Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Business Week and blogging
This is big. The influence of this publication should not be underestimated. BusinessWeek have gone all bloggy – no they have actually gone completely blog mad. Their permanent blog can be found here and it all looks good. Choice quotes: Go ahead and bellyache about blogs. But you cannot afford to close your eyes to…
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Alien asteroid belt detected around Sun-like star
An alien asteroid belt may have been spotted circling a mature star nearby. The observations, made by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, reveal a dense ring of dust around the star that might arise from rocks colliding and smashing each other apart. Alternatively, the dust could come from a âsupercometâ? almost the size of Pluto, said…
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Space tourism industry to run 'like fast-food franchises'
I expect that somewhere within my natural lifetime, the oppurtunity not just to go on a sub-orbital space flight will be realised, but I might even get to orbit the Earth a few times. I just can’t wait. Burt Rutan is the guy making it all happen, he envisions franchising out his technology.
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Helicopter shot down near Baghdad
Sad news indeed. Is it me or does it always come across as more tragic when it’s an air accident? Same goes for commercial airlines too, somehow I think one can more closely related to it.
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China and future wars
Robert Kaplan said some things that got my interest in an interview he did recently on BookTV. He recently spent an amount of time on a US missile cruiser in the Pacific, and believes that the next major military buildup may be in the field of naval power. His remarks are well worth reading: China…
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Biological Activity on Mars?
Could Mars be biologically active? We might have to wait until humans go there to get a definitive answer.
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Murdoch on blogs
There has been lots of coverage of Murdoch’s speech, Eamonn rounds it up. You can read the speech here. Here’s the whole bit: Thank you very much, Rick for that kind introduction. When a newspaper proprietor faces this many editors in one room, usually it means only one thing: a demand for a pay increase.…
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Enterprise cancelled – really
I was actually getting to rather like it. But all hopes are lost as TrekUnited have ended their campaign to fund a last season of Star Trek Enterprise.
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Google Maps Ireland, etc.
Well there are no satellite images yet, but Google have got a detailed map of the United Kingdom, but Northern Ireland and the Republic are more or less limited to Primary routes. All the major cities have been covered though, Cork being the most important one of course.
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Salam Pax vs George Galloway
Former blogger Salam Pax turned up at the manifesto launch for the Respect party and asked why Mr Galloway wanted the immediate withdrawal of occupying troops from Iraq. To which Galloway replied: We are not going to agree on this. You are a supporter of the war. You are a supporter of the occupation and…
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