Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Week in Politics
I see RTE have finally added the Week in Politics to their TV archive. You can now watch the three-way argument from last night where former Justice Minister John O’Donoghue tries to defend the government dumbing down the Freedom of Information Act. He resorts to name calling and ad hominem attacks – his points were…
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XBOX 360 graphics
Yes I have been tempted by the Beast of Redmond. But the price point is crazy, just because it’s a new console doesn’t mean you charge on average €70 per game. Screenshots like this make it oh so tempting though.
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Two-Stage-to-Orbit 'Blackstar' System Shelved at Groom Lake?
Aviation week have an interesting story on the secret “Blackstar” project. Now facing the possibility that this innovative “Blackstar” system may have been shelved, we elected to share what we’ve learned about it with our readers, rather than let an intriguing technological breakthrough vanish into “black world” history, known to only a few insiders. U.S.…
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Blogging minister worries Whitehall
It looks like this has made some people nervous: DAVID MILIBAND, the politician tipped as a future Labour leader, is to become the first member of the cabinet to set up a web log in which he will publish views that go beyond his ministerial brief. The launch of the “blog”, disclosed in a leaked…
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More new Irish blogs
It grows and grows. Dan Buckley over at Domestic Despair (A Cork man too) A Kevin Myers-watch blog An Irish ice-cream blog Copernicus over at the Midnight Court I wonder though, besides aggregators like POTB, how we are going to manage to read all the new blogs. I do use RSS aggregators myself (Thunderbird) but…
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Is McDowell taking the piss?
The Irish Times reports that Minister for Justice Michael McDowell presented the Criminal Justice (Mutual Assistance) Bill 2005 to the Seanad as Gaeilge. You can read his speech on the Oireachtas website here. If, like me, your cupla focal means you can’t make head nor tail of what he is saying, then you are with…
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Buy Bebo now
I know if I had some spare change I would be buying Bebo. Apparently it has gone relatively unnoticed in Silicon Valley, at least according to this report. But over here I have never heard or seen anything like it. Anecdotally, just walking around UCC in the past week I overheard at least a dozen…
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Ask maps
A new competitor to Google Maps, a little slower though. The directions for Ireland work way better…
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As I expected…
You are a Social Liberal (70% permissive) and an… Economic Moderate (50% permissive) You are best described as a: Democrat Link: The Politics Test on Ok CupidAlso: The OkCupid Dating Persona Test
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Who reads this blog anyway?
If you are reading this please leave a comment…maybe include how you found my blog, and what made you stay(if you did). Curiosity! By the way I will be keeping this as the first entry for a few days…
Got any book recommendations?