Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Irish Blog Awards
Nominations are closing January 23rd, so get your votes in now.
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Impeaching George Bush
I meant to link to this last week, I found it via Steve who provides his own comments here. Elizabeth Holtzman argues that George Bush has done enough in office to be impeached, and she doesn’t pull any punches: As a matter of constitutional law, these and other misdeeds constitute grounds for the impeachment of…
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Mission to Pluto to launch Tuesday
The vastness even of our own solar system is astonishing, that it would take just a year to get to Jupiter, and then another eight to get to Pluto gives you some sense of scale. Because of the orbits of the planets, this mission really has to go ahead before February 14th, or else the…
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Iran row escalates
I thought this quote rather interesting: IAEA head Mohamed ElBaradei told Newsweek magazine that after three years of intensive work, he is still not able to conclude that Iran’s nuclear programme is aimed purely at energy creation rather than the manufacture of nuclear weapons. “If they have the nuclear material and they have a parallel…
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Classic SNL
Really, really good.
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Switching to Apple
I watched Steve Job’s full keynote from Macworld today, and there are number of things that struck me. And Cringely brought up the same thing in his predictions for 2006: 3) But Apple WILL make some inroads against Microsoft. The new Intel Macs will run Windows XP unofficially, and Apple Support acknowledges that they are…
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New look
Again copying Rymus, I have changed templates. I will decide on a suitable image for the header shortly. For now single entries appear to be displaying incorrectly in IE, when comments are there. Not sure how to fix it.
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MSM standards
The subject of MSM versus new media has often been debated on the blogosphere, and while I have never argued that blogging or citizen journalisn will fully replace mainstream media, I think it does serve as a valuable addition. I was struck this week, after reading an article in the Evening Echo (yes I know…
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Foreign Policy cover
The latest issue of FP has a catchy cover, I like it…
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Juan Cole readers
Welcome to readers of Informed Comment, I did a guest piece for Juan on my various trips to Dubai, and the development currently taking place there.
Got any book recommendations?