Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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You know you are addicted to blogging when
…you have bookmarked your favourite blogs on your phone, read them at work, and then blog about that fact from your phone. More words thrown into the digital abyss…
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Another Irish blog get-together?
Is it that time again? It was suggested back in January that we make Irish blog-bashes a quarterly event – and its almost June now. I am putting it out there for discussion, since in that time the Irish blog community has increased in size dramatically, and aggregators like POTB and Irishblogs.ie have been formed,…
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Sick..
I have been struck down with a cold – but I did manage to listen to all the coverage of the ‘kebabs’ incident. I thought the Turkish man on Joe Duffy laughing about the whole thing was quite funny. But I tend to fall in line with Dick and Richard on the substantive issue. On…
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PC for sale
I have a reasonably high spec Dell Dimension here for sale, P4 3Ghz, 1024Mb DDR2, 160GB SATA hard drive, 256Mb nVidia GeForce 6800 GTO, 16x DVDRW, 48x CDRW, 17′ Flat Panel, XP Home. Reasonable offers considered.
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Aircraft Carriers and Robert Kaplan
Kaplan’s Atlantic cover story has stirred quite a hornet’s nest of discussion. It stems from a rather heated response by Thomas Barnett. This led to it being reproduced by praktike over at Liberals Against Terrorism. Matthew Yglesias then got involved in the ‘aircraft carrier’ debate, if you can call it that. He also points to…
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John Simpson on Newsweek
BBC world affairs editor John Simpson adds his thoughts on the Newsweek debacle.
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A nice combo
A nice combination on a Monday afternoon. Maybe Khatami could do with some Murphy’s.
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New blogger
And I for one welcome our new Blinq overlord. I’d like to remind him that as a trusted blogger I could be helpful in rounding up others to toil in electronic black holes.
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CNN reports on Pew report
It is funny when CNN reports on something and can’t get a name right – how ironic that the report plays down the influence of blogs in relation to MSM. “What political bloggers are doing is following stories and then amplifying the hell out of them,” said Dan Gimor, author of “We the Media.” The…
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Desktop background
As ever, Rannie has some great photos that I use as desktop backgrounds. I am using this gorgeous one at the moment.
Got any book recommendations?