Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Union agrees end to CBC dispute
It’s over, at least for now. And it seems it’s all because of ice hockey. The media coverage was largely sympathetic to the locked-out employees, and towards the end of the dispute, worried Liberal government MPs, inundated by complaints from the public, applied very public political pressure on the management to end the dispute. In…
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EU to ban all Turkish bird products
Another development on the avian flu front. I have not heard of any flu outbreaks in Turkey so I imagine this is a precautionary measure. The BBC notes: The decision came after Turkish authorities slaughtered up to 2,000 birds in the north-west of the country in an effort to control the disease. As many as…
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Romania isolates bird flu village
It gets ever closer, and what has Ireland done to prepare? I’d hazard pretty much nothing. Romanian officials quarantined a Danube delta village of about 30 people Friday after three dead ducks there tested positive for bird flu — the first such cases reported in the region. Agriculture Minister Gheorghe Flutur said the virus found…
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Life is a cup of tea
I have been vaguely following the Intelligent Design court case in the US. It should be noted that in 1987 the Supreme Court ruled that teaching creationism in public-school science classes was an unconstitutional blurring of church and state. But the current issue centers on this: Last year, the school board in Dover, a small…
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Consumer question
I bought a game in Game yesterday for my PC. On going to the counter I was asked to make sure that my computer met the minimum specifications (it did), and that if I bought the game there would be no refund, no exchange, and no comeback whatsoever. I know that by warning me in…
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US 'intercepts al-Qaeda letter'
A very curious letter, if it proves to be authentic. In the missive, Zawahiri apparently warns tactics such as the killing of hostages and bombings of mosques may alienate the “Muslim masses,” Mr Whitman said. “In this letter, he talks about believing that the eventual governance of Iraq must include the Muslim masses, and that…
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AOL to buy leading blog company
Or as the BBC site said: Ok ok, we all make mistakes. Anyway this is a very interesting development. Jeff Jarvis has alot more. I think in the marketplace that we are in, these things are bound to happen. Market forces (real or imagined) will drive this kind of investment. Bloggers can make moral judgements,…
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SMS Bible launched in Australia
I hate SMS type language, I use predictive text, which is what all smart people do. Obviously. 🙂
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George Bush: God Made Me Do It. . .
I know that some people on the right in America forget that Bush is a fundamentalist Christian, and some even argue that having a devout Christian in the White House is a good thing. I have my doubts. Especially when you are waste high in Islamic countries. But the White House has denied he ever…
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Are you a bored web techie? Join al-Qaeda
Tongue in cheek el Reg reports on news that Islamic websites are advertising for jobs: According to Reuters, the fun-loving organisation has published web adverts “asking for supporters to help put together its Web statements and video montages”, or more precisely, it has “vacant positions for video production and editing statements, footage and international media…
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