Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Mind your W’s and Q’s
In Turkey, 20 Kurds were fined for carrying signs (written in Kurdish) that contained the letters W & Q at a Kurdish New Year celebration. Those letters are not part of the Turkish alphabet and their use is illegal. The Turkish alphabet has all of the letters in the English alphabet except “q”, “w”, and…
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Which Sci-fi Character are you?
Found this one on digg.com. I got Aragorn : Putting your appointed path ahead of any inner conflicts, you make your own rules for the benefit of all. If my life or death I can protect you, I will. Aragorn is a character in the Middle-Earth universe. There is a description of him at TheOneRing.net.
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NANOWRIMO – I’ld like to buy a vowel
It’s almost that time of year again, yes in 13 days it will be November. November is a time for Turkey, at least one wedding I know of, and of course lots of inspiration and perspiration from writers. Novemeber is of course, National Novel Writing Month or NANOWRIMO for short. The goal of NANOWRIMO is…
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It’s Tai Shan
The panda cub born to Mei Xiang at the National Zoo in Washington D.C. was finally named, Tai Shan, which translates to “peaceful mountain”. As a chinese tradition panda cubs are not named for the first 100 days because of their high mortality rate in captivity, delaying the naming of the cub is a way…
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Mosquito
Mosquito is a fan based (Browncoat) parody of Firefly. I personally cannot vouch if it is any good as they have exceeded their download limit until sometime Wednesday. But apparently it is supposed to be. Here is a link to the Mosquito site : http://www.mosquitoverse.com/ And Here is a link to an interview with Mosquito’s…
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Insomnia strikes
It’s about 1:30am. I should be in bed but I’m not. We are officially at 34 days until the Wedding. Here are some useful tips for grooms out there : 1. Come to terms with the fact that weddings are expensive. 2. Freaking out about wedding expenses will not make them inexpensive (but it may…
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Which Serenity character are you?
Go see Serenity. But in the mean time take the test. My results : You scored as Simon Tam. The Doctor. You have a gift for healing that goes beyond education. You took an oath to do no harm, even when your patients have tried to kill you. You are out of place where you…
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Wicked – The review
Well I made my way to Music Hall at Fair Park in Dallas to see Wicked – The Musical last night. The musical is based on the book “Wicked” by Gregory Maguire who also happens to be releasing a sequel to the book, “Son of a Witch”. Review for the fiance who was out of…
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Good thing, Bad thing
Sometimes planning a wedding can be stressful so today : Good Thing : I surprised my fiance by finding tickets to take her to go see Wicked – The Musical! Bad Thing : She is leaving town a few hours before the show is scheduled to start for buisiness and the tickets are not refundable.…
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Buy one game, get one free
According to slickdeals.net, Amazon / Toys R Us has a buy 1 get 1 free coupon for Hasbro, Milton Bradley, and Parker Brothers games. Here is the link : http://www.slickdeals.net/#p6593
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Fight for your right to …
The quick and easy way to write your congressional representatives. 1. Pick an issue. 2. Click. 3. FIll in your info and edit the letter as you see fit. 4. Click to submit the letter to your Senators/Representative. And you can do it here : EFF: Take Action
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Serenity
It’s a great movie. If you are a fan of the Firefly series you have probably already seen it. If you haven’t seen the movie, do yourself a favor and go. It’s just like the last couple of star wars movies except it is actually good, and has no aliens or jedi.
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Sold out to the man!
I added Google Adsense to this blog (and its rss feed) today. If it is annoying, troublesome, etc. Please comment here. Thanks! -The guy who sold out
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This product really sucks
But in this case that is a good thing. My vacuum has given up the ghost, thrown in the towel, etc, etc. So I went to amazon to start looking for a new one and found the Dyson DC07 which is a refurb model but is also $300 less than the “new” model. Since all…
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Comment online about your doctor … and get sued
Apparently some doctors are suing patients for posting negative comments about them online. You can see the Wall Street Journal article here. That first amendment thing is probably overrated anyway.
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Just down the road and on the right
And so it begins, US going to take Iran’s WMD info to UN. See here. Well, we already have all the equipment over there anyway…
Got any book recommendations?