Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Federal Reserve Gifts $13 Billion To Bailed Out Banks
Federal Reserve lends out $7.7 billion at 0.01% interest, buy treasuries and profit approximately $13 billion off of 3% interest. That’s ten times the size of TARP. Can we impeach Ben Bernanke? This is egregious. Crony capitalism at its worst. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire…
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Rusty Motorbike B & W
Rusty Motorbike bw, a photo by tobyct on Flickr. Reminds me of my old roommate and current good friend, Jason. He loves old Honda motorcycles and usually seemed to have a couple around that looked like this.
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Christian Laettner
Oh wow this is funny, Chris Farley re-enacting one of the most iconic shots in NCAA basketball history. “LOOSE BALL!!!” Has anyone else ever seen this before?
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SOPA – Protect IP
Another good example of Congress in lockstep with the main stream media companies. Is this really just to stop illegal downloading? Sure movies and albums cost money to produce, and I am fully in support of that. But it would take more than an act of Congress to stop downloading, more like a miracle. Congress…
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Adobe Dumps Mobile Flash
Most frequent complaint about the iPhone? “Doesn’t support Flash.” You can also say that about Adobe after they announced it will no longer develop Flash for mobile devices. Adobe had been hedging its bet on Flash by adding HTML5 elements in Dreamweaver and Illustrator, so you can see that Adobe saw this as somewhat inevitable.…
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RIP Joe Frazier
http://www.hulu.com/watch/35052/the-simpsons-barney-instigates-a-fight
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How To Carve A Pumpkin
More ‘splosions in public schools will keep kids interested. Happy Halloween!
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Beer Can Chicken
Even though the Seahawks turned chicken at the sight of Ted Ginn running back kicks & punts, no one should be intimidated by roasting a chicken. Even if you are what you eat, beer can chicken is so easy there is no reason to be scared.
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Kyle Alm is a Winner!
Overheard on KJR 950 Sports Radio (minus the video clip): What movie is it from? http://twitter.com/#!/keepkalm/status/108265948682788864 @keepkalm winner!!! — Dave Softy Mahler (@Softykjr) August 29, 2011 So I win Mariner’s tickets. Any game of my choice. I’ve been entering a lot of online contests lately, mainly for guitar gear and related swag. I haven’t won anything…
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Blue Scholars – Cinemetropolis
Blue Scholars crowd-sourced their album “Cinemetropolis” on kickstarter. Seattle hip-hop duo Geologic & Sabzi are back from the lab to follow up Bayani. Just listening to the first track right now. Sabzi really is on to something incredible. Seriously, the beats are just incredible. Special shout outs to Sonics icon Slick Watts and Gen X…
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