Why Dont You Blog?

For the interests of people who read this blog sans comments (shame on you), I have “promoted” a short debate taking place in the comments of Heather’s post titled “ID Advocates Never Sleep.” I have done this, largely, because I think it is interesting and one side of the debate shows how a misconception about the applicability of a theory over different domains can lead to all manner of, what I think is, illogical reasoning.

Please feel free to add any comments of your own, either here or on the original post. This is quite long, and it broadly just repeats posts from previously so it is under the fold for those viewing on the blog.

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The London Olympics logo is blindingly pesh. The BBC subtly underlined this point on its breakfast news by showing the Barcelona 92 logo as an example of a previous one.

Barcelona logo: Stunning, simple.
London logo: Ugly, clashing and - Venus forbid - it comes in an animated version which a 10-year-old would hesitate to put on a website as their first animated gif.
(This animated shriekingly ugly thing has been withdrawn now though, as potentially causing epilepsy. Really )

A letter in this morning’s buspaper (the Metro) said it looks like a swastika. How subtly ironic is that, given we appear to be taking so many civil liberties goose-steps now?

Just in case the committee that chose this - at a cost of £400,000 (chortle) - hadn’t already covered itself with shame, it added insult to injury by explaining that it was a fashionable cutting-edge, lively, relevant, down with the kids logo. Implying that anyone over 14 (except them) was too old to appreciate it…….

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