Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
-
Drezner gets post
Dan Drezner informs us of his new posting in Boston. Best of luck to him.
-
On Brian Crowley
After chatting with Brian Crowley briefly last week I am still puzzled and perplexed by some of the arguments in favour of the Common Agricultural Policy. This is mainly because he argued about it in a way I had not read or heard before. He mentioned the three current pillars of CAP, and I can…
-
Trojans
Apologies for the outage…it was down to a server move, combined with a trojan infection server-side.
-
Virus alert
There are appears to be a problem, my server appears to be have been infected by Trojan downloaders – it only affects IE users though. I will be locking down various things to prevent further infections to readers, until the infection is removed.
-
Google referrer
When someone working for Google in California visits, the following information comes up in Sitemeter… Domain Name google.com ? (Commercial) IP Address 216.239.38.# (GOOGLE) 216.239.38.136 ISP GOOGLE Location Continent : North America Country : United States (Facts) State : California City : Mountain View Lat/Long : 37.1894, -121.7053 (Map) Language unknown Operating System Unknown Unknown…
-
Top science adviser faces fresh claims over doctorate
This story featured in the Irish Times last week, and as it fell during a hiatus, I did not write about it. I did however intend to come back to it. As some readers may know one of the major incidents to happen with this blog in its 3 years plus existence was the entire…
-
CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons
Hardly surprising but doesn’t help much: The CIA has been hiding and interrogating some of its most important al Qaeda captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe, according to U.S. and foreign officials familiar with the arrangement. The secret facility is part of a covert prison system set up by the CIA nearly four…
-
Travellers?
I can see someone complaining about Frank McDonald’s quoting of a source here: Minister for Transport Martin Cullen promised the company an extra 20 buses “immediately”, even though it needs at least 180 – primarily to provide a frequent service on quality bus corridors (QBCs), such as those installed recently on Merrion Road and Fonthill…
-
Rome
Rome, tonight, 9PM, BBC2. Can’t wait to see all this sex everyone has been going on about. hehe.
-
Time to retune your satellite receiver
Liam Noonan reports that I will have to retune my satellite receiver to pick UP the newly free to air ITV1,2,3 and 4. Up to now I have received ITV3 free on Astra with ITV 1 & 2 encrypted. Update: Actually I didn’t, they were tuned in already. All the ITV regional variations plus ITV2,…
Got any book recommendations?