Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Boycott "The Day after Tomorrow"?
Dan Drezner is calling for a boycott of the new film – I for one love this kind of stuff. As much as alot of is plain nonsense – I’m a sucker for big epic special effects pop-corn movies. I had the same buzz with Independence Day, and no doubt it will be the same…
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How Bloggers might make a living
Tom Mangan has an interesting post from last week, on how bloggers might be able to make money – ghost blogging. He thinks that eventually famous people might start blogging, perhaps as a publicity tool. And since they might not have the time, they might hire fans to do the blogging for them. His advice:…
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The Geneva Convention and the War on Terror
Kevin Drum poses the question: Should the Geneva Conventions apply to captured Taliban fighters? And if you think they shouldn’t, why not? I think he may also mean to terrorists in general, not just Taliban fighters. He also adds that: If you want to argue that it’s because war on terrorism is somehow more critical…
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Colin Powell on Meet the Press
In case you missed it, Kevin Drum has the transcript from the rather funny episode of Meet the Press, where one of Colin Powell’s aides goes a bit crazy and ends an interview in the middle of a question. Powell seemed a bit surprised – and wanted to answer the question. She wanted to end…
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More links out of the blue
Ingrid Jones has linked to me, I think she may have found me through Clive Soley’s weblog, though I can’t be sure. She has a nice blog – check it out. Time to update the blogroll.
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Making the judgement
Dan Gillmor has pointed to two very interesting pieces that talk about issues raised on this blog last week. Jay Rosen and Jeff Jarvis discuss the ins and outs – it certainly brings together all the arguments put forward on this blog. Go read them. I wanted to articulate this myself, but Jay has done…
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They may look like him, but they are not the Real Slim Shady
Because they try to imitate his clothing, his body attitude, because they dyed their hair blonde, many lookalikes may pretend to resemble Eminem. A few of them can be viewed on the following websites:
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Nick Berg editing
I have removed the links to the Berg video and pictures. I don’t think there’s any need to keep it there any longer –
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Irish student decodes US documents?
Slashdot has a story from the Register that Claire from DCU had a look at trying to find out what the blanked out words in declassified documents said. Sounds like she was pretty successful.
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This misadventure happened to a 12 years old Eminem fan
This misadventure actually happened to a 12 years old Eminem fan in 2000: http://www.jsonline.com/news/ozwash/sep00/juke12091100a.asp
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