Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Microsoft's War on Bugs
Wired have an interview with Stephen Toulouse, Microsoft’s security program manager. He admits to using Mozilla Firefox. At least he has some balls I guess. Does anyone with sense use Internet Explorer anymore anyway?
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New look and software
I have taken the plunge and put my WordPress installation on my frontpage. I hope everyone likes it! Thanks to all that left comments after the post last week, I now have an idea how many regular readers there are. And it’s much more than I expected. 33 comments in 7 days, who would have…
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Five photons linked
Quantum computing another step closer: error correction. Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China, the University of Innsbruck in Austria, and the University of Heidelberg in Germany have entangled five photons. “Our experiment demonstrated for the first time the ability to manipulate five-particle entanglement,” said Jianwei Pan, a physics professor at the…
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Being clear about present dangers
Philip Bobbitt wrote a very good criticism of the current system of terror warnings a couple of weeks back. Have a read.
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PBS Frontline
The PBS program Frontline has linked to my US-EU relations category archive. I am in there with the Dissident Frogman, Iberian Notes and Almost A Diary. I shall have to start adding more to that archive now.
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Ten Mistakes Writers Don't See (But Can Easily Fix When They Do)
This one via An Oasis. Some good tips on writing, on more of the creative side it seems. Worth a look.
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Oil prices caught in a global storm of angst
This one has been sitting around waiting to be blogged for a while now. Steve A. Yetiv, professor of political science at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, and author of the forthcoming book “Crude Awakenings: Global Oil Security and American Foreign Policy”, writes about the price of oil. He points out: All this brings…
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William Pfaff: When the Marines make policy, Iraq burns
Will Pfaff believes the Marines are largely to blame for current problems in Iraq, not sure I agree with him on that one, interesting point of view nonetheless.
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Google, Shmoogle. The Biggest I.P.O.'s Went Unnoticed.
Randall Stross in the New York Times [Reg reqd] tells of the other IPOs this year that went unnoticed. He points out that it is only the trendy tech industry gets all the press comment while other bigger IPO’s receive scant attention. Some readers may have missed the news. Genworth’s was only the biggest initial…
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Neocons have Iran in their sights: William Pfaff
Will Pfaff muses on the situation developing in Iran. There seems to be increasing media comment on a likely intervention by US forces in Iran – prompted in part by stories that Iraqi Shia militias are being armed with advanced weaponry by the Iranian government. Worries over their nuclear facilities are also making headlines, while…
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