Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The Atlantic website
Via Jim Fallows comes news that the Atlantic, an excellent magazine I have subscribed to for many years, is opening its archives online. Twill be opened up tomorrow, and is definitely worth a look.
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MacBook Air?
That’s one of the rumoured names for Apple’s upcoming laptop. We shall have to see. MacRumours has some photos of the impending event. Yup…thar she be.
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Fairytales
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Tribunal test podcast
Myself and my friend John Dennehy have put together a test version of a Mahon Tribunal podcast. It’s about 30 mins long and weighs in at 39mb and represents Q1 – Q159, up to the yellow hair comments on Bertie Ahern’s controversial first day of evidence in December. We shaved about 10 minutes off the…
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Huckabee and Obama?
Things look that way at the moment. Not long to go. Yup, it’s them. Obama, I think, will be in the White House in 2009. Obama speech: A couple of things to note. No autocue. Memorised. Prepared. He also chose to stand on the podium on his own, leaving his family aside. This was a…
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Facebook momentum
The Resign, Mr Ahern group continues to grow. Newstalk 106 have been in touch and asked if I could go on the Declan Carty show at around 11.15pm tonight. I should be on, subject to time slot changes. 1,073 members, and counting.
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China in 2008
Every news channel I watched tonight had a package on how China, and her economy, will be the big story of 2008. Did anyone notice how China has avoided economic calamity? Did anyone notice the change of laws earlier this year allowing China to invest in US and UK banks? Many people forget that the…
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News the media missed
The excellent FP blog sums up some of the stories that made the headlines in 2007. However, some stories the public found more interesting, but did not interest the media. They use a Pew poll for the findings. Gas prices were very important to readers in 2007. I think this is an indication of where…
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Predictions for 2008
I’m not going to make any, yet anyway. Dan Drezner does. The biggest surprise? Obama for president. I have a funny feeling he may be right.
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Happy new year
… to all out there in the blogosphere, to all my readers, and to everyone really. 1,000 strong against Ahern is now the official figure, what a great new year’s gift!
Got any book recommendations?