Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Myers causes a storm
Kevin Myers has finally lost the plot. Writing in the Irish Times(sub. required), he attacks teenagers who, as he says, Consciously embark upon a career of mothering bastards because it seems a good way of getting money and accommodation from the State. Despite massive public and media reaction, Mr. Myers has (perhaps wisely) apparently gone…
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Eason Jordan and Kate Adie?
I have been following the huge coverage surrounding “Easongate”, and what he did or did not say about the US military targeting journalists in Iraq. For those of you unfamiliar with the news, and so big has the story been on all the top blogs, there is now a blog devoted entirely to the story.…
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The Cell chip
The launch of the Cell ship maybe the biggest event in computing power since the dazzling launch of the Intel Pentium all those years ago. Can Intel be dethroned?
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Q and A
Did anyone catch Questions and Answers tonight? The McGuinness vs Durkan, O’Dea bout was pretty interesting. Am I the only one that feels that the Sinn Fein itself is imploding? I have never seen McGuinness so much on the defensive, and so much under attack. He seems like he may be buckling under the pressure.…
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EU blogging
I should have mentioned this earlier, Margot Wallstrom, Vice-President of the European Commission, has started a blog. She really needs to start categorising, and posting a little more regularly if she wants to build a readership.
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Dethroning King Gillette
Robert X. Cringely wrote this piece a couple of weeks back and it really hit home to me about the future of digital media. It is trying to predict the future, and I think he may well be right about where we will be in 5 years time. Mac Mini is certainly interesting – here…
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David Brooks: Europe and America: A tale of two systems
David Brooks on US-EU differences.
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky: Letter from a Russian prison
The former head of Yukos with a letter to the outside world. He warns: I have already realized that wealth, and especially vast wealth, does not in itself make a person free. As a co-owner of Yukos, I had to make enormous efforts to protect this wealth. I had to limit myself in everything that…
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A humanist future: Now that God is dead
Richard Holloway on Nietzsche and God. I will quote the whole thing(except the poem): The madman in Nietzsche’s “Thus Spake Zarathustra,” who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours and ran to the market to proclaim the death of God to the scoffing bystanders, realized he had come too early: “My time is not…
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Le Pen WWII remark triggers probe
The French investigate something Le Pen said.
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