Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Comments on the 8 Mile song
[Eminem] Sometimes I just feel like, quittin I still might Why do I put up this fight, why do I still write Sometimes it’s hard enough just dealin with real life Sometimes I wanna jump on stage and just kill mics And show these people what my level of skill’s like But I’m still white,…
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Eminem compared to poet John Berryman
THE EXAMINED LIFE ON JAN. 23, 1963, Robert Lowell wrote to fellow poet Elizabeth Bishop with news of a periodical “about to be set floating during the lull of the newspaper strike here that has temporarily put the New York Times book section out of existence.” That publication, conceived of by a group of writers…
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Administration Faces Supoenas From 9/11 Panel
This is curious stuff, the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States might have to supoena the White House in order to gain access to documents that it believes are being withheld. According to the cover story on today’s New York Times, Thomas Kean, the head of the Commission is not satisfied with…
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Nothings more impressing than Eminems rapid way to the top. In his song Marshall Mathers from the Marshall Mathers Lp, he says: Last year I was nobody, this year Im selling records.
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Swarthmore Students Keep Diebold Memos Online
“Two student groups based out of Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania announced today that they are rejecting Diebold Elections Systems’ cease-and-desist orders and are initiating an electronic civil disobedience campaign that will ensure permanent public access to the controversial leaked memos. You can read the memos, search the memos, or download the memos.” This is huge.…
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Angry O'Brien angers O'Brien
Dick expresses ‘some’ sympathy for Irish uber-entrepeneur Denis O’Brien. I have no sympathy for him at all – in fact I think he should be fined the sum total of his profits from selling Esat – and you all know the reason – corruption. Esat Telecom, based on all the evidence from Moriarty, as I…
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Google swallows another competitor
The infamous Andrew Orlowski covers the story of Google buying a competitor. Can the Google train keep going? If it makes upwards of $15 billion from its IPO, what will it do with the money? Will Microsoft buy Google?
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Sony to ship blue laser storage rig next month
Sony has started to ship its new blue laser technology – how long before red lasers become defunct? Sony’s 23.3GB blue laser optical storage system will finally come to market next month, when the company ships products based on the technology. Those products were to have shipped in the summer. Aimed at the kind of…
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Different horses for foreign courses
Paul Mason from AK13 dropped me a mail about his latest post – interesting reading. Political power is usually defined as the ability to make someone do something they would not otherwise do. It is a very general definition, saying nothing about how you make someone do something you could, for example, pay them…
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London blog meet
A great night was had by all –Dan had to leave a bit early as he had to catch a flight today, but it was great to put a person to the blog, so to speak. Also there were another half a dozen bloggers, mainly from Samizdata, I spend most of my time chatting to…
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