Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Andrew Gilligan
Wow, Andrew Gilligan was certainly a nervous fellow interviewed by Gavin Esler on BBC Newsnight tonight. Still sticking to his guns though.
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The EU's foolish idea of selling arms to China
Reginald Dale, editor of the policy quarterly European Affairs, and a media fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University has a curious piece in today’s IHT. In it he criticises the EU for considering reopening arms trade with China. He warns that if the EU takes such a course, it could lead to a…
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Eminem: a major influence in hip hop history
Whether people like to admit it or not, Eminem has influenced hip hop history in a major way. Since the death of Tupac, he is the rapper who has influenced the hip hop scene most.
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Iraq police swoop on 'criminals'
Sounds like the new Iraqi regime is trying to kick ass. Police in Iraq have detained at least 525 suspected criminals in their biggest co-ordinated operation since the US invasion, officials say. Some 500 Iraqi police staged a series of raids in Baghdad in an effort to clean up the capital’s streets, interior ministry sources…
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Bulgaria hostage killed in Iraq
It appears that one of the Bulgarian hostages has been killed, perhaps beheaded. A video will no doubt become available on the Internet soon, as will graphics pictures, Nick Berg all over again. Here is the BBC report: Arab satellite television channel al-Jazeera said the captors threatened to kill a second Bulgarian within the next…
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A Troll Apart: Comments Endangered
Dan is having some serious troll problems, and is considering closing comments for good. Darn trolls.
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Turning the tables on Nigeria's e-mail conmen
Kevin Drum had this excellent story from the BBC on how some people are fighting back against those Nigerian 419 email scams. Some hilarious stuff in the BBC report. Read it. John Kushiner has also been emailing them back.
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Blog party roundup
Well I haven’t written much yet about the blog party in Dublin last Saturday. But many of the others have. Dick has awarded me the yellow jersey for somehow managing not to get drunk after 9 pints of Bulmers. I am not quite sure how I did either, do they water down Bulmers in Dublin…
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More blogs
Dick links to more blogs, including one of my recent finds. Interesting additions.
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Eminem gets his satellite radio station
Eminem will have his own channel on satellite radio starting this fall, a major provider announced Monday:
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