Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Holidays
My British long weekend shall be spent in Paris. I will return on August 26th. I may blog from an Internet Cafe in Paris, and post some photographs if I can. Enjoy your weekend!
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Drinking
Dick over at Back Seat Drivers has brought up the alcohol debate over the last few days. The topic has also featured on Samizdata I wrote an article (June 23) for the New Statesman back in June on the subject so I think I will publish the entire unedited version here. I have a fairly…
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Cable problems
Apologies to readers, my cable connection has been intermittent in the last few days due to NTL problems with its DNS clusters. The problem should be fixed shortly. In the meantime I would direct you to the blogs in my daily reads section. In other news I finally met fellow blogger Roger Ridey at the…
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Webloggers deal Harvard blog-bores a black eye
Winer is real. Winer is a software developer, but one very few software developers people have heard of: he developed “outlining” software for the Macintosh in the 1980s and claims co-authorship of a couple of obscure web protocols, which are too boring and unimportant to mention. Rightly or wrongly, he has a reputation for alienating…
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Giant laser transmutes nuclear waste
A giant laser has cut the lifetime of a speck of radioactive waste from millions of years to just minutes. The feat raises hopes that a solution to nuclear power’s biggest drawback – its waste – might one day be possible. Gosh if this could be implemented it go towards creating an infinite supply of…
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Maureen Dowd: The candidate blogs? It's all over the Internet
Maureen Dowd has something interesting things to say about blogging. Thanks to ‘Pett’? for pointing this out to me during the week too. Even former candidates are weighing in. Gary Hart, who began his blog in March, doesn’t bother to read other digital diarists. “If you’re James Joyce,” he said slyly, “you don’t read other…
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Niagara Mohawk
Niagara Mohawk, a National Grid USA company, provides electric service to approximately 1.5 million customers and natural gas to approximately 540,000 customers in upstate New York. The company is based in Syracuse. Its parent company also has electricity distribution operations in New England. National Grid USA’s core business is the transmission and distribution of electricity.…
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Bloggin
Sorry folks, been up the walls busy of late…will be back blogging later tonight.
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Paul Krugman: The lesson buried in Iraq's desert sands
Paul Krugman believes we need to learn from the lessons of past civilizations and care for our environment. The point is that when it comes to evidence of danger from emissions – as opposed to, say, Iraqi nukes – the people now running the United States won’t take yes for an answer. Quite.
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blanket immunity for US corporations in Iraq
Holy Crap, how did I miss this story. Thanks Horst. Read this carefully. “According to the order, ‘any attachment, judgment, decree, lien, execution, garnishment or other judicial process is prohibited, and shall be deemed null and void, with respect to the following: (a) the Development Fund for Iraq and (b) all Iraqi petroleum and petroleum…
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