Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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New site
I have started a new blog over here.
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Ouch
This is the broadband speed in UCC, pity it’s not at home. 🙁
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Article
I wrote a piece in today’s Irish Examiner about the BarCamp event on Saturday. Page 17, no Internet link. Will copy here shortly.
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Back for a note
I am forced to come back to react to the Ahern revelations. The most interesting name spotted: Des Richardson, one of his closest friends and one of the Drumcondra Mafia. Why? Richardson’s company, Berraway, is thought to have received large payments from, Rohan Holdings, owned by developer Ken Rohan. Rohan was perhaps the sole beneficiary…
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Bowing out… for now
I was reading Dave Sifry’s latest state of the blogosphere report earlier, and something occurred to me. It may be time to shut down this blog. When I say shut down, I mean leave it online, but simply let it slide and move on to pastures new. When I started blogging in 2002, the world…
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Comments
Comments are broken. Not sure how or why…
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Reutersgate
I was following the alleged staging of photos at Qana story, but this new scandal is much more straight forward. The picture was obviously photoshopped, Reuters has apparently apologised for the photo. That’s some pretty bad photoshopping. LGF has the expose. More Reuters oddities here.[via Samizdata]
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Beirut before and after
These satellite photos provide an interesting view of the intensity of IDF bombing: Note the lack of traffic, and the missing blocks of buildings.
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Woah!
Fantastic photo from Donncha who’s on holliers in San Francisco… Almost exactly the shape of the X-men symbol!
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Mac Mini entertainment
A few readers have been asking about my Mac Mini setup, so I have taken a couple of pictures to demonstrate how it stands currently. I actually love the option of picture-in-picture. There’s iTunes on (an abundance of country), with al Jazeera on as picture-in-picture via the television. You can have the TV sound on…
Got any book recommendations?