Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Election turnout in Poland
The Poles have elected a center right government, after years of left-wing parties in power, the populist Law and Justice and the free-market Civic Platform agree on the need to cut taxes, deal with bureaucracy and make a clean break. But turn out was incredibly low as the Economist notes: Three-fifths didn’t bother to vote…
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New look Economist
The Economist changed their website back on October 1st, and I do like what they have done with it. It’s not all scrunched to one side like it used to be, the lines are cleaner, and it’s much easier to navigate.
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Made up words in the Simpsons
A fabulous resource for Simpsons lovers everywhere. [via TCAL] Among the all time classics: CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet Crisitunity Debigulator Jebus Nucleon Sacrilicious Scotchtoberfest Tramapoline For explanations of these words follow the link.
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Criminal activity
An admission. I rip my music CD’s using Apple iTunes and put the songs on my iPod nano. Hark it is illegal to do so in Ireland under the Copyright Act 2000. I guess this means jail for me. Will anyone come visit?
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Government 'not to blame' over €150m pay system
Mary Harney has come out and said that the present government is not to blame. Huh? Is it just me or has the current government not been in power since 1997? Can you really blame it on either your colleagues (Cowen and Martin) or blame it on the previous administration? Horseshit m’lady. Noted Harney: “The…
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Google and Sun: press conference at six
Speculation is rampant. It could mean any number of things. My money would be on an Office-type suite, but who’s to say. I guess now that I’m a student again I don’t have the money to bet! Google could be launching its own operating system based on Sun’s Solaris or Java. More on this theory…
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Yahoo site explorer
Via Tom I found the new Yahoo thing that allows me to explore different sites within a domain name. So obviously I checked my own, as you do. I just can’t believe that there are almost 15,000 pages and almost 60,000 inward links, that can’t be right, can it?
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Blogging in flight
A blog about how to be ‘productive‘ at cruising altitude. And it’s sponsored by Boeing. [via Steve].
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GahooYoogle
Not sure what search engine to use. Try two together. [Via Steve]
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Blogging means business
IBM have a rather curious docu-thingy promoting the idea of business blogging. Go have a look.
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