Links for 9 October 2005

Wired News: The Future Needs Futurists
On the need for professionalising futurism. (via Annie)
The Believer - Interview with Jonathan Haidt
On whether moral judgements are based on reason. Not sure how much of it I agree with, but it’s interesting.
Fads are so yesterday - Los Angeles Times
On how “coolhunters” are doing. I find the whole trend-spotting-in-order-to-sell-more-stuff thing pretty sickening. (via Boing Boing)
ONLamp.com: Keeping Your Life in Subversion
Using Subversion to backup all your files, and sync them among different machines. (via Tim)
RichardHerring.com - Warming Up - Friday 7th October 2005
“So George W Bush is saying that God told him to invade Iraq. … The last person I remember who argued that God had told him to do stuff was Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper.”