Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Tom gets Slashdotted
Companies really should think about the repurcussions before they send off Cease and Desist letters. I hope Tom’s server can handle the /. crowd! 🙂 The backlash has been quite substantial, O’Reilly have responded. Tom has published the letter of their response, it’s not too nice either. Update: It appears Twenty has written a rather…
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Cloaking device
Yet another Star Trek device makes the move to semi-reality. The work provides a mathematical “recipe” for bending light waves in such a way as to achieve a desired cloaking effect. John Pendry, along with colleagues David Smith and David Schurig at Duke University in North Carolina, US, have been testing suitable metamaterials for the…
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Sony Ericsson W800i Review
After my reliable and much loved Nokia 6630 had an unfortunate run-in with a washing machine, it was written in the stars that I was destined to get a new phone. I eventually decided on the Sony Ericsson W800i, incidentally the same as Ryan’s who lauded the phone’s features. First off is the 2.0MP camera.…
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Finito
Exams complete, here’s hoping I passed 🙂 Cian sums up our philosophy exam nicely.
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United 93
I meant to blog this earlier, but has anyone else seen United 93? I haven’t seen much discussion of it in the Irish blogosphere. I actually didn’t realise it was released straight to DVD last week until I spotted it in Xtra-vision, whereupon I instantly rented it. And I have to concurr with the reviews…
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Conservatism in Ireland
Richard‘s and Gerry’s discussion reminds me of the episode of Questions and Answers involving Brendan Howlin, Eamonn Delaney and Dan McLaughlin – in relation to the Irish Ferries dispute. Gerry’s answer to Richard: Like it or loath it, social partnership was a crucial element in forging the Irish model of social and economic governance. The…
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Al Gore on Saturday Night Live
Hehe. Very good. Via C&L.
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Hanafin rumbles
Sarah gets a reply from Mary Hanafin in relation to last week’s article in the Sunday Times. She seems a tad miffed. Sarah replies on her blog. Her other very carefully chosen phrase is that “in the coming school year” the pupil:teacher ratio will be 10:1. The Principal explained how the Minister is able to…
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Religion
Amazing what religion can do to some people. You would have to wonder why Fox invited her on at all.
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On syndication
Is there any way I can syndicate only one feed via WordPress? I’d like to limit it to only one, with full text in each. Update: Thanks to Dave, it seems to be sorted.
Got any book recommendations?