Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Doin\’ the Butt (Drag)
Yesterday, the C-level officers of simpleprop.com met at a local undisclosed pizza place for lunch. Here we compared ourselves to the framers of the constitution (true), came up with a far-fetched embezzlement scheme to make us wildly rich (true), and talked about the strategic future of this here website (not true). We also talked about…
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Movie Reviews
I haven\’t done one of these in a long time, mostly because I stopped going to movies for a while there. I\’m now back on the horse, so let\’s roll through some mini-reviews for a few flicks I\’ve been out to see lately.
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R.I.P., Leslie Nielsen
I learned late last night that Leslie Nielsen passed away, succumbing to complications from a recent bout of pneumonia. I was surprised to learn that he was 84 years old; to me, he seemed ageless, looking the same in 1980\’s Airplane! as he did in 2006\’s Scary Movie 4. His peak, though, was the Naked…
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Dying Technologies
Business Week recently highlighted twenty technologies that they believe are on the way out. But are they? When you ask a spokesperson for the Chevy Volt if gasoline engines are dead, can you really trust the answer? Let’s take a look…
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Monday Night Commercials
Fascinating article on Yahoo! Sports this morning. The gist of the story is that NFL Referees have the role of asking coaches to call timeouts to accommodate television network needs.
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MN State Fair 2010 – Day 2
I know I\’m a bit tardy in updating my state fair food cheat sheet, but this should still be helpful for 2011 and just for posterity\’s sake.
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2010 Vikings Preview
After last season\’s heartbreaking loss in the NFC title game I never had the motivation to properly wrap up last season. Continuing in the long storied tradition of my Scandinavian forefathers we\’ll just pretend last season never happened and we\’ll take those feelings of anger and crumple them up into a little ball and put…
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MN State Fair 2010 – Day 1
Yesterday was Day 1 of the 2010 State Fair as well as Day 1 for myself. I\’ll be attending again next Thursday. This isn\’t because I have a undying love affair with travel to Falcon Heights, it\’s because I\’ve had/have inlaws in town who are fascinated with this unique slice of Americana.
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The Great Minnesota Photo Scavenger Hunt
Tomorrow is the first day of the 2010 Minnesota State Fair. I will be in attendance and hope to get back on the SP bandwagon by giving a full rundown of the fair (both my visits this year) on the site, but in the meantime, thanks to Jill for sharing her annual Photo Scavenger Hunt.…
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F***in\’ Brilliant
The headline on Yahoo! News read: “Mass. mom mixed on FCC indecency ruling.†If you hadn’t heard, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the FCC\’s indecency policy on \”fleeting expletives\” was unconstitutional.
Got any book recommendations?