Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Michael Moore starts blog (soon)
The controversial Michael Moore will start blogging soon. I will look forward to reading him, though I doubt comments will be allowed. I find what he says here very interesting: For now, please know the following: Every single fact I state in “Fahrenheit 9/11” is the absolute and irrefutable truth. This movie is perhaps the…
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Does Slim Shady haunt D12?
Does Slim Shady haunt D12 ? To me, the answer is clearly yes. Why? Because you could hardly dissociate Eminem from his fellows. They grew up in the same hood, used to rap together, shared their pains and successes.
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What You Should Know About Download.Ject
Microsoft have finally released a patch for IE, after a very long wait. Too late, I have long since moved to Mozilla Firefox. It seems I am not the only one, with Mozilla reporting a significant spike in downloads of Firefox. This comes after the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team recommended…
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Cassini Spacecraft Arrives at Saturn
A bit late posting this, but I was delighed that Cassini had successfully entered orbit around Saturn. It is amazing the accuracy with which it was achieved. I am looking forward to hundreds of thousands of new astronomy images to choose from for my desktop.
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The Trillion-Barrel Tar Pit
I spotted this story on Slashdot last week, intersting for the oil debate going on for the last few weeks. Alberta sits atop the biggest petroleum deposit outside the Arabian peninsula – as many as 300 billion recoverable barrels and another trillion-plus barrels that could one day be within reach using new retrieval methods. (By…
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Hubble discovers 100 new planets
Great news from Hubble, if confirmed, and another reason to work on keeping it in orbit. The Hubble Space Telescope may have discovered as many as 100 new planets orbiting stars in our galaxy.
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Paul Krugman on Michael Moore
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman with his verdict on Fahrenheit 9/11. He pretty much supports Moore: And for all its flaws, “Fahrenheit 9/11” performs an essential service. It would be a better movie if it didn’t promote a few unproven conspiracy theories, but those theories aren’t the reason why millions of people who aren’t…
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Is Kim Mathers gonna make it?
Is Kim gonna make it ? It seems like Kim Mathers has been in trouble since a long time. Shes been arrested for cocaine charges while Eminem was touring in Europe last year. Since June 2003 till now, Eminems ex wife has made the headlines. The tabloids havent stopped talking about her.
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Hm
Just can’t be arsed today. More tomorrow though.
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End of month blog stats
Well I just managed to beat last months stats, but pretty much the same. 64,000 visits, 224,000 hits. Not sure how many of those are bots though. And I am into my blog anniversary month! Yeah!
Got any book recommendations?