Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Inside the sect that loves terror
The Times had a reporter inside a group calling itself the ‘Saviour Sect’…The full piece can be read here. A Sunday Times reporter spent two months as a recruit inside the Saviour Sect to reveal for the first time how the extremist group promotes hatred of ânon-believersâ? and encourages its followers to commit acts of…
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Exclusive: CIA Commander: We Let bin Laden Slip Away
MSNBC/Newsweek have quotes from the latest authour of ‘ex-CIA staffer tell-all’ story.. …in a forthcoming book, the CIA field commander for the agency’s Jawbreaker team at Tora Bora, Gary Berntsen, says he and other U.S. commanders did know that bin Laden was among the hundreds of fleeing Qaeda and Taliban members. Berntsen says he had…
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Google snubs press in privacy fury
Google seem to be over reacting here: Google has thrown a hissy fit and blacklisted tech news site CNET’s News.com – vowing not to provide quotes or statements to the site for a year. “Google representatives have instituted a policy of not talking with CNET News.com reporters until July 2006 in response to privacy issues…
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King David's fabled palace: Is this it?
Very interesting archaeology: An Israeli archaeologist says she has uncovered in East Jerusalem what she believes may be the fabled palace of the biblical King David. Her work has been sponsored by the Shalem Center, a neoconservative think tank in Jerusalem, and funded by an American Jewish investment banker who would like to help provide…
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Joke..
Only click this link if you find jokes funny that use bad language and could cause offence.
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Tech question
I know how to modify .htaccess to refer a html page to another html or php page, but how do I get a php single entry from WordPress to refer to another weblog, given that it’s using SQL?
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Iran Is Judged 10 Years From Nuclear Bomb
Seems like Iran is further from nuclear weapons than we were led to believe, but then who knows?
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Bush and Evolution
Kevin Drum is reminding some of those on the right about Bush’s views on evolution and creationism – apparently some of them forgot. Actually, what bugged me most about this whole affair was reading the faux outrage from Bush’s conservative supporters in the blogosphere, as if they had no idea he felt this way before…
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NatWest issues cash card to Dick Head
Funny story of the day: God alone knows what NatWest customer Chris Lancaster has done to offend the bank’s card issuing department, but it recently sent him a new cash card on which he is gloriously identified as “Dick Head”. Or rather, his new title in full is Mr C Lancaster Dick Head, prompting the…
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Yahoo to Launch Blog Ad Network
Yahoo is really starting to pull out the stops with Google. This new network should see a rapid takeup by bloggers, and perhaps generate some competition leader to higher revenue.
Got any book recommendations?