Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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America needs a China strategy
More debate on China, this time from Tom Manning, a senior partner with Bain, a global consulting firm, and a long-time resident of Hong Kong. He is worth quoting at length here: In all these matters, the U.S. tendency has been to flip-flop between treating China as friend and foe. Our actions defy coherent categorization.…
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Bookies pay out for Big Brother nookie
Michelle and Stu got it on the other day, and the bookies have been forced to pay up. Yes I do watch Big Brother.
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Technorati Chief as CNN Expert
Dan reports that CNN have hired Dave Sifry of Technorati as a talking head in the lead up to the conventions…interesting development.
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"Murder Murder"
Murder Murder is a well written track from the Slim Shady EP. This song reveals Eminems great writing skills.
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Darfur Genocide
New blog has been set up by a bloke who dropped me a mail to inform me. I watched Hilary Andersson’s report on BBC news tonight, and was pretty shell shocked after it. I’m not an aid worker, I’m not a doctor, and I’m definately not well off. So what can I do to help?…
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IPV6 on the way
IPV6 has been added to some root servers, it could take up to 20 years before its fully implemented: Vinton Cerf of the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said the next-generation protocol, IPv6, had been added to its root server systems, making it possible for every person or device to have an…
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Gamers, check under hood because Doom 3 is coming
Thinking of getting the new Doom 3? You might need to buy a new computer first, the minimum spec (you will need alot more) is: A 1.5-gigahertz Intel Pentium 4 chip or AMD Athlon 1500. 384 megabytes of memory. Two gigabytes of hard drive space. An nVidia GeForce 3 graphics card…
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Google's fraud squad battles phantom clicks
I mentioned this story a while back, it seems that Google is trying its best to fight fraudulent ad clicking on its adsense program. As time goes on no doubt the clickers and the search engines will become much more sophisticated. Google declined an interview for this report, citing the mandatory “quiet period” before its…
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Mars rover finds that water persisted
The evidence continues to grow. It looks increasingly like there may have been very large amounts of liquid water on Mars over a very long period of time. And if there was, the possibility of life existing, now or before, increases dramatically.
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Saudi forces clash with militants
More goings on in Riyadh, oil prices may never be stable again, so long as this continues.
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