Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Poetry I would like to share with you
In my opinion, my friend Timothy Wright from Warren, who is also a huge Eminem fan, is gifted for poetry. I like the texts he has written and I would like to share them with you.
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Street Freestyler (freestyle, by me)
Nobodys iller than this street killa
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In memory of D12's deceased member Bugz
For news on the death of Proof visit the Eminem Blog Karnail Pitts aka Robert Beck aka Bugz was born in 1978 around May. He was loved and appreciated by all the D12 members for his rapping skills. His life ended tragically on May the 21st in 1999: he was only 21 when he died.…
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Fallujah
An anonymous person left the following comment in relation to Dick and Jon’s analysis of casualties in Fallujah. Such a lengthy comment has been rewarded with being posted – it adds to the debate at least. Say you’re on the street in fallujah and a man of about 60 comes out with an AK-47 and…
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Jeff Jarvis on Rumsfeld
Jeff Jarvis is live blogging a dinner that Don Rumsfeld is attending. We can only hope that he’s as tough on journalists’ bosses as he is on journalists.
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A tale of two soldiers
Kevin Drum has some insight into the military records of both George W Bush and John Kerry. I think his analysis is correct – the Republican game here is pretty low, and I don’t think they can win the argument.
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'Einstein' probe heads into space
This is a huge amount of money to spend – but it might well be worth it. I am looking forward to the results – my bet is on Einstein being right. I do remember on Carl Sagan’s excellent Cosmos series that an experiment was performed on how time slows down as you move. An…
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Hard drive speed limit is reached
The limit of hard drives has apparently been reached. But at least its not likely to affect the production of drives for some time: The bad news is that this upper limit means that the fastest data can be written using changes in magnetisations is 435,000 million bits every second. The good news is that…
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Dublin Elevation
Feel like controlling some beams of light above Dublin? Get your 15 seconds of arty farty stuff here. I do wonder what May 1st will be like in Dublin, perhaps I should take a trip up.
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Blair: a no vote means no
Blair’s remarks are curious to those of us in Ireland who voted No in both identical Nice referenda. He seems to be talking around the issue rather than directly answering the questions posed. I would imagine that if the UK does vote No to the referendum that Blair will go back to the EU and…
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