Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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National Archive videos
Now with the humour out of the way, back to business. Google have started putting US National Archive videos online, in what I think will be the coolest application of Google Video. And we wondered what we needed broadband for.
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Some humour
I was told recently that my blog lacked humour. So try this gem.
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Boston Pics
Plus a few more in the set.
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Back in Ireland
Jaysus I’m back in the home country.
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Back in Europe
Made it back to the UK…posting has been lacklustre of late. Shall return to Ireland and start blogging.
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Still here
I have been too busy to post, but am still doing some reading now and then. I see the short list is out for the blog awards, a really good mix there.
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Good night
I went to a lecture in Harvard last night in Emerson Hall by Cory Doctorow from Boing Boing. He is an incredibly good speaker, his speech was on the subject of copyright and DRM. Interestingly enough I bumped into Dan Gillmor at it, who I hadn’t seen since arranging a get together back in 2003…
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In Boston
I be in Boston now, more soon.
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Treasure Trove?
My trawl through government departments has been an interesting one thus far. For example, you might be interested in reading: The handbook for Government Ministers in Cabinet.(PDF) Or here is a request for tenders for Servers for the Department of the Taoiseach in 2002. (PDF). Or a recent Treaty between the US and Ireland. (PDF)…
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The government Robots.txt file
Does anyone notice anything strange about the Robots.txt file on irlgov.ie? Does the 13th of May 1999 ring a bell? The Public Accounts Committee of that date appears to be disallowed. Might be nothing. Just wondered. Update: Thanks to the commenters below for their efforts in relation to the PAC documents. I have been looking…
Got any book recommendations?