Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Bono and Rummy on Meet the Press
MSNBC have a transcript of Bono’s appearance on Meet the Press…
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U2 Gig, Croke Park
Im off up to Dublin tomorrow to catch the last U2 gig in Croke Park, I will try and get some posting done tomorrow anyway. I will also post photos of the gig when I get back! Posted pics here.
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Satellite photos of Ireland and the world
Google continue to update their satellite image database, Ireland is now in higher resolution, along with large tracts of the the rest of the world. Cork, Dublin and other areas are in very high resolution. Here are some of the satellite maps websites: Google Maps – Ireland View Larger Map Microsoft Live Maps – with…
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Software piracy 'seen as normal'
This seems to be the widespread perception anyway: Two UK university researchers found that people did not see downloading copyrighted material as theft.
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Poll: In wake of Iraq war, allies prefer China to U.S.
A little disturbing: In Britain, almost two-thirds of Britons, 65 percent, saw China favorably, compared with 55 percent who held a positive view of the United States. In France, 58 percent had an upbeat view of China, compared with 43 percent who felt that way about the U.S. The results were nearly the same in…
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When did Bush decide to invade Iraq?
Fred Kaplan with a good piece on the Downing Street memo: The key passage of the memo—which lays down the minutes of a July 23, 2002, British Cabinet meeting and was obtained and published by the Times of London just last month—is also the one that’s gained the greatest notoriety: C reported on his recent…
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Marketers Scan Blogs
How to make money from us bloggers? Now, a growing number of marketers are using new technology to analyze blogs and other “consumer-generated media” — a category that includes chat groups, message boards and electronic forums — to hear what is being said online about new products, old ad campaigns and aging brands. Purveyors of…
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Confirmed: All Typepad blogs blocked in China
Rebecca MacKinnon has the story, all Typepad blogs have been blocked inside China. Gosh the Chinese are getting really worried…Rebecca notes: All Typepad blogs, including this one, cannot be seen in China. (Note that Blogger has been blocked in China for some time.) I asked some people in China to attempt accessing this blog and…
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Recovery still has a way to go
Bill Clinton writes on the anniversary of the Tsunami in Asia in the IHT. Worth a look.
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EU's problem with 'no'
William Pfaff writes about the EU, saying ironically that what the EU really wants is a new electorate. Europe’s leaders have reacted to the European Union’s current crisis in a wonderfully Brechtian manner. As the German Communist poet sardonically put it, after the East German workers’ revolt against the Communist authorities in June 1953, the…
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