Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Piers is gone
The Mirror is now in disarray, apparently having been successfully duped by a hoaxer. Morgan was summarily sacked and escorted from the building he had run for some time. Who was behind the hoax? Did Morgan orchestrate it, and got caught on the devil in the detail? Or was he duped? It will be interesting…
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Private spaceship almost in space
Nearly there, this is great news for space exploration. Hopefully we will not have to rely on state agencies for too much longer.
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Library of Alexandria discovered
The BBC is reporting that the lost Library of Alexander has been found, great news if the whole site can be fully explored. Carl Sagan was fascinated with the books that may have been present in the library – perhaps they could find me the lost parts of Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound – or any of…
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Some reaction to posting the video
The Fence has some reaction to my posting of the video – this week the most searched for thing on all the search engines apparently. It shows, about 13,000 people went through my site in the last 2 days searching for it. The Fence disagrees with Niall, noting: And I have to say that I…
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Good Die Young
The D12 song from the D12 World album Good Die Young, which is dedicated to D12s deceased member Bugz sounds like a prayer and also like a big complaint.
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Standing still (freestyle, by me)
You may claim your rhymes to be so ill, but Im the only one to be standing still No need to swallow the pill to chill, Im standing still You ask why ? Dawg, no need to claim that I have the fame
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The Nick Berg video
Readers Niall and John have expressed dissatisfaction with my linking to the pictures and videos of the murder of Nick Berg. As always I appreciate input from anyone, especially regular contributors like Niall and John. Niall notes: I don’t think there’s any reason why anyone outside of intelligence or the media should see this tape,…
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Blogging on Wifi
Wohoo my first blog entry through Wifi, available free in Cork airport! 🙂 It’s fast as well, going about 60k/sec . Strange that I was writing about this technology becoming this prevalent back in 2001 – and now its here.
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Detroit rapper DJ Rick
DJ Rick is a Puerto Rican rapper from Detroit. He used to live in the most dangerous parts of Detroit.
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The video and pictures of Nick Berg
Andrew Sullivan has been getting a bit livid lately. Here he is yesterday: Here they are – absolutely horrifying beyond belief. My heart goes out to his family. We will now see what the mainstream media is made of. You think we will see “slideshows” of this? I can see why he is indignant, it…
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