Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Firefox a liberal browser?
This one from Kevin: Steeph steps forward with the following data based on the usual small sample size beloved of home-brewed bloggish research: *72% of right-leaning blog readers use Internet Explorer compared to only 60% of left-leaning blog readers. *89% of right-leaning blog readers use Windows compared to only 80% of left-leaning blog readers. I…
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Becker, Posner to start blogging
Two heavy weights have entered the blogosphere, this should be good… Dan Drezner comments…
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Is Turkey the next Argentina?
Could Turkey be plunged into a fiscal nightmare? Erinc Yeldan, professor in the department of economics at Bilkent University in Ankara and Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington seem to think so. Will this threaten future Turkey accession to the EU? They note: But beneath these numbers, a…
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Europe: Al Qaeda's next target?
Will Europe see more Madrid and Istanbul style attacks? Many analysts are saying that Europe is at greater risk than the US. Ursula Mueller, a German diplomat with terror expertise, said that European-based terrorists were under pressure; terror operations have been averted in London, Paris and Madrid. “But they continue to focus on catastrophic attacks,”…
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Poland chases after Ireland's pot of gold
Kevin Cullen in the IHT writes about Poland, and their aspirations to copy Ireland’s success. Among some of the similarities between Poland and Ireland: Patrycjusz Sliwinski, 23, who proudly explained that he was named after Ireland’s patron saint, is writing his University of Wroclaw master’s thesis on Oscar Wilde. He became an Hibernophile by reading…
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Eminem
I have spun off Isabelle’s posts on Eminem into her own blog. Now how do I export the category to the other blog?
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U2 on Jonathan Ross
I really did enjoy Jonathan Ross’ interview with U2 last night. I have a huge amount of respect for U2 just for their talent alone. Bono went on to sing two live songs in the studio – I have never seen the Jonathan Ross audience so animated.
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Praise indeed
Jaysus there are alot more Irish bloggers out there than I thought – and they all manage to remain fairly hidden because they don’t seem to link to the rest of the Irish ones. Alot of us do use Technorati – it is now a much more reliable service than it used to be. So…
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Irish Bloggers Xmas Bash?
Back in July many Irish bloggers gathered in the Market Bar in Dublin for a few pints and some beer. And some more beer. The two stragglers – myself and Dick O’Brien drunkenly agreed that Irish blog events should happen on a bi-annual basis. The time is fast approaching for another Irish blog event –…
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New PC
My 4 year old Gateway is finally seeing its final days. It will shortly be broken up, and the best bits sold off. A PIII 500 with 288Mb of RAM and a quaint 6.8Gb hard drive. All praise to Gateway – not once in 4 years did it give a problem. Not once. My new…
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