Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Fox helps boost News Corp profits
Beating market expectations, News Corp are doing really well: …a 67% rise in quarterly profits, led by higher earnings at its Fox movie and TV networks. For its fourth quarter News Corp made net profits of $717m (£400m), compared with $429m a year earlier, beating market expectations. Its turnover rose by 12% to $6.1bn, compared…
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Oil prices return to record highs
These kind of rises could really eat into any growth forecasts for the rest of the year, how high can it go? In Wednesday trading in New York, a barrel of US light crude temporarily hit a fresh high of $65.00 before ending the day’s trading at $64.90. London Brent saw similar gains, jumping $2.08…
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Iran removes UN's nuclear seals
It was interesting to see an Iranian representative on the news saying that all the Europeans offered them were ‘lollipops’. To be honest I think you could offer Iran the world, but in the end they would still go ahead with their nuclear project, either in the open or at some level of secrecy. This…
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Shuttle set to land in California
The Shuttle is coming home but to California instead of Florida. I hope they all make it home safely.
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Gillmor on Google
Gillmor has posted his thoughts on Google blacklisting CNET. Could the original CNET piece have been better? Sure, especially by pointing out higher that this is hardly a Google-specific problem, that many other companies are doing such things. Was the article over the top? No. And even if it had been more of a hatchet…
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Peter Jennings dies
While I only really watched him when RTE cut to ABC, or during big news stories, I always found to be something of a character – certainly different to the people we get reading the news over here. And so young too. My thoughts are with his family.
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CIA and common sense
A follow up post on the CIA book I talked about yesterday and John commented on. Apparently Porter Goss has started something interesting, reported by Time Magazine. Dan Drezner gets it right again too, why so late? In what experts say is a welcome nod to common sense, the CIA, having spent billions over the…
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Burj Dubai
The BBC have a progress report on the Burj Dubai, to become the tallest building in the world on completion. 50 metres of the foundations have been completed, it is certainly an impressive looking building. I will try and get a closer look next time I am in Dubai. The Burj Dubai is a supertall…
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The New al-Qaeda
Watching the last in the series, fascinating documentary.
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MP3 recorder
Like me, Jeff is debating on what MP3 recorder to get to try out some audio blogging. I didn’t know Adam Curry was using the iRiver 799. Hmm. What to do.
Got any book recommendations?