Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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U.S. Media Fails to Ask Hard Questions
Just having a look over at Dan Gillmor’s e-Journal, he has an interesting story taken from the American Prospect. When the Observer story broke last week about US spying in the UN security council, the US media failed to mention it. Dan is not impressed. As Dan says: But what’s instructive about this episode is…
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Some interesting people a vistin'
I have been getting some interesting, and even strange entries in my server logs today. If you click on my sitemeter at the bottom of this page, and then click details, you will see some interesting servers. These include: NIPR.mil (twice) (The Pentagon, I believe that is their firewall) Umich.edu (University of Michigan) Timeinc.com (Time…
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Blair is plunging Britain into a crisis of democracy: Seumus Milne
Seumus Milne, editor of the comment section in the Guardian, writes about Blair and democracy this week. In relation to the UK’s idea of the six points of compliance, I believe he is correct when he says: The terms of the ultimatums being cooked up for it – including a requirement that Saddam Hussein gives…
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Osama bin Laden captured?
A report on the BBC is saying that information from Iran suggest that wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden has been captured – more as I get it. Just did a check – as yet none of the major news channels have picked it up – I was watching the Daily Politics on BBC, the presenter…
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Visitor numbers
Unfortunately my server logs went crazy, and deleted the first week of March. So what, you might say. Well anyway they are back up and it seems that the Google story got me my busiest day ever. The stats from the last three days are available here. 13,000 hits in 3 days. Not bad at…
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Photos of Fota
I’ve posted some recently taken photos, it is kinda weird to find kangaroos and cheetahs in Ireland – in a fairly open park. You can be just wandering around and bump into a family of wallabes or kangaroos. Quite nice. The park is called Fota Wildlife Park, it is near Cobh, Co. Cork.
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A wilful blindness: George Monbiot
George Monbiot continues to amaze me with his journalism – giving some of the best insights into current affairs that I can find anywhere. I would encourage you to read his article, but if you don’t have time, here is my synopsis. The core argument that Monbiot is expressing is the question: Why can’t liberal…
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I have decided to post
I have decided to post the direct comments that were made about my piece on Google. For the most part they were dismissive, or critical. I’m glad with the reaction, and that it generated a certain amount of debate. The comments made by Pyra’s (now Google’s) Steve Jenson, along with my reply are here. Below are…
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This is telling..
Picked up this story from Bernie – interesting change.
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A war of choice, not of necessity
Thomas Friedman writes about the war of choise versus the war of necessity. He uses an unusual example – Roosevelts meeting with King Abdul Aziz after the Yalta conference. Never heard of this – but the article is worth the read.
Got any book recommendations?