Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Egads …
Just took this quiz, (un)fortunately seems to hit pretty close to the mark. I am: 54% Republican. “Congratulations, you’re a swing voter. When they say ‘Nascar Dad’, they mean you. Every Republican ad on the TV set was made just for your viewing pleasure. Don’t you feel special?” Are You A Republican?
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RIP : Turbolink Switching Power Supply
Well to make a long story short. If you add a new spare drive (for backing up other systems on the network, for example) to an older system you may want to be sure that the power supply has enough enough wattage (which it did), unfortunately that didn’t stop my linux box’s power supply from…
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Habemus Papam : Pope Benedict XVI
Viva il papa!
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How evil is this site?
Well according the “Gematriculator” this blog is : Apparently “Gematria” is essentially numerology based on hebrew letters in the bible.
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High school robotics team beats college students but still wants to go to college
Might be old news, but maybe not. Check out this Wired article. These kids from a high school beat out several colleges, including MIT, at an underwater robotics competition. Its a story about underdogs, college, and Hooters. One other side of the story is that since they are undocumented, they have little chance of going…
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How a new Pope is elected
Cum – Latin for “with” Clavis – Latin for “key” Conclave – a place that can be securely locked Information on Conclave from the Catholic Encyclopedia.
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Napoleon Dynamite
See the movie, which is great and has no sex or foul language. Then take the quiz, here are my results : You are Tater Tots. Go get your own!! Which Napoleon Dynamite character are you? brought to you by Quizilla
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Living in a DRM land …
Well my computer hard disk died and among other things that I didn’t have backups for was my mp3 music collection. Luckily my music was on my iPod so I thought cool … I won’t have to re-feed my CDs to my computer. After installing XP and iTunes I learned the truth, there is no…
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Waving the Flag
As I’m sure you are aware the FCC is mandating that all new TV receivers process a Broadcast flag starting on July 1, 2005 (just 3 days before Independence day). Why should you care? The broadcast flag, as a side-effect, limits what you can or can’t record, or if interpreted “nicely” will let you record…
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To Hell and Back
If you haven’t seen the movie Constantine, I highly recommend it. After being let down by several comic based movies recently, it was nice to see one that proved to be fun and have a plot. It was something that I haven’t quite gotten since the Spiderman movies … mind you it is not as…
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A very weird one
I had an extremely weird dream last night. It did have a neat setting setting: Victorian England. And did seem to have a pretty good “soundtrack” a la Gladiator. But a few words of advice to those of you out there : – Don’t extensively read CNN before going to bed. – Don’t watch German…
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Which Website are you?
Just took the “Which website are you?” quiz. And I got the following : Which Website are You? If its a slow day, or need a diversion while trying to think of ways to make an algorithm nicer without resorting to maintenance unfriendly nested if … else clauses you might as well go take a…
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Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas everybody!!! It was a white christmas .. in Houston, which hasn’t happenned since 1986. A good time was had by all.
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We’ve got approval
My future mother-in-law has decided that she really likes the idea of a Rome wedding. So the we’re eloping and you are welcome to come along with us idea now has wings.
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Man builds Giant Robot to defend Home
OK … maybe that title is a little far fetched, but according to this article on Engadget and the original link from CNET News, a man in Alaska is building a Giant Robot/Exoskeleton in his backyard. He plans to be finished by next summer and then plans to go to the local racetrack and test…
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Potter mania to begin again…
Several headlines are now showing that book 6 of the series : Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, will be released on July 16th, 2005. I’ll never forget walking into Costco picking up my Order of the Phoenix book, walking over to get some bagels and then walking past the now more than half gone…
Got any book recommendations?