Archive for January, 2009
Bus atheism revisited
As I predicted, the Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that the bus advertising 'there's probably no God…' is an expression of an advertiser's opinion, and not capable of objective substantiation. Good for them. Any other ruling would have put bus advertising for Alpha Courses and other Christian events into danger, and would have set us [...]
The Mac at 25
Today the Apple Macintosh is 25 years old — quite something for the only _other_ personal computer to survive in the face of the IBM PC/ MS DOS / Windows onslaught, that saw off the Sinclair computers, the Amiga, the Atari, the Amstrad, the Sharp, the PET, and all the other that were dancing around and still going strong back in 1984. I didn't [...]
Atheist buses deny existence of God. So what?
The long promised atheist buses have gone onto the streets of London, touting the message: "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life". The planners of this campaign faced some criticism from their own side, who wanted a stronger message. But it appears that fears that it might breach advertising codes softened [...]
