Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Hurricane Ike satellite photo
Hurricane Ike as it would appear from space: Scary.
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Remembering September 11
Seven years have flown by. It only seems like last week. For some reason this photo has been one of the most provocative of that day for me. I guess it brings the scale of the day down to a micro level. The entire Flickr set from Hiroshima is here. What is interesting now too…
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Matt Damon on Palin
And thank you to Mr Damon for saying the most sensible stuff about Palin thus far.
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Lisbon 2 in Autumn '09?
The Telegraph are saying this is the likely day for our second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. I must say, I like the name of the briefing paper: The Solution to the Irish Problem An internal EU briefing paper, entitled The Solution to the Irish Problem, predicts that Dublin will accede to the re-run at…
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Breaking news Facebook
I see my company launched a Facebook page/group for its Breaking News section. It looks like it started back in August and it seems many invites were sent out recently. It’s a step in the right direction.
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Yahoo f**k up
Good stuff Yahoo, put a pic of Obama next to a headline about terrorism. I imagine the picture was added automatically because of the related keywords – but shouldn’t they really check it before it goes live? Update: Someone/something from Yahoo visits within 10 minutes. 25 minutes later and it still features on the main…
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Afghan poppies
The movement of a turbine into Afghanistan makes for fascinating reading. The Economist concludes: Electricity is the basis of any long-term economic development, which in turn is essential to winning hearts and minds. Without power there can be no factories to draw young men away from the Taliban; and without refrigeration there is little hope…
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The Media Elite
Hehehe.
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Energy security
I had an interesting conversation a few weeks ago with an officer from a British navy ship that had docked in Cork. The subject of the conversation varied, but it tended towards military/strategic plans of Britain and the US. What I pointedly asked was why the British had embarked on a massive navy building programme…
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Builders' loan plan to lure buyers
RTE reports that builders are offering interest free loans to lure buyers. They must be getting desperate. A simpler way to lure buyers would be to drop the over-inflated prices. The advantage of these loan offers is that it gets buyers in at the current property price now, rather than at a lower price later.…
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