Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

I am disgusted with Firefox, and thinking of dumping it. A few days ago I downloaded Firefox 4, and ever since, it has been a nightmare of constant freezes and endless glitches. “Support” says that Google is making it freeze.  Others say Firefox needs to be uninstalled and redownloaded and reinstalled. (I did the latter…

and I like this one by KC Tunstall This was brought on by Wretchard’s dissertation on love. Dante believed that loneliness was the memory of happy times lost. And for perhaps that reason, the demand for love will always be greatest among those who have only heard rumor of it and glimpsed it, fleetingly, but…

No I am not dead. Just almost. I have been burning the candle at both ends doing campaign work which has a deadline of today. So until later today, I can’t blog. I don’t even have time to be writing this post! But a friend reminded me that I missed out on Berkeley’s Pagan Festival,…

Havelock insists that there be total understandings if not peace with Coco, who is acknowledged to be limping towards godhead. Pay no attention to the asbestos content of the flooring! What is dropped on it will be EATEN! Signed,

Paul Wolfowitz suggests giving Gaddafi the UBL treatment:  One of the most extraordinary features of the protests that have swept the Muslim world has been the courage of the demonstrators. The great bravery of Tunisians and Egyptians has been exceeded by that of the Libyans and Syrians, while Bashar al-Assad and Muammar Gaddafi have joined…

Thanks to modern embalming methods, most people don’t have to worry about one of the most dreaded fates since ancient times: being buried alive. That’s simply because no one can survive embalming.  Draining all the blood from your body and replacing it with perfumed formaldehyde offers 100% insurance against living burial. However, mistakes are occasionally…

When Bush was President, it just felt more like the country was being run by people who really took the job seriously, as something bigger than themselves.  Maybe this explains why. UPDATE: Or maybe it’s this. UPDATE: Or possibly this.

Back in the 20s, horses couldn’t have dragged me away… …from crying my blues away! A cheerful thought, actually. Click the pic for a feel! The Krazy Kat, btw, was a popular artists’ speakeasy in DC back in the day. Not a SWAT team in sight! In the days when morality reigned, the police could…

Simon already covered this in his usual concise fashion, but I’d just like to add a few more verbose and wandering thoughts. The more I think about this sparse, even cryptic update, the better I feel about it.  the WB-8 device operates as designed and it is generating positive results Assuming “positive results” doesn’t just mean…

Althouse and a few others have taken over Instapundit for a week to give Glenn a rest. What is Ann linking to? An article on boob squeezing. Seriously. It can cause pleasant contractions according to the article. So, tell me: If you love breasts so much, why do you so often neglect or manhandle them…

Over a week has passed since the last update. A few things have happened since then. I posted this link about the Japanese Government upping the radiation safety limit for workers – Japan’s Ministry of Health to Get Rid of Annual Radiation Limit for Nuclear Plant Workers – in the last update. Now we know…

After much agonizing and stalling, I finally decided to switch to WordPress. This is the official unveiling! The old MovableType installation was left in place so that there won’t be any dead links, and all clicked links should work. Hope you enjoy it. The blog had to be dragged klcking and screaming into the modern…

Earlier I saw a car which had the back windshield emblazoned with a slogan that Coco takes as an insult. In case you can’t make it out easily, it says the following: O GOD WHAT SHOULD I DO THERE’S A DOG CHASING ME While I would like to tell Coco that some people think in…

I may be slow on the uptake, but I am genuinely having trouble processing all of the anger that the killing of Osama bin Laden seems to have generated on the right. And I do mean anger; in certain teeth-gnashing right wing circles, people seem actually angrier over the death of bin Laden than they…

Since 1994, I have been resolutely, unalterably, vehemently, opposed to the left. No matter what the right wing does, I will always vote for them over the left, even if I have to hold my nose. Even if I have to throw up.  But seeing a comment like the second one to this post by…

At PJM, Michael Ledeen consults the spirit of James Jesus Angleton and asks a good question: “What if the Killing of Bin Laden Is the Beginning of The Great American Retreat?” Interesting theory and speculation, and if the killing turns out to be an excuse for retreat, I will oppose the retreat. However, the possibility…

It will be done by optimizing siting. Evolution is providing the inspiration for University of Adelaide computer science research to find the best placement of turbines to increase wind farm productivity. Senior Lecturer Dr Frank Neumann, from the School of Computer Science, is using a “selection of the fittest” step-by-step approach called “evolutionary algorithms” to…

Rarely have I seen the blogosphere so alive with commentary as it is right now about the killing of Osama Bin Laden. Just to make my position clear, I don’t care what anyone thinks of President Obama’s overall performance, but it is undeniable that this is a decided plus. M. Simon and I both said…

There’s a blog for greedy lawyers, which is nice to see, because I believe that deviants and other misfits need to stick together. Hey, maybe I misspoke. I mean, is it really fair of me to describe greedy lawyers as “deviants” and “misfits”? To most people, “greedy lawyers” is a redundancy. Still, even if they…

Here’s a very San Francisco story about the problems which can be posed by carpet removal: When Jack Hagerty closed on his new condo three weeks ago, he thought it had everything he wanted: a quiet, safe Glen Park location, easy access to BART and a backyard for his 10-year-old son. Turns out it came…