Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Palin's speech in Wordle
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Twitter testing
I’ve been playing with Twitter for the past few days. It’s certainly an interesting tool, and one that I have been enjoying. You can follow me here: http://www.twitter.com/gavinsblog
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Wordle in newspapers
Well the Irish Examiner, after much pitching by me, was brave enough to implement wordle usage. I reckon it might be the first Irish paper to use it. I think it is effective. It draws the readers eyes in, and gives a sense of what the speech itself contains. What do people think? Is it…
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Tools of the trade?
I have assembled some of the tools I will be testing over the coming months. Here they are: Well, except the MacBook Pro, which has been the best laptop I have ever had, and is now over one year old. Besides it is an EeePC 901 (12Gb solid state, 8GB SD, 1.6Ghz Atom, webcam, mic,…
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Gustav from space
I took a screen grab of the satellite images of Gustav as it nears the Louisiana coast. Man it’s huge. If you use Google Earth’s measurement tool, it is about 1,000km by 900km in size. The green is the radar signal. In this picture I measured the circumference of the main part of the storm,…
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Hi Stumbleupon..
I seem to be getting deluged with people visiting from StumbleUpon… I’m not sure why though? Welcome to the blog and feel free to browse around. 🙂
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Pray for rain?
Remember this guy? He wanted it to rain for Obama’s open air speech on Thursday. It didn’t happen, in fact it was a gorgeous evening. He later claimed it was only meant in jest. But the GOP must now change plans for their convention, not because of rain, but because of a hurricane of biblical…
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Wordle in print
I convinced the powers that be in the Irish Examiner that a wordle cloud would make a good graphic to go along with Barack Obama’s speech. It will feature in tomorrow’s paper. I’ve not seen Wordle used in an Irish paper yet, but since I don’t look at print newspapers that much (I read them…
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Who started it?
Kirsty Wark is still using the line that Saakashvili himself started the war. At the very least, we do not know who started the conflict on August 7/8, and for the BBC to assume that they do is unprofessional. There are various accounts of who started the conflict, most recently from Michael Totten in Georgia,…
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Travel plans
I’ve been working hard to prepare for a significant amount of traveling in the coming months. I have pretty much finalised my timelines, with all flights booked and accommodation sorted. Blogging, in a variety of forms, will be as regular as circumstances allow. I should warn everyone that I will be playing with and testing…
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