This site seems a bit wobbly since last night. Hang tight, it’ll be okay soon. Really.
Author: Damien Mulley
Wobbly
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008She’s happy to see you
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008Can you tell? (Props to Michael)
With apologies to Midget Wrangler
Monday, February 25th, 2008In a discussion with someone who announced AFTER that he was her ex and in my excitement that she was coming to the Blog Awards, I said that some of the content from Midget Wrangler was “filthy“. And I was being the typical catholic schooled conservative person when I said it, though not thinking like Fr. Ted with a placard. I never thought or think she should stop being transparent about her sex life, it’s just the frankness of it and it juxtaposed with other tamer topics is quite new and refreshing. She’s a good writer and should not be stopped from continuing to be one and write what she wants to write. My humblest apologies for offending you and a slap to a certain someone for leaving the tact jacket at home.
Fluffy Links – Monday February 25th 2008
Monday, February 25th, 2008Via Jimmy Carroll are details about the Cork French Film Festival and specifically La Jetée set to music. Am there.
Brian Vaughan has a new blog. Say hello.
Sully’s blog is out there too.
I’m not sure is the Munster Express meant to be parody, fair and balanced or something else. This is an odd story.
Three is releasing a pay as you go broadband service. Something I think has been needed for years. No contract at all needed now. This might very well suit students and lots of other people besides. Would love to see the takeup. The three network is improving in some places but is awful in others still. Hopefully o2 and Vodafone might release something like this too.
BreakingNews.ie cock up again. They proudly talked at the UCC Journo conference last week about how one person can power the whole service. Oversight might be good.
Some t-shirts for VCs.
I still prefer Jazz Biscuit’s CC photo search tool but this plugin is also neato.
Neil Gaiman posted about a Coraline 3D trailer. Good quality but we have to wait for the cinema to appreciate the 3D goodness:
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Sylvain Chauveau – Never Let Me Down Again
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Trunk Monkey – Interesting ads for a car dealer
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Prince tears it up – While my Guitar Gently Weeps
Friday, February 22nd, 2008At the end of 2004 Rock`n`Roll Hall Of Fame Show this version of While My Guitar Gently Weeps was shown. Tom Petty, Jeff Lynn, Prince and more.
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Eamon Ryan’s One day meeting on broadband costs taxpayers €50k
Friday, February 22nd, 2008From a question about the International Advisory Forum on Broadband.
222. Deputy Simon Coveney asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the cost to the Exchequer of the International Advisory Forum on broadband to be held in Dublin later this month. [7197/08]
Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (Deputy Eamon Ryan): The estimate of the cost of the International Advisory Forum on broadband is €50,000.
8 people will be the ones telling Ryan over the course of the day how to plan the future of broadband in Ireland. That money would nearly pay for the enabling of an exchange in a rural Ireland to get broadband. That’s 50k less for the provision of broadband.
Blog Awards 2008 – Goody bags, Qik and sponsorship
Friday, February 22nd, 2008So the merchandise for the Blog Awards is looking a bit sparse at the moment. If you work in a company (or have a friend that does) that would like to have their merchandise or samples given out to a few hundred bloggers, give me a shout.
If you want to do video live stream on the night of the Blog Awards using QIK let me know. Qik have created a dedicated channel for us. I’ll also be giving out some cards to avail of the net access there since the Alexander charge for that at a high fee. You ideally need to have a Nokia N95 to do the live video streaming.
Oh yes, there are also two sponsorship slots available for the Awards, due to a sponsor pulling out and the other slot is for sponsorship of nametags.
Right now 360 people are registered to go to the Awards. And with only a week to go I had my first Awards disaster dream. Things are heating up!
Fluffy Links – Friday 22nd February 2008
Friday, February 22nd, 2008The Irish taxman is checking out our Facebook profiles. Some of ours anyway.
When you piss off a web design firm, they might latch on to your domain. Check out the UK Labour site.
We based version of Mathematica. Nice.
We should have a Top Cats event in Ireland or have Paul bring some Irish to the Top Cats London events.
Clever way of increasing readers on Twitter. 1000th sub wins a consultancy gig from you. Twitter is more than just broadcast though. How many will stick around if you just push out links to blog posts all day long?
Free second chapter from the new Crowdsourcing book
Staying with books and free. Free books via the Freakonomics blog.
This is just rocking. Control your PC or Mac or any OS using the touchscreen on your iPod or iPhone.
For those burned by HD DVD, a guide on how to rip them.
Everyone speaking at CreativeCamp should see this talk on how to give a talk.
The Gravity powered lamp. So clever. So simple.
Patrick Stewart in his scene in Extras.
Disrupt CCTV cameras with infrared L.E.D.s
Elmo evolution. Just after I getting the other one. Bastards.
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Blowing shit up, NASA style:
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Eamon Ryan v Shane Ross on Prime Time
Thursday, February 21st, 2008Audio is out of synch with the video, sorry. Watch Ryan’s bodylanguage. Audio is good quality.
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With thanks to James Gallagher, you’ll also notice he’s joined Fianna Fáil:
