Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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East Coast FM
I have been asked to go on East Coast FM to talk about blogs, around about 1045am. Make that 12.15 Make that tomorrow morning.
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What a lot of wheatgrass
I think the Economist have seen right through the mystique of Google: Now valued at more than $80 billion, Google has left in the dust the other three internet WunderkinderâYahoo!, eBay and Amazonâand even passed media stalwarts such as Time Warner. How does Google do it? At least in part by shrewdly manufacturing a winning…
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Web site: Al Qaeda in Iraq abducted Egyptian envoy
Al-Qaeda are now apparently claiming that they were the ones to snatch the Egyptian’s top diplomat in Iraq: “We announce, al Qaeda in Iraq, that the Egyptian ambassador had been kidnapped by our mujahedeen, and he is under their control,” said a statement on an Islamic Web site linked to the group. CNN could not…
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PHP Blogging Apps Open to XML-RPC Exploits
Looks like I will have to upgrade to some of the more recent WordPress releases. You have been warned.
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Monkey business-sense
I rather liked this story from last week’s Economist. It concerns risk aversion in humans and monkeys. When buying things in a straight exchange of money for goods, people often respond to changes in price in exactly the way that theoretical economics predicts. But when faced with an exchange whose outcome is predictable only on…
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Jeff Jarvis moves to WordPress
Jeff Jarvis has been having problems with his server, and has decided to defect to WordPress. The template is essentially the same one I use for Irish Corruption (the default one), but slightly modified. His readers seem happy with the impending change, I hope he likes WordPress.
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Irish libel
After just 2 weeks the question of libel has arisen on Irish Corruption. Could someone out there put together guidelines for Irish bloggers?
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Interview on 5-7 live
I think you should all go and listen to Boucher-Hayes interview Anthony O’Sullivan. Makes you think to say the least.
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Europe vs America
This old argument has raised its head again. Andrew Hammel, an American living in Germany, praises how people on this side of the pond live, in celebration of July 4th. He was prompted by Matthew Yglesias writing about how French people live, and this prompted Kevin Drum to jump on the bandwagon. My turn. Says…
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The End of the Rainbow
Caoimhe recently pointed to an article by Tom Friedman in the New York Times about the Irish economy: Ireland’s advice is very simple: Make high school and college education free; make your corporate taxes low, simple and transparent; actively seek out global companies; open your economy to competition; speak English; keep your fiscal house in…
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