Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • St. Patrick's Day on The Daily Show

    Bono gets the piss taken out of him as ever, and it is very funny.

  • NASA's Spitzer Marks Beginning of New Age of Planetary Science

    And so it begins. For the first time light has been captured from two known planets orbiting stars other than our Sun. Within the next decade we will likely see new arrays of space telescopes built, that will not only be able to identify extra solar planets, but will be able to photograph and catalogue…

  • What women want

    Sarah Carey will be on telly tomorrow (Tuesday), 2.30pm, and was in the Sunday Times this week. Were the words ‘what women want’ the final words of Sigmund Freud, or is that an urban legend?

  • Praise indeed

    The Interwebnet thingy can be quite crazy sometimes, especially when praise like this pops out of the blue: one of the sites i try and read every now and then is Gavin’s Blog. i found it while looking for respectable foreign policy blogs. turns out this guy’s a decent writer and analyzes info pretty well,…

  • Promoted

    Peter has promoted both me and Back Seat Drivers into the realm of ‘the old stinking ninth’ and ‘cow demons’ respectively. This comes on foot of Jon Ihle appearing in Magill, and myself on foot of some Indymedia/FI linkage.

  • Newsnight now…

    Interesting stuff on Newsnight tonight, I hope they archive this one: Our Science Editor, Susan Watts, has been speaking to the banned Chinese film director, Li Yang. His new film, “Blind Shaft”, was shot in the small private coal mines of northern China. Unofficial figures suggest up to 10,000 deaths a year occur in China’s…

  • Ourmedia

    The people behind archive.org have launched a new blog/hosting site called Ourmedia.org. It has been slashdotted so it having trouble. They promise free hosting for life.

  • It's prime time for blogs

    USA Today have a feature on how CNN have added a blog section to their Inside Politics segment. MSNBC have been doing it for a while, but it’s interesting to see how these things are unfolding across the pond. [via Jeff] I guess I can’t complain, I have featured on radio a couple of times…

  • Yahoo buys Flickr

    So my photos are now hosted by Yahoo…

  • France Issues Emergency AD On Airbus Rudders

    France have issued an Emergency Airworthiness Directive in relation to the Airbus A300 and A310. This is after the incident blogged about last week.

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