Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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AOL worker arrested in spam scheme
Here is an interesting way of making money. A software engineer at America Online was arrested Wednesday and charged with stealing AOL’s subscriber list and selling it to someone sending spam e-mail, federal prosecutors in New York said. According to the criminal complaint, Jason Smathers of Harpers Ferry, W. Va., used his inside knowledge of…
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Blogging: A Web Diary Tour
Dan Gillmor was on an NPR radio show the other day. You can listen to the show here. It also featured Lev Grossman *Staff writer for Timemagazine, author of recent article “Meet Joe Blog” Steve Rubel *Publishes the blog “Micro Persuasion” *Vice-president of client services with Cooper-Katz, a public relations firm in New York Ana…
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Blogging With The Boss's Blessing
Business Week has a good article on the increasing use of blogging in the workplace, using Microsoft as an example. For now, though, many are running the risk. In an era of fragmented media, with companies struggling to get their message out any which way, blogs are becoming a kind of undercover megaphone. One way…
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Dido and Eminem row over royalties
Singer Dido is said to have fallen out with rapper Eminem over payment of royalties.
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Still Don't Give A Fuck
Still Dont Give A Fuck is the last track of the Slim Shady LP. The song is deranging on purpose, provocative and made to piss you off. Slim Shady grabs the sharpest lyrical knife to rip you off with no mercy. The introduction to the song is particularly interesting. It shows that Eminem is not…
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'Star Wars': The sequel
The Boston Globe had a good editorial piece on the Star Wars project, worth a look. Instead of directing finite resources toward protecting America against likely threats, he is lavishing billions of dollars on a system that has not been tested under the realistic conditions that would obtain in the unlikely event America came under…
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Nicholas D. Kristof: Victims of Sudan's vicious purge
Nicholas Kristoff with another stirring article on the situation in Sudan. Go read it. Perhaps Americans truly don’t care about the hundreds of thousands of lives at stake – we have other problems, and Darfur is far away. But my hunch is that if we could just meet the victims, we would not be willing…
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The Daily Telegraph has new owners
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US admits rise in terror attacks
The BBC reports on the mistaken figures given by President Bush. The US has more than doubled its estimation of the number of people killed by terrorism last year. The state department said 625 people were killed in 2003, compared with the 307 it claimed in April. The Bush administration seized on the original report…
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'Anomalies' in first private spaceflight revealed
It appears that the first private space flight did not go as smoothly as we thought, but they did go into space afterall. Can’t be perfect firs time round. The flight of the first private astronaut was not as perfect as it first appeared a number of glitches occurred during the flight, some potentially…
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