Kester Brewin

Month: August 2007

  • Violence in the Movies

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    So, I have just ducked out of the fine weather – lovely Ventura sunshine and cool ocean breeze – to see The Bourne Ultimatum with Dr’s Huggins and Rolly-mo. The Great Huggster describes himself as a film buff. Which, I think, means he watches films in the buff. As if this information isn’t violence enough…

  • Soliton | Think Not Whether The Serpent Exists, But What The Serpent Said

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    I can think of no better way to stretch my legs out over the Atlantic for 11 hours than flying with Pete. Like a couple of great insomniacs, we fell to talking some theology, which knocked out the 5 rows around us in no time. I think BA might actually contract us for overnight flights,…

  • Your Digital Carbon Footprint

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    It’s obviously rich of me talking about this, flying as I am to LA on Monday, but it’s an often over-looked fact that the net runs on servers, and servers draw power. Nic mentioned the other day that a simple calculation of the server power-draw for Second Life, divided by the average number of users…

  • Web 2.0 | It’s All About the Sacred | Festival and Carnival

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    I guess sometimes you can’t see the woods for the trees. I recently posted a piece about René Girard’s thoughts on the essentiality of the sacred to human experience – something Dawkins et al ignore in their anti-religion positions – and I also posted something on Facebook and friendship. But it took a beer with…

  • No More Our Father? | IVF, Sexuality and the Father Figure Clause

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    I’m not one for ‘natural order’ arguments, but part of me is drawn that way over the news that the ‘father figure’ clause currently in British IVF legislation is potentially going to be dropped. A government joint committee report “took issue with the proposal to remove the current requirement for IVF clinics to take into…