Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Breathtaking Free Fall
Here’s a video of World champion freediver Guillaume Nery special dive at Dean’s Blue Hole, the deepest blue hole in the world filmed entirely on breath hold by the french champion Julie Gautier. This video is a FICTION and an ARTISTIC PROJECT. Edited by BLUENERY (c). Music: ARCHIVE – you make me feel [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQITWbAaDx0]
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My iPad at My Pad
I got a nice surprise an hour ago… my shiny new iPad arrived, woohoo! All I have to do now, is work out why I bought it 🙂
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We ? Adobe
As Adobe & Apple slug it out over the Flash plug, arguing who is more “Open” I stumbled across something today that made me smile. A week ago Adobe placed Ad’s in the broadsheets in the US saying they Love Apple, and that they love choice… but I really smiled when someone, somewhere out there…
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It’s Hip to be Square
On Friday I downloaded a wonderful app for my iPhone named Hipstamatic… in essence you now have a Lomographic camera on your iPhone. The array of films, effects and lenses you can add are excellent. The whole interface and user experience has been beautifully thought through and is a joy to use. The app is…
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Portraits of Power
Last September, when nearly all the world’s leaders were in New York for a meeting of the United Nations, Avedon Platon, a staff photographer for The New Yorker set up a tiny studio off the floor of the General Assembly, and tried to hustle as many of them in front of his lens as possible. For…
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Openbook and Reclaim Privacy
Don’t get my wrong, I have nothing against facebook, in fact I think it’s great… but this whole privacy fiasco is becoming a PR nightmare! A couple of days ago I stumbled across reclaimprivacy.org a fantastic little javascript, that safely scans your privacy settings and warns you of any problems. But taking a completely different…
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Less Is More
Sometimes too much choice is a bad thing… Facebook’s privacy settings have more options than ordering a coffee in Starbucks! To see what I mean follow this link to the NY Times
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Judit & Judit
I’d not heard of Judit and Judit before, but they appear to be a couple of comediennes from Sweden, anyway their parody of YouTube greats is brilliant [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NL2IRmYbA0]
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Morning Sickness
If you’ve just eaten, or have a weak stomach, then please don’t watch this! This went out on live TV, what’s amazing is how she sits back down looking wonderful and carries on almost as if nothing happened! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x02PqtMgBBA]
Got any book recommendations?