly baffled some of the agency business-women. Wait till the 8 year olds are all 12, and then all homework will be done collectively via vast MySpace 8.0 group-think hives.
I complained to my companions that all the women speaking seemed to continually *apologise* for using the technology, "0h dear, this is the first time we've done this" "please bear with us .... er, which button do I press? "silly me, used to using a Mac.." but was countered by the argument that as women, the speakers felt relaxed in a group of other women, so didn't feel the pressure to be super-performing macho male-apers. Which is a good argument. Sank a pint of Budvar and went home.
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