Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Light blogging
Everyone is quiet the last week or so, as is to be expected. As for me, I have been enjoying the flu dose that’s been going around – posts should be back to normal in 2005. Happy New Year!
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On Stinginess again
Dan Drezner has a good round up of the stinginess debate.
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On Stinginess
I really don’t know what Glenn is getting so worked up about. He is persistently misrepresenting what was said. Is anyone fact checking Glenn? Matthew correctly points out: Besided that, a word on the “stingy” issue. What the UN official actually said was that rich countries including the US are stingy with aid money. Whether…
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Amazon donations
Go here, and click refresh every few seconds….amazing.
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Many die in Baghdad police ambush
This marks a new tactic by the insurge… terrorist murderers. Insurgents lured Iraqi policemen to a house in west Baghdad and set off a huge amount of explosives, killing at least 29 people, seven of them police. It’s estimated that 1 tonne of explosives were wired to the building. It does seem like alot of…
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Award for most tasteless headline goes to…
…CNN for this corker: Tsunamis shatter celebrity holidays [Via Secondbreakfast]
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Tsunami death toll tops 80,000
The toll keeps going up, and will probably top 100,000. Some pretty harrowing scenes on TV – bloggers are doing their best on describing events, as sites like Instapundit report. Donations are approaching a quarter of a billion dollars. You can do your bit here.
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The Coming Atlantic Mega-Tsunami
This one from Slashdot: It’s not news at all that scientists predict an eventual “mega-tsunami” that will sweep across the Atlantic that will still be anything from 60 to 150 ft high when it hits the U.S. Eastern seaboard. This Old News, however, suddenly seems fresh. Like an asteroid hit, it could be millenia away,…
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Pentagon: Rumsfeld misspoke on Flight 93 crash
One for my September 11 conspiracy theory category: In the speech, Rumsfeld made a passing reference to United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania after passengers attempted to stop al Qaeda hijackers. But in his remarks, Rumsfeld referred to the “the people who attacked the United States in New York, shot down the plane…
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2004 MN4, Even Higher Probability
Unlucky for some maybe, put Friday April the 13th 2029 in your diary. The chance of this asteroid hitting earth is now 1 in 45. It is pretty small though – it would leave a crater about 4 miles wide, and would probably hit water, perhaps leading to a few million deaths. On the other…
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