Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The Iraqi solution for stopping rebels
This is a long and interesting take on some of the more ‘elite’ members of the Iraqi security forces. General Adnan, as he is known, is the leader of Iraq’s most fearsome counterinsurgency force. It is called the Special Police Commandos and consists of about 5,000 troops. They have fought the insurgents in Mosul, Ramadi,…
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NOAA issues space weather warning
Things could get hairy – expect some satellites to stop working. It is a 9 on the K-index. Or in other words, hold onto your hats: Possible impacts from such a geomagnetic storm include widespread power system voltage control problems; some grid systems may experience complete collapse or blackouts. Transformers may experience damage. Spacecraft operations…
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More crazy islands in Dubai
Not happy with just the Palm Island, Palm Island Jebel Ali, and the World – Dubai are going to build two more, the half-moon shaped one to the left, and the Palm Island Deira to the far right. The first Palm has 100% of the groundwork done while The World is at 50%. Certainly makes…
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Motorola Debuts First Ever Nano Emissive Flat Screen Display Prototype
I have seen the future, and it is incredibly cheap but high quality displays. âMotorolaâs NED technology is demonstrating full color video with good response time,â? said Barry Young, VP and CFO of DisplaySearch, a leading flat panel display market research and consulting company. âAnd according to a detailed cost model analysis conducted by our…
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Bush, in Georgia, aims talk at Putin
I failed to give sufficient space towards the Bush visit to Georgia – but I have been looking back at some of the coverage. Bush’s warning to Putin, his host in Red Square only 24 hours before at the 60th anniversary celebration of the defeat of Nazi Germany, was focused on two separatist enclaves within…
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Blair Backs U.N. Intervention for Iran
Normally when I find interesting articles I bookmark them in Firefox for addition to my blog later. Last Saturday I added an article from the IHT titled “Blair backs possible UN action on Iran”. The said article appears to have disappeared. It is now titled “Iran court frees a top dissident“. A quick search for…
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Blogging, as in Slogging
Dan Drezner went off to Maui for his brothers wedding, and got two people to guest blog for him. David Greenberg was one of them, and he wrote about his experience in the New York Times. I like the phrase “electronic black hole”. When Dan Drezner guest-blogged at the Washington Monthly site, one reader wished…
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WPexport 0.2
Finally a plugin for WordPress that allows seamless exporting to an MT and SQL format. I did succeed in exporting before but it was a very roundabout way. I am thinking of testing out Drupal.
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The Daily Show and Blogs
As ever Jon Stewart does a great job of dissing the US television news networks – this time in relation to their coverage of the blogosphere. You can watch the clip here in Windows Media format. Jeff Jarvis has his take on it here. The video is hilarious, and I agree with everything Stewart says.…
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The uses and abuses of history
I meant to post about this last week, but it’s been a busy one. It always fascinates me how so much of what we learn in school about the Second World War is entirely devoted to how the US and Britain fought it. The battle of Stalingrad was an afterthought in the syllabus I was…
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