Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Quote of the day
This one has been broadcast on the news headlines today: A Co Kildare man who attacked a policewoman with an iron bar in Lisburn police station 18 months ago and blinded her in the eye has been jailed for seven years. As oppose to blinding her in the ear, nose or leg. Surely it should…
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B&W
I was struck by this photo, one I don’t remember seeing before. I am always struck by photos of this nature, I think because this happened in ‘modern’ times it makes it more real. But photos from the First or Second World Wars also show people who are about to die, and you know they…
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Failed test
Ryan failed his driving test, and well, he ain’t too happy. It appears the tester doesn’t know the rules of the road. Thoughts on this anyone, similar experiences?
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Upgraded to 1.5
Still sorting some style problems but overall the upgrade went smoothly.
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New theme
I am still debating an upgrade to WordPress 1.5 BETA, and will be using Tom’s advice on the issue. I have also stolen his CSS 🙂
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Nada corruption?
An article by Leslie Mallory in yesterday’s Sunday Independent talks about planning corruption in Spain. The general tone of the article is ‘If you think things are bad in Ireland, take a look at Spain.’ In other words Spain has a greater problem with corruption than Ireland. The article spoke of local politicians appearing in…
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Lone Gunmen and 9/11
I just came across this interesting story. I do remember that as X-Files was winding up, a spin off series, the Lone Gunmen, was piloted. I think it was shown over here on Sky One, but I never got to see it. It was based on the three geek-types fron the X-Files. Curiously the pilot…
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The Eason Jordan story
Michelle Malkin has a great review of the entire story, beginning to end…
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Irish Times blog article follow up
Robin O’Brien-Lynch’s article in the Irish Times has sparked some controversy in the Irish blogosphere. In general, people have been taken aback by what some considered to be negative comments in the article. Bluire is not happy at all… And anyway, who is Robin OBrien to be telling the Irish Blogging community that we need…
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Hewitt mention
Hugh is great at following up on what bloggers are reading his new book, including linking to me when all I did was mention that I had got the book! An instant increase in visitors resulted. Interesting the book is proving very popular, going on this story at least: “Trying to kick a persistent book-buying…
Got any book recommendations?