Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Newsnight blogging
I’m glad to see that the BBC have come to some arrangement to allow Newsnight‘s Paul Mason to blog. He did blog for a while here, but has now moved here. It is a valuable addition to watching the show, and he joins Nick Robinson in the blogosphere.
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Satellites Will See More, Faster
It looks like all the mapping websites, including Google Maps and Virtual Earth, will have access to far more and far more frequent data. GeoEye says its next-generation satellite, GeoEye-1, will be capable of acquiring each day approximately 270,000 square miles of imagery, an area about the size of Texas. That’s about seven times the…
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Google Finance
Of all the things Google have done in the last year, I like Google Finance the most, it is simplicity itself.
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National Security Strategy 2006
It was released last week, and is worth a look.
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On the falling man
Markham and Richard are disagreeing about the famous WTC jumper photo. Markham notes: The Falling Man is the perfect news photo. It’s clean and symmetrical; it has incredible impact on the reader; it portrays the horror of an event, a warzone disaster situation, without being sullied by debris, smoke, or facial expressions. We don’t need…
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Documentaries
Two documentaries tonight to choose from, Mark Little’s Are you afraid of Islam, and Panorama
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Ireland
It be funny!
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Tracking flights
When I was in Boston Logan I used the airport Wifi to watch realtime flight data on a map, as flights arrived and departed from the airport. Now this nifty bit of software plugs into Google Earth, so you an watch flight data updated every 60 seconds. It works from a number of US airports.
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On retiring
It was interesting to note Dave Winer’s post about his impending retirement from the blogosphere. When I started blogging I was reading him every day, I gradually drifted away, probably because I became a bit less of a techie. I also used Radio Userland for a while, but it was crappy so I moved to…
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National Holiday
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Got any book recommendations?