Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Palin, Wasilla, and qualifications
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The Punchestown scandal
Ah more memories…Batt O’Keeffe defends the indefensible. March 30, 2004.
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Noel Demspey on PPARS
I dug it out from the RTE archives. Remember this? €170m wasted.
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Habitable planets
Space.com explains a new idea that the “goldilocks” zone around suns may be different than previously thought. Some extrasolar planets that one might assume are too cold to host life could in fact be made habitable by a squishing effect from their stars, a new study found. A planet’s midsection gets stretched out by its…
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Yahoo results
Well Mr Market has liked Yahoo’s decision to fire 1,500 workers. The shares are trading up by about 5% in after market. The purge outlined Tuesday represents a 10 percent reduction in Yahoo’s payroll of about 15,000 employees. It’s the second time in nine months that Yahoo has resorted to mass layoffs in what so…
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Mac Mini RIP?
Gizmodo reports that the Mac Mini has ceased shipping to some retailers and may be cancelled altogether. Does Apple have a replacement in mind, or is it planning to simple let the Mac Mini go the way of the Dodo? I have a Mac Mini, as do several people I know. All of whom hooked…
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Eminem endorses Obama
Well I guess it’s not as high profile as Colin Powell. Though the conservative base may see it as a good thing for a bad man like Eminem to endorse the socialist Obama. I doubt it will have much of an affect either way.
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Seven Questions for Larry Wilkerson
FP ask some questions of Colin Powell’s chief of staff on Powell’s endorsement of Obama. I like these two: FP: What’s your take on the tone of the campaign? LW: I was fully expecting the grand wizard of the Klu Klux Klan to arrive from Maryland and endorse McCain. I was becoming frightened that we…
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Why I blog
Andrew Sullivan in the latest edition of the Atlantic. An interesting observation about paper: The points of this essay, for example, have appeared in shards and fragments on my blog for years. But being forced to order them in my head and think about them for a longer stretch has helped me understand them better,…
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Dell to leave Limerick?
Dell just announced the sale of a call centre in El Salvador. An announcement about its Irish operation could soon follow. Keep an eye out. As I said last month, Dell leaving Limerick, or indeed Ireland, is inevitable. The job losses will be substantial.
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