The-Elected.com is completely different now:

http://www.the-elected.com/

let me know what you think. I've given up on the idea of having The Elected hold information like areas, institutions, offices etc. because they are already in Wikipedia. The only advantage was that the information in The Elected was …

'course I am dude! Bob at work has it at the moment, but he's bringing it in next week I think.

the question is: are you going to lend me the book?

Hughes has a big thing about dreams. He thinks dreams go into a supernatural archive and then:

At the last, having thereby made a unique contribution to something beyond us, each of us was to die into that insubstantial but immortal nowhere.

Absolutely barmy.

The story is of his search …

I loved this book, although of course I didn't agree with all of it. Take the swimming pools versus guns thing. Levitt says that swimming pools are statistically more dangerous to kids to have at a house, than guns. That may be, but swimming pools are fun and so shouldn't …

In my lifetime, everything's gone from being analogue to being digital. These terms are usually used when talking about electronics, but they needn't be.

I think of digital as being where a range of values correspond to another discrete value. In his book, The Digital River, Richard Dawkins says that …

I think my boiler's getting furred up because I can hear fragments of limescale move around when I turn the central heating on. Also, I live in a hard water area and everything gets covered in limescale.

It's a problem because it significantly impairs the efficiency of the boiler.

I'll …

Just out of interest....

1.how do you know your boiler is being fured up?

2.Why is it a problem?

I would be interested to hear if your new magnetic devices works or not!!

Limescale is starting to fur up the boiler in my house. The cheapest solution is one of those magnetic water conditioner things, but I'm doubtful that they work. There's an interesting article from Cranfield University that suggests that that anti-scale magnetic water treatment can work. I think I'll give the …

I heard on the radio that someone's come up with the idea of making it illegal to deny the holocaust in Europe.
I think that the holocaust did happen. Why do I think that? I'd like to be able to say that I've done a thorough review of the historical …