Around the World - Brazil

It turned out we didn’t have a destination for April as everyone was busy working and whatnot. Still, we headed off to Red Hot, a Brazilian BBQ place on Gouger Street, for dinner this month.

Around the World - Croatia

The most recent stop on our round-the-world food adventure was Croatia. Last Monday we headed off to Morska Vila at Henley Beach for some fine Croatian fare.

The adaptive value of consciousness

From an evolutionary point of view, consciousness is a bit of a conundrum. I’m a pretty hardcore adaptationist so I’m of the opinion that complex traits are either adaptations or related to adaptations in some way (by being byproducts or vestiges of them, or, if they are not shared by a significant proportion of the population, by being defective versions of them). Consciousness doesn’t appear to be any of these things.

65th Philosophers’ Carnival

The latest philosophy carnival is on at philosophy, et cetera and I’m in it. Huzzah! Have a look around and if you like what you see then check out the carnival website for previous carnivals and more philosophical goodness.

Bloggy Goodness

Okay, the weekly features aren’t really working out because I’m just not imaginative in coming up with things. So no more weekly links or TTT. Still, there are a lot of good websites out there, particularly blogs. Here’s a few of my favourites:

My Views on Ethics

I thought I’d take some time to write down my views on ethics before they completely change as a result of writing an ethics thesis.

1000 Hits

Sometime this afternoon this blog had it’s thousandth visit. Even though a lot of blogs would get that many in a day, and my reasons for writing it are more for my self than to attract readers (mainly to work on my writing skills and get ideas clearer in my head), I’m pretty happy about it.

Around the World - Ethiopia

Last Monday we packed our bags and headed to Zagol House for what was my first taste of African food.

Weekly Links: Philosophy on the Internet

Preparing to write my thesis involves a lot of writing. Mainly this involves borrowing books from libraries and downloading journal articles that are only available to people at uni but there’s also a lot of good stuff on the internet as well.

Best Ads on Australian TV

This week I’ve got my top ten Aussie commercials for you. This is my first time embedding youtube videos so I went a bit crazy and found videos for all of them. That means that if you’re on dial-up you might want to skip this post. It also means I’ve only added commercials for which there is a youtube video - no ads for Goulburn Valley Fruit Snacks. Anyway, here’s the list and a brief explanation why I find each ad so damn funny.