October 6, 2000

Prove God exists. Descartes proved it by assuming that ‘Cogito, ergo sum’. ProofGodExists.com uses what’s called the Watchmaker Argument – that there can be no watch without a watchmaker. Richard Dawkins countered that beautifully in The Blind Watchmaker. Now, I’m a religious guy and all that. But I’d rather take God on faith than proof, OK? Comments Clare McIntaggart 19 Feb 2007 12:19 pm: regardless of my religious convictions Descartes reasoning was flawed when he ‘proved’ the exsistance of god. flawed for many reasons which only one of was the lack of applying his own method of doubt.

On 24th August I said “Life in the 21st century doesn’t look promising”. A Force More Powerful would make me eat those words. It’s a collection of stories about non-violent conflict in the 20th century, and it appears to work more effectively than most wars.

The Golem project is rather like SETI@Home, except that your screensaver builds ‘physical locomoting machines’. Neat.

eLiterature.org is a directory of electronic literature. Nothing great so far, but maybe, some day…

We made some vatha kozhambu at home this morning. Now, you’ll have to take my word for it, because we ourselves weren’t very convinced. But it was hot. It was thick. And though it had too much tamarind, it tasted great (or so we say). After that heavy bruch, it was time for LBS. I think I’m the slowest typist at LBS. The speed at which the keyboards chatter around me is incredible. So fast, in fact, that I lose my nerve and tend to make mistakes or type slowly. The guy to my right, for example, is glued to the monitor and is typing about 3 characters for every keystroke of mine. So far, he hasn’t pressed backspace. Luckily, the lady to my left is using the mouse more than the keyboard! ...