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Why atheism and not agnosticism:
It’s scientific. Scientific method shows that we look at what we observe. No sign of god. Ergo, no god. On current information. If this changes, and we see signs of a god, then that’s great — science works! Your ideas are not set in stone with science.
Sitting on the fence is [...]

I’ve been reading the odd article suggesting why implementing this feature may be difficult on iPhone.
I’m not really sure what the problem is. Perhaps I’m missing something, but it doesn’t seem all that complicated.
Copy: tap and hold until loupe appears. Place caret where you want to start copying. Now hold a second finger, and move [...]

Quick notes, for anyone interested.
Handbrake - fine
Delicious Library - fine
Cyberduck - fine
Firefox - fine
fugu - fine
Flickr Uploadr - fine
Flickr Backup - fine
Disco - fine
Cocoa MySQL - fine
Azureus - fine
AppZapper - fine
Audacity - fine
Mathematica 6 - fine
Miro - gives error, then seems to work fine if you continue
KeePassX - crashes instantly
Quicksilver - icon on dock, no [...]

Many are asking for a file system view, and copy and paste, etc.
All these things are just one way of solving the problem of getting things done with your computer. They’ve been used for some years now, so are fairly well set in stone.
When Jef Raskin wrote his book, The Humane Interface, he outlined his [...]

I’ve been away from my email for almost two weeks now. Just checked in, and I’ve got 968 messages. Only 57 aren’t spam.