Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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China travels
Fellow UCC student Cian is away visiting that communist paradise where up to 100,000 people open a stockbroking account per day. Now there’s a contradiction. But where’s the pics Cian?
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My CAPS profile
THE best stock rating system on the internet at the moment. Here is my profile… not doing bad, not doing great either.
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News you might use
The Atlantic has interesting figures from a recent Pew Research Center study: The most knowledgeable Americans were those who got their news from the Web sites of major papers and those who watched programs like The Colbert Report or The Daily Show; they correctly answered 54 percent of the questions about current affairs, while regular…
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How the West lost God
Mary Eberstadt with a cover story in Policy Review on the subject of secularisation: In sum, and given what we know now about the religious and familial situation in Western Europe some 125 years later, Nietzsche was right to declare that the great Christian cathedrals of Europe had become tombs. But he may have been…
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Blogroll refresh
I have deleted a number of now defunct blogs from my blogroll, and as far as I know I have a reciprocal link to everyone who still blogs. I have also added some new blogs, including a new finance blog category. If you want me to add you to my blogroll, leave a comment!
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Dell return
Unfortunately for 10% of Dell employees, when job cuts are announced the market usually responds positively, especially with an underperforming company like Dell. The firm reached a price of $21.79 earlier this year, and have been on the rise since the return of Mr Dell to the hotseat. They now trade at $27.30. Anecodotally I…
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That Apple TV upgrade
Speaking of Apple, they recently announced an upgraded version of the Apple TV. The second model sports a 160GB hard drive instead of 40GB. Hm. There has been speculation of late as to the fate of the much loved MacMini, which has not been refreshed in some time. Some of commented that the Mini may…
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MacBook Pro next week?
I have been holding off on upgrading my laptop until it was closer to a flagged announcement of a revamped MacBook Pro line from Apple. Now it appears the launch may be closer than expected. It is believed the new MacBooks will have the much anticipated LED screens, instead of the older, hotter and more…
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HD-DVD encryption broken again
And this time Boing Boing has a funny story on how it happened. What are the chances? Hehe.
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That election thing
Can we now stop referring to Bertie Ahern as ‘Bertie’, but instead as Ahern or Mr Ahern? Do we refer to ANY other politician by their first name? It seems to be part of the whole ‘sure Bertie is one of us like, a common working man’. No. Ahern is not a common working man.…
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