Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Catholics against condoms
Top Stories – Reuters Catholic Churches Say Condoms Don’t Stop AIDS – BBC LONDON (Reuters) – The lives of Roman Catholics in some of the countries worst hit by HIV (news – web sites)/AIDS (news – web sites) are being put at even greater risk by advice from their churches that the use of condoms…
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Eminem's 'Stan' is poetry
As Giles Foden espressed it before, ‘Stan’ is a masterpiece of work. Mr Foden says that Stan has the depth of the Shakespeare verses. I totally agree with him on the fact that Stan is great poetry. As a French citizen, I dare comparing Stan to Rimbaud’s ‘Le Dormeur du Val’. Even if the story…
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Answers please, Mr Bush
Michael Moore with some pointed questions for Bush, some nonsensical, but some fairly straight forward. Including: What exactly was that look on your face in the Florida classroom on the morning of September 11 when your chief of staff told you, ‘America is under attack’?
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Is blogging important?
Slugger O’Toole has got a copy of the article in the Sunday Tribune by Matt Maggee where I was quoted: The down side of the non-mainstream nature of the blogs, though, is that they do not operate the same checks and balances to ensure accuracy and accountability. The checks and balances of blogs are entirely…
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Review of the "Eminem Show"
While the Marshall mathers Lp is known as the most provocative of Eminem’s albums, the Eminem show is getting more personal and also more introspective. Eminem exposes his life like a show to his public.It’s like a total exposure, something he wants to share with his public. Some of his songs like “Cleaning Out My…
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NWA review
Last week I was buying some detergent at a local laundromat in rural Nebraska. This is what was occupying my mind: “See, I don’t give a fuck, that’s the problem/ I see a motherfuckin’ cop, I don’t dodge him.” Now, based on my limited experience with law enforcement, I’ve found most cops to be cordial,…
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48 hour Internet worm plunges world into productivity
An Internet worm that disabled networks across the U.S. Monday and Tuesday temporarily thrust the nation into its most severe maelstrom of productivity since 1992. He he.
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How Yeltsin crushed democracy
Secrets are spilled of 1993 deception that allowed president to suppress parliament. This is amazing stuff. Officials and participants today paint a fresh picture of the clashes that began with rioting on October 2 and led to tanks rolling up to the parliament building on October 4. The Kremlin and western governments portrayed the unrest…
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Tampa Trib bloggers saying bye-bye
Tom Mangan reports that the Tampa Tribune has ordered three staffers with unauthorized blogs to stop. He hopes it’s in service of a higher cause, such as publishing in-house blogs Ive seen this happen before, and Dan Gillmor, as ever, is right.
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Half-Life 2 code leaked online
The BBC are reporting that some of the source code to Valve’s new game, Half-Life 2, has been leaked onto the net. Apparently the company have been a target of hackers for some time, keen to find out about the long awaited sequel. Key loggers and hacked email accounts are evident, and the company are…
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