Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Bank holiday
I hope everyone is having a good bank holiday weekend! 🙂
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North Korea: The War Game
In the latest issue of the Atlantic is an article by Scott Stossel on how the US would fight a war with North Korea. He details the history of the regime in North Korea back to 1993 when they supposedly first started making efforts to build nuclear weapons: The seeds of the current crisis were…
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Kaplan responds
I meant to post this a while ago, but Atlantic journalist Robert Kaplan has responded to criticism of his recent cover story. He deals with some of the issues raised, that I mentioned here. It seems Kaplan was mostly responding to Thomas Barnett, as he deals specifically with issues Barnett raised. Kaplan notes: The article…
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Tom Cruise on Oprah
Is he on cocaine, drunk or just plain crazy? Update, June 17, 2005: The video link appears not to be working now, so try this one instead.
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Barroso versus Paxman
Yet another showdown. The Commission President sounds like Roman Prodi just after the Irish rejection of the Nice Treaty. Nice platitudes about how he ‘respects’ the decision of the people – but the intention seems clear now. The Treaty will not be binned. The plan is to get it passed by at least 20 countries…
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Newsnight weather on Have I Got News for You
If, like me, you are a fan of Newsnight, then you will find this clip very funny. It all stems back to the brief time that Jeremy Paxman did the weather forecast. His jems include: “Rain except in those places that don’t have rain” “Take an umbrella with you tomorrow” “It’s a veritable Smorgasbord, rain,…
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Defusing Iran’s Bomb
Henry Sokolski, executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center in Washington, has a lengthy piece in Policy Review on Iran. He argues that were Iran to attain Nuclear weapons capability there would be three major repurcussions: Even more nuclear proliferation. Iran’s continued insistence that it acquired its nuclear capabilities legally under the Nuclear Nonproliferation…
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Blogging Becomes A Corporate Job
A job in blogging, a new trend? A small but growing number of businesses are hiring people to write blogs, otherwise known as Web logs, or frequently updated online journals. Companies are looking for candidates who can write in a conversational style about timely topics that would appeal to customers, clients and potential recruits. ……
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Deepthroat outed?
“I’m The Guy They Called Deep Throat”, or so says the headline in Vanity Fair. It seems to be the answer to the question many have posed over the last 30 or so years, the Washington Post have apparently confirmed it: The Washington Post today confirmed that W. Mark Felt, a former number-two official at…
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Google releases Earth Beta
This software looks amazing… I wonder after watching the webcast of their factory tour, whether they will succeed in their aim of organising the world’s information within about 300 years. With countries like France in the way I just can’t see it happening.
Got any book recommendations?