Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Sony's new minidisc
I’ve just noticed that I rank highly in a certain big search engine for the phrase (sony’s new minidisc). Interesting it is.
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William Pfaff: Washington makes nice
William Pfaff on transatlantic relations, 2004 will be the year of reconciliation, but the US Administration will not forgive. Two annual events in January provide useful forecasts about the coming trans-Atlantic weather. One is the annual seminar on security matters by the American ambassador to NATO. The other is the World Economic Forum in Davos.…
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Mobile Asses
You know this site was bound to happen, but I thought some people might be interested in visiting – its basically what most people seem to do with their camera phones these days!
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When God goes to war: Karen Armstrong
Karen Armstrong, author of the History of God, with another article I have been meaning to blog on for a while. I like her ideas, and just in case the Guardian take this down, here is the full article, I really enjoyed it.
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Helium-3
Will Helium-3 be the energy source of the future? This article from the Daily Cardinal talks about researchers who think that mining on the moon could pay huge dividends for humanity. Some staggering figures: UW-Madison nuclear engineering Professor and Director of the Fusion Technology Institute Gerald Kulcinski and Fusion Technology Institute Professor John Santarius said…
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Cracking the Shell: Hawking says we must colonize space
Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit, in an article from two years ago, on why we must colonise space in order to survive. I would go along with Stephen Hawking, but be much more pessimistic, I would put it at 100 – 200 years, or else the human race is in big trouble.
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Liberal Hawks Reconsider the Iraq War
Something I meant to blog on recently, it is a long but interesting debate.
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DR DRE ALBUM DETOX TO HIT 2005
Co-producer of Dr-Dre, Scott Storch told MTV that Dres new album is someway from being released but will be worth waiting for. Dr Dres new album has been titled The Detox.
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American Psycho
Have you ever travelled through the insane mind of a serial killer ? Probably not, but Slim Shady will give you the opportunity to do so.
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Maryland Electronic Voting Systems Found Vulnerable
Yet more e-voting scandal. This one from SlashDot. Apparently hackers are helping to test voting machines…theres a show on NPR. From this story and the one on NPR, the state hired a company and set up a test voting precinct and had the group try whatever they could to break into the machines. Most of…
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