Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • To all dog lovers!

    A friend of mine is a dog person and not a cat lover. Here is a quote I came across this morning. Dedicated to my friend. Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. Also reminds me of Babel-fish in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

  • Some lines

    Was just reading a few blogs and came across a few lines that I liked or had some connection. Dextrous Doings – Comment by Sunrise: Haven’t we all been there… the only thing good about life is that there is a new day waiting for you at the end of each terrible one… and that…

  • Return of the Prince

    The Nagpur ODI signalled the return of our very own Dada to international cricket and a return that was not supposed to be. Go and read GreatBong’s thoughts on it. True. However, this fairy tale has come true. And really, how could it not? It had a prince in it. Awesome!!

  • Oscar Predictions

    The Oscar nominations are out and I am sticking my neck out to guess who would win. Best Actor – Leonardo DiCaprio Best Supporting Actor – Mark Whalberg Best Supporting Actress – Adriana Barazza Best Animated Film – Cars Best Direction – United 93 Film Editing – Babel Best Picture – The Departed Other categories,…

  • AJAXified Timelines

    I was trying to look up some way to present some data to a client when I stumbled upon this AJAX widget by SIMILE project run by a group at MIT. The group works on semantic web technologies and besides Timeline, has tools like Babel, to convert data, and Exhibit, which is a publishing framework.…

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