Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Hacked
Has Sliabh been hacked?
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Fact checking Willie O'Dea
Well the question was bound to come up on Questions and Answers, and it took a good bit of waffle before we could down to the meat of the question. Enter random audience person with very specific question (18th minute): …last week the Taioseach, when he was accused of rip off and mismanagement, stated and…
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The Mater Hospital and cancer drugs
Twenty Major highlighted something I have been meaning to write about. That is the rather odd (crazy?) decision of the Mater Hospital. I will try and tell the story in brief for those of you who have not read about it. Brian Conlan, Chief Executive of the Mater hospital, along with the clinical trials advisory…
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China countdown to space launch
Events like this might not seem all that important right now. But the next big area up for grabs is space, and whoever dominates space will dominate the planet. Hence the rising American interest in both protecting it’s existing assets in orbit, and it’s plans to stop anyone else from having as much dominance as…
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Carole Coleman: I wanted to slap him
Following the publication of an article by Carole Coleman in the Sunday Times, there has been a recent upsurge in searches fo the video of the interview she did with George Bush last year. She has written a book about her time as Washington correspondent ala Mark Little. It is an interesting take on the…
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EBay Acquiring VeriSign for $370 Million
Hot on the heels of VeriSign’s acquistion of Dave Winer’s weblogs.com, Ebay have announced they are acquiring VeriSign’s payment processing business for $370 million. This will mean an expansion for PayPal.
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Banville's Sea takes 2005 Booker
John Banville has won the UK’s most prestigious literary award, the Man Booker Prize, for his novel ‘The Sea’. Banville’s book was chosen from a shortlist of six, he picks up a £50,000 prize.
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Feeds
My feeds appear to be back working after an upgrade to the latest wordpress release.
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Yahoo launches Podcast directory
[Via Tom] Yahoo have launched a directory of podcasts, and it looks much nicer than iTunes. Indeed I still can’t understand why Irish podcasts figure so highly in the top 10 podcasts, or is that just because I am browsing from Ireland. Does Strawberry Alarm Clock really have that many listeners?
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Darfur rebels release AU hostages
Sounds familiar doesn’t it? Srebrenica is a black mark on UN history, and the taking hostage of AU peacekeepers does not bode well for the future of that organisation.
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