BBC Launches APIs

Stefan Magdalinski writes "The BBC is opening up a slew of APIs to its content and applications via a new site, backstage.bbc.co.uk, and actively encouraging users to remix, mashup, and otherwise play with their content to create new applications. Already there's a few cool featured apps, my own BBC News wikipedizing proxy, and a del.icio.us-enabled version of BBC News "Use our stuff to create your stuff" is their slogan. Could a commercial broadcaster ever take a step like this?"

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Re:OT, but closely related question

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Weird! I don't think it looks even slightly like an argument that God exists. Read it again!

IMHO These propositions are in decreasing order of plasuibility:

1. The universe is uncreated
2. The universe has a creator and just for the hell of it he writes $book to test how gullible his creations are (maybe he hasn't quite perfected his design for intelligence yet and needs to experiment further...)
3. The universe has a creator who is just as described in $book

I.e. I'm completely with you. I might be flexible about where (1) goes in that list, but to my mind (2) is obviously more likely than (3) and (4).