Well, I was working until about 20 minutes ago, which gave me 10 minutes in which to do something. Therefore, I present to you with one minute to spare some lines I wrote ages ago set to an extremely grainy picture that I took of some person at the southbank bus stop one night that I find interesting for no very good reason.

I was on my morning run a couple of days ago listening to ‘glam bucket’ by underworld whilst thinking about transhumanism, and I thought it might be nice to write a soliloquy based around the thought that our ability to create and appreciate beauty is but a by-product of blind, indifferent evolution, and that technology might liberate us unto a glorious transcendent reality of infinite possibility. So this is a mashup of computer spoken word set to glam bucket and chris cunningham’s video for bjork’s ‘all is full of love’.

If YouTube takes it down due to copyright, the mov file is here http://thespacesbetween.com/share/deusexmachina/.

This week’s post was hastily thrown together tonight as we only got power back on this afternoon.

One day a while ago there was an eerie yellow-orange light outside that gave everything an other-wordly quality. Then it began to rain through this light and Nicole spontaneously ran outside and skipped around the back yard. Instead of joining her I ran and got my camera to capture such a beautiful moment instead of experiencing it with her – I’m not sure whether I regret that or not, because I got a few nice shots. Anyway, this is one of them set to a sad but sweet line that decided to pop into my head one day. Click for a higher res version.

This is her listening to Radiohead’s In Rainbows for the first time with headphones on.

And this is a shot I took of her in Melbourne when we went down to see Sigur Ros a while back.

I’m so lucky to have found someone so strong, intelligent, beautiful, hilarious, sweet and who has such depth and integrity. Who could ask for a better muse?

So for the first post I’m posting a little book that I’ve been working on for the last ages called ‘Unbelievable – A conversation between an atheist and his imaginary religious friend’. The idea behind it was to make the subject matter more fun and accessible. There are a lot of smart people who simply don’t like reading lofty academic arguments, and so this is an attempt to make the arguments for atheism humourous, engaging, and in the form of a book that you could read on a single plane flight.

Download a pdf version of the manuscript by clicking on this here icon (right click save to desktop or whatever):

It’s still in the editing stage, so if you’ve got any feedback, typos etc. let me know. Here’s the chapter titles to give you some idea of the content:

1 – In the beginning
2 – How good sheeple turn bad
3 – Everyone’s genitals are equal before God
4 – No monkey ain’t my kin
5 – Science – isn’t that what Tom Cruise is into or something?
6 – Medieval French gambling problems and props to the emo kids
7 – Our father who art in trouble with child welfare
8 – Atheists swing both ways
9 – The evolution of religion
10 – The relative nature of subjective delusions
11 – A cosmic Jewish zombie who can make you live forever
12 – Jesus, Muhammad, Moses, Buddha and Krishna all walk into a bar – miraculously none of them are hurt
13 – Telepathic urine control and superstitious new age inter-dimensional light beings
14 – Catchy ideas
15 – Logical phallusies and the pursuit of truth