The Independent’s review of The God Delusion is a little more equivocal… It’s a flawed review in that it attempts to defeat Dawkins on his own terms – ie. by describing religion as a trait that provides its adherents with greater adaptive success, rather than by looking towards the meme as the unit of selection.
Employment (II) (1633) by George Herbert “Man is no starre, but a quick coal of mortall fire; Who blows it not, nor doth controll A faint desire, Let’s his own ashes choke his soul”
I’ve often heard video games described as a new form of art. I personally fail to see how running around for hours in a pseudo medieval landscape can reveal any sort of deeper meaning or hidden truth about life. Interactivity replaces narrative and utility replaces form in most games.
WRT the TV episodes, you just need to do a bit of entity relationship modelling. Something like
programme-
“saturation in the marketplace doesn’t mean that everyone writes about Britney, it means that people specialise and there’s more choice”
That’s the theory – I remember Andrew Neil saying that elitists should welcome broadcast deregulation, as the free market would give us dedicated opera and ballet channels. In practice… have you looked at the ‘digital and satellite’ pages of the Radio Times recently? I don’t see much radiation into unoccupied evolutionary niches.
Oops – I should have known better than to use angle-brackets. I meant to say, you need something like
programme-:series-:episode-:broadcast
where each ‘-:’ is a one-to-many relationship.
must admit i haven’t read any Dawkins but his TV show and media appearances are a bit tedious. he only ever goes after the swivel-eyed fundamentalists (who admittedly deserve it, but it’s shooting fish in a barrel). i’m more of a richard holloway fan myself.
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I’ve often heard video games described as a new form of art. I personally fail to see how running around for hours in a pseudo medieval landscape can reveal any sort of deeper meaning or hidden truth about life. Interactivity replaces narrative and utility replaces form in most games.
WRT the TV episodes, you just need to do a bit of entity relationship modelling. Something like
programme-
“saturation in the marketplace doesn’t mean that everyone writes about Britney, it means that people specialise and there’s more choice”
That’s the theory – I remember Andrew Neil saying that elitists should welcome broadcast deregulation, as the free market would give us dedicated opera and ballet channels. In practice… have you looked at the ‘digital and satellite’ pages of the Radio Times recently? I don’t see much radiation into unoccupied evolutionary niches.
Oops – I should have known better than to use angle-brackets. I meant to say, you need something like
programme-:series-:episode-:broadcast
where each ‘-:’ is a one-to-many relationship.
must admit i haven’t read any Dawkins but his TV show and media appearances are a bit tedious. he only ever goes after the swivel-eyed fundamentalists (who admittedly deserve it, but it’s shooting fish in a barrel). i’m more of a richard holloway fan myself.