Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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On a “Dark Miracle”
As seen on WilWheaton.net, Joshua Ellis, who is an independant journalist, went to the Trinity Test Site (the site of the first nuclear bomb test), this year to go take a look. The site is open to the public 2 days of every year. He describes what he saw in pictures and words, and has…
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Davinci Code Lawsuit has no merit
A British court has thrown out the lawsuit against Dan Brown. Here is more info from the LA Times. </center>
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Zombie Scenario Survival Test
Time for another quiz. Are you ready? Here is my result : Official Survivor Congratulations! You scored 78%! Whether through ferocity or quickness, you made it out. You made the right choice most of the time, but you probably screwed up somewhere. Nobody’s perfect, at least you’re alive. My test tracked 1 variable How you…
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Phosphor : A FPS In your browser
As seen on HardOCP.com, ever want to play a first person shooter, in your browser. Well some one has coded up a 7MB shockwave execcutable and yes it does include multiplayer among other features. Take a look over at : Â http://www.rasterwerks.com/game/phosphor/beta1.asp
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Google : Romance
Just when you thought your contextual relationship needs were not being met, Google comes to the rescue : http://www.google.com/romance/
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Slings and Arrows
Coming from the Great White North,a.k.a. Canada, is this wonderful program that is now being shown on the Sundance Channel. Info on the show can be found : http://www.sundancechannel.com/feature/index.php?ixContent=8105 and http://www.sundancechannel.com/feature/index.php?ixContent=8728 The show basically follows the cast & crew of a theater group and is pretty darn funny and very well acted, in fact the…
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A must read : Dan Brown’s Statement for Lawsuit
You may or may not have heard of the lawsuit concerning possible “plagiarism” for for “The Davinci Code”. Here is a USA Today article on the suit (no pie charts included) : http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2006-03-26-da-vinci-main_x.htm What is really cool is that as part of this case Dan Brown went through and has written up how he puts…
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Lord of the Rings – The Musical
A musical adaptation based on the J.R.R Tolkien trilogy just openned in Toronto : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4840278.stm Reviews have not been very good so far.
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Primetime : Racist Cabbie
Primetime rigged up a cab with cameras and hired two actors to play cab drivers. The “cab drivers” made racist remarks and the cameras recorded the passenger’s diverse reactions to the situation. It was a pretty good “soft” news show. An excerpt of the broadcast can be found on the ABC News site : http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=1757271…
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This is a test. This is only a test
I’m still adding features/content to https://www.netfarious.net, for example if all is working OK this post should also show up in my blogger account. This way I get to have the best of both worlds or at least more exposure for my latest ramblings. -The Management Edit : Ok, that didn’t quite work as expected. If…
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Grok WordPress
Well if you made it this far, you are looking at my brand new and still under very much construction site. Welcome! It’s going to take a little bit more elbow grease but so far WordPress (blogging software) rocks! At first glance the picture behind the blog name looks like it may have come as…
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My last blogger post
Well I went and got myself a domain , two, actually so please start looking for new posts over at https://www.netfarious.net/ and http://www.netfarious.com/, they are mirrored for now. Right now my new blog is up and running other content is still TBD but with lots of space and bandwidth, who knows where it will go.…
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Must be Friday
Please help those who cannot help themselves : http://www.cowabduction.com (Don’t worry, I too am even more confused after visiting the site)
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I think it might be snowing somewhere right now
I’m recommending you read an article about Tulane from Fox News.
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Contact the Tulane Board
The March 15th-17th vote on the Tulane’s Bold University Renewal Plan (BURP) is coming up fast. If you are interested in contacting the Board about your thoughts on the plan to eliminate the School of Engineering please feel free to use their contact information here. If you think New Orleans might need a few engineers…
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Missing directx dlls – like d3dx9_26.dll
So while attempting to finish far cry last night apparently somehow my directx 9.0c installation got somewhat borked. It was failing to find d3dx9_26.dll (apparently looking around the files d3dx9_24.dll, d3dx9_25.dll, d3dx9_27.dll,d3dx9_28.dll also seem to disappear randomly). Doing a quick google search I found somebody who had the dll available to download but being a…
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