Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Quote of the day
Jim Cramer, in an article about the Fed chairman Ben Bernanke, brought up George Bush’s views on the US economy. He constantly says it is fundamentally sounds, even if things are not going quite so well. Says Cramer: I’m not surprised by President Bush’s sunny economic outlook—this president would praise the Weimar Republic’s hyperinflation as…
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First iPhone Europe visitor
So the iPhone launched today in the UK, and my logs show someone in Dublin visited on O2 using an iPhone. Who was that? Digifone Online Location Continent : Europe Country : Ireland (Facts) State/Region : Dublin City : Dublin Lat/Long : 53.3331, -6.2489 (Map) Language English en Operating System Macintosh MacOSX Browser Safari 1.3…
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24 in 1994
Hilarious, or at least to those of us from the pre-mobile, pre-broadband generation, and remember using computers before Windows 95.
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Adverts
As readers may have noticed I have Google Adsense on my blog. I have installed Donncha’s plugin for only showing irregular visitors who drop in via searches of the archives, but it does not appear to be working. Can anyone advise? I expect that most regular readers hate seeing the ads, so I would like…
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Heroes in Cork
I’ve started watching season 2 of Heroes. I had heard much talk of Cork being in the second season, and god it’s bloody awful. The accents are woeful, the sets make Ireland look like it did in 1954 rather than 2007. The second episode shows a pub “The Wandering Rock” (whatever that meansan apparent reference…
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Liam Casey in China
James Fallows congratulates Liam Casey on his winning of the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year award. Casey was featured in the recent China special edition of the Atlantic Monthly. Fallows: Casey informs me that in the last day or two he has received a number of congratulatory messages from contractors and business associates.…
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42' OLED displays
Suffice to say I can’t wait for these to come out. Samsung have roadmapped when they believe OLED models will come on the market. Laptops by 2009. Samsung’s display operation, Samsung SDI, has a roadmap that calls for 14-15.4in, 1280 x 800 (WXGA) OLEDs for laptops and TVs in the 2009 timeframe, along with 21-23in,…
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Google passes ITV1
Another moment to remember, when Google ad revenue outstripped ITV1 ad revenue in Britain. Google pulled in total revenues of £327m compared with an estimated £317m for all of ITV1’s output during the same period between July and September 2007. The report said the new figures offered a significant milestone as it was the first…
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IBM reclaims junk silicon for solar panels
Recycling solar panels: This new process is revolutionary won IBM the “2007 Most Valuable Pollution Prevention Award” from The National Pollution Prevention Program. IBM says that worldwide about 250,000 silicon wafers are started each day and that up to 3.3 percent of these wafers end up being discarded amounting to about three million discarded wafers…
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Hulu invites
Will demand for Hulu invites rival those of Gmail in the early days and more recently Joost? We will have to wait and see. Update: I have received my invite to Hulu, and am now a member. Unfortunately I don’t live in the United States so cannot view the videos. However, I may try using…
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