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It Ain’t My Baby, unique among bands

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Note — this was originally posted prior to my web host switch, and was lost somewhere in the transition.  I’m reposting it now. – Ian Imagine, if you will a rock band. A rock band who’s existence could be measured in months. A rock band that’s whole repertoire can be counted on one hand, and … Read more

The _____ of _____ mentioned in Orlando Weekly!

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Wowee!  My old friends published a mention of my book, along with a mini-interview, in this week’s Happytown column! Here’s the relevant portion: Not a day goes by in which someone doesn’t ask, “Hey, Happytown™, whatever happened to that Ask Ian the I.T. Guy? He sure had a nice ponytail.” In an effort to satiate Orlando’s … Read more

Response to the book so far

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So it’s now been a couple of days since I’ve started promoting The _____ of _____ by Means of Natural _____, and so far the response and feedback has been great! R.U. Sirius mentioned it on the h+ website, which is AWESOME! Scienceandreligiontoday.com posted about it. And Humantrip.net republished the press release verbatim.  :-) But … Read more

My first book is now available – evolution, through a biblical seive

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Audiobook version coming soon.

I’m happy to announce today that I’ve released my first book. It’s called The _____ of _____ By Means of Natural _____ or the _____ of Favoured _____ In the Struggle For Life: King James Version.

I also set up a separate page for it on this site, so that I’d have a nice little landing page for it.

Basically, I wrote a PHP script that took Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species, and I had the script redact every word from Darwin which does not appear in the King James bible.

The resulting work is an amusing objet ‘d art. I think it says something about fundamentalism and language.  I also hope it says something about the absurdity of creationism, and the importance of science in how we understand the world.

It’s available now as a 204-page, perfect bound trade paperback.  A bargain, at a mere $13.25.

After the jump, the text of the press release I’ve been spreading around.

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What’s the point of saving newspapers?

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This comes via boingboing.net today. After J-school, I’m more convinced than ever that newspapers (ink on dead tree) are pretty much doomed, with the exception of some niches — free papers, alternative papers, hyperlocal neighborhood papers. Even among my journalist friends, I can’t think of anyone that has an actual subscription to a dead-tree daily … Read more

Oliver Sacks talks about what hallucination tells us about the brain

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It’s windy today, and cold.  Well, not as much as it will be soon, but there’s a notable fall chill.  It feels like a learning kind of day.  In fact, I have my first arts reporting class tonight, and I’ve been reading about obituaries all day. And while drinking coffee at my desk, I came … Read more