Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
-
Multiplayer GTA3
My dreams have come true. Some clever people out there have made a hack for GTA called Multi-Theft Auto. It allows people to play in the GTA city in a multiplayer environment. As /. notes: Now I can streetrace and play Liberty City Survivor with real people, not just use the “crazy pedestrians” cheat. Rockstar…
-
Test post
Test post with nokia 6630!
-
Mostafa Moeen blogs
Iranian (living in Toronto) blogger Hossein Derakhshan reports that Iranian presidential candidate Mostafa Moeen is blogging. The comments on Hossein’s blog don’t seem all that encouraging though.
-
Data retention slips into law
Karlin wrote a great piece on data retention legislation in last Friday’s Irish Times. The best part of the article was the final paragraph. And so here we are, the best little banana-republic style state in the EU, sneaking in the laws we don’t want the citizens to see, willing to risk the State’s future…
-
Europe is risking silence to end its longest war
Jonathan Steele writes in the Guardian about Europe’s silence on the situation in Chechnya. In short, Europe is replacing its old policy of publicly denouncing Russia over Chechnya. At the current session of the UN Human Rights Commission, the EU has not proposed a resolution this year. But, diplomats argue, the silence is not motivated…
-
Coal in a nice shade of green
Thomas Homer-Dixon and S. Julio Friedmann suggest using a new-type energy source known as gasification. What is it? Here’s how it works: In a type of power plant called an integrated gasification combined-cycle facility, we change any fossil fuel, including coal, into a superhot gas that is rich in hydrogen – and in the process…
-
Easter
I hope everyone is enjoying the long weekend, I am so my blogging has been very light! I did finally decide on the Nokia 6630, a full report when I get the phone on Tuesday.
-
NI madness
Last Sunday, the number one item on RTEâs flagship news programme, This Week, informed the nation that the McCartney sisters were back in Ireland and would later travel on to Belfast. The next day, another RTE headline informed us that a Belfast fireman had been hit on the elbow with a stone. There are many…
-
A bloggin
Did lots of reading this evening folks, and now I’m too tired to blog. But the list of stuff to blog grows in my bookmarks… I have noted Eamonn’s interest in Caucasian politics, and read the Economist article he refers to. I have more information from the region that has not made it to the…
-
Test post
Test post from nokia 6230
Got any book recommendations?