Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Google Wallet
Interesting news from the Wall Street Journal: Google Inc. this year plans to offer an electronic-payment service that could help the Internet-search company diversify its revenue and may heighten competition with eBay Inc.’s PayPal unit, according to people familiar with the matter. Exact details of the search company’s planned service are not known. But the…
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Irishcorruption.com
I will be tweaking and adding things for quite a while, I must say it is interesting to start a new weblog after running this one for so long! I expect it to take a good few weeks before the weblog resembles what I want it to look like. I have moved the domain to…
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Bill Hicks DVD
I finally got the Bill Hicks DVD, ‘Bill Hicks Live‘. A very reasonable price, and shipped promptly to Ireland. I highly recommend it, it includes One Night Stand, Relentless, and the classic Revelations.
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Official confirms Chechen horror
Depressing news indeed: A top human rights official in the Russian-backed administration in Chechnya says there are more than 50 mass graves in the troubled republic. Nurdi Nukhazhiyev told the BBC that tens of thousands of civilians had “disappeared” since 1999. Whither the international outcry?
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Most Earth-like exoplanet yet is discovered
News like this will become much more frequent in the next few years – until that one day, probably in my natural lifetime, when we will discover a pale blue dot. What do we do then, and what effect will it have on humanity? But the new âsuper-Earthâ? is by far the smallest planet seen…
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Japan, France working on new supersonic jet
It is a surprise to see France and Japan working together on this project – but I wish them the best of luck in it. New Scientist also has coverage.
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Iraqi Whirlwind
Austin Bay is detailing interesting times in Iraq. A bit to the right for some people, but interesting nonetheless.
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The End of Europe
Robert J. Samuelson in the Washington Post argues that: Unless Europe reverses two trends — low birthrates and meager economic growth — it faces a bleak future of rising domestic discontent and falling global power. Actually, that future has already arrived. A weak European economy is one reason that the world economy is shaky and…
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Catching up
I really have been very bad at posting lately, this is for a combination of reasons. I have noticed my monthly output has declined in May and now June, along with google crawls and visitor numbers. My reasons for not posting are not because I don’t want to, but usually because I have been either…
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New blog again
Ok it is starting to take a little shape. Looks like this will be a solo project, but I’ll try and keep my posting here regular too. God this will take time.
Got any book recommendations?