Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Google gets all Amazony

    Well last night Google announced “Google App Engine”, it’s essentially Google’s answer to Amazon’s web services. Pricing hasn’t been announced at this time, or at least that I could find. If you are interested in testing it out you can sign up for the waiting list here. Right now the only API language supported is…

  • Rockin’ Out in the Caribbean

    I’m in the Caribbean again for work and apparently there are only so many days that you listen to resort cover bands, and 14 is way past my limit. So I was very happy to find this post on Wil Wheaton’s site for a very cool LA HD radio station which is also online: KROQ…

  • It’s just like it was, except completely different

    So I finally got around to widgetizing this site today. So even though the sidebars looks exactly as they did this morning they are now wordpress widgets instead of actual edits to the underlying template. This will allow netfarious to not be tied a particular template as well as hopefully stop me from having decipher…

  • Jonathan Coulton Rocks!

    I was introduced to this guy via TWIT 133. If you like “They Might Be Giants” you’ll like his music. If you finished Valve’s The Orange Box:Portal you are most likely already a fan. Here is a “music video” someone threw together of one of his popular songs, “Code Monkey”: Jonathan Coulton’s home page is…

  • Need a Holiday? Petition for one…

    The guys & gals at Guinness would like your help in making St. Patrick’s Day a U.S. Federal Holiday. They need 1 million petition signers by midnight on March 16th. I think it’s not a bad idea to support any measure that may help give us more free time: http://proposition317.com

  • The People’s Mario

    Saw this on Wil Wheaton’s blog. Apparently at one point there was a rumor that Super Mario Brothers had a “communist agenda”. You can find the … err… proof here: http://nedmartin.org/amused/communist-mario So all of that reading just to setup this animation of how the game would have actually played if it were true: http://terminal71.com/flash/mario.php

  • Chaldean Archbishop kidnapped in Iraq

    65 year old Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho was kidnapped in Iraq today shortly after saying mass. He is a Chaldean Catholic bishop. The three people with him were killed. More info on the kidnapping: USA Today Associate Press Catholic News Service More info on Chaldean Catholics: Wikipedia Catholic Encyclopedia

  • I like Crayons …

    When I grow up I want to be able to play this game, actually, I want it now: Here is a link to the game’s site, unfortunately it is still under development: http://www.kloonigames.com/crayon/

  • Old computing habits die hard …

    I upgraded my system so that I could continue to play Oblivion with lots more of the eye candy turned up and perhaps even dabble in Bioshock but I still have a motherboard with (gasp) AGP. Yes, although I do have an Intel Core 2 Duo, I am still “kicking it old school” in the…

  • Bulk Chemicals, Pre-paid phone cards, Food & More

    The title really hasn’t got much to do with this post except that I saw this on a “market” on the way to the hotel I’m currently staying at for a business trip in Jamaica. This one of those “etc” posts so I figure it would be a good title since there will be a…

  • Happy New Christmakwanakah!

    Since this is my first post of 2008, Happy New Year! I got back form my business travel exploits in just enough time for Christmas and then had a hectic New year followed by a birthday party for a 1 year old. Now that I have enough time to breathe, I am heading back out…

  • Ubuntu & Citicards.com

    Well my windows install started to act up again so I decided to free up some space on a partition and try out the latest Ubuntu that everyone seems to be going ga-ga over. I do have to say that I was was very pleasantly suprised at how easy the desktop just worked, as it’s…

  • Etc: October 14

    So I’ve been doing at alot of traveling and running about and the site has gotten a little neglected. But here are a few things to keep you guys entertained: Flight Aware: Ever want to really know where your flight is, not the airline’s “update” but the actual real location of the plane (6 minutes…

  • Pirates! Yarr!

    Another Quiz. I’m sure this one is scientific: You scored as Captain Jack Sparrow, You are definitely quirky and often mistaken for mad but if anyone is truly paying attention they can see there is method to your madness. You try really hard to be bad but in the end you tend to do the…

  • A Great Bioshock review

    I have not bought Bioshock yet as I need to find some time to play as well as perform a computer upgrade in order to play it. But I hope to get to it “soon”. But in the meantime I really enjoyed this review of it which I am blatantly borrowing the linkage from a…

  • Digging through the Linux Kernel

    So I stumbled on two things today that might be goods for folks wanting to delve into the Linux kernel for education or development. The first is the Interactive Linux Kernel Map. This provides some detail on the layout of the kernel and the interaction between various parts. The second is the Linux Weather Forecast.…

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