Download all the portraits David Lachapelle has done.
Another US Court rules websites are not liable for users’ comments.
Top 10 questions investors/angels/VCs ask. According to Wufoo.
How to run up a wall and flip. Wear lots of padding.
Fiat v Ferrari v Ferrari F1 Via MeFi.
The ultimate shredder. BMWs can’t even stop it.
Read these to the tune of O Fortuna.
Via Metafilter is the Perfect Strangers medley.
150 everyday expressions that Shakespeare gave us.
James Galvin reviews “The Proposition”. A great review I have to say. Makes me want to get the DVD and buy Nick Cave’s book: And the Ass Saw the Angel which James describes so:
a book which makes The Wasp Factory resemble a Ladybird Classic
The Google spreadsheet tour. I bet this will fully integrate into Google base and probably Google Wallet whenever it appears. Google Blogoscoped and Inside Google discuss more of the details. Limited sign-up too which is good as a few of the previous sign-ups turned into disasters. Spreadsheets being edited by multiple people at the same time seems like an advantage over Excel. You can invite people to edit and use Google Talk to chat with them as you both/all work on it. Nice collaboration tool.
Great vid from Barcamp on web 2.0. Requires quicktime. Required watching for Thursday. Listen to the very serious question from a programmer at the end. Reminded me of someone I know from around these shores.
So it seems the NUJ of UK and Ireland have called for a boycott of Yahoo! for their complicity in having a Chinese journalist jailed. Simon reminded us yesterday that it was the anniversary of the guy who stopped Chinese tanks with only the belief that freedom was worth facing down the killer machines of the Chinese Government. Now if only Yahoo! felt the same instead of being the co-driver in those thanks. Tom Raftery asked Bradley Horowitz before about Yahoo!’s bootlicking in China and he has also asked Vint Cerf about Google in China. Both gave bullshit answers in my view but these really are questions the top guys in Google and Yahoo! need to be answering.
Terry Semel tried to defend Yahoo! recently and then someone asked the Nazi question. Would Yahoo! have done business with the Nazi’s if Yahoo! was around in that era and the guy said he didn’t know. I only just looked up Terry’s profile. He’s the damned CEO and he doesn’t know? You can forgive Bradley Horowitz but the guy where the buck stops doesn’t know. Dumbass. I guess their corporate philosophy is just some ornament to hang in the boardroom. Jeff Jarvis makes the usual sense but also tears big strips too.
But lets not let Google away with this either. Check out the big difference in Google searches for Tiananmen Square on Google China and Google.com. It’s not rewriting history. It’s using invisble ink for some paragraphs, right?
Update: Linked to Simon’s site, not the site on making landing pages. Sorry.
Via Waxy Cory Doctorow visits a Radio Shack.
Via BoingBoing is the Mobile thong.
Fecking great photo from Ryan.
Keith Bohanna’s domain auction made €366.95 quid for IT@Cork. Nice nice nice.
the web is a platform for idealism. It’s not a conversation, it’s not a business model, it’s so big it’s basically everything having to do with human knowledge and communication, at least for the forseeable future. Let them have Web 2.0â„¢, it’s not important. What is important is that the users are running the show, and if you want to get behind that, be a user, and leave it at that.
Via you Ain’t no picasso. 35 bands on 3 stages over three days. All this for $24. Fecking hell!
Antoin mentions Aspoke will give you a free laptop skin for less than the price of your first born’s soul. The offer ends 1 August 2006. You can avail of these skins in two ways. Go see the movie “An Inconvenient Truth” or link to Aspoke’s offer and link to the movie website. That simple.
I don’t use a laptop but I do have a fridge and a washing machine. There’s a crowd out there in the digital world that do skins for fridges. I’d love if Antoin had skins for those or even skins for those cheap mini-fridges. Have a competition for the geeks offering a skinned mini-fridge packed with gatorade and redbull for some of the start-up companies and give them skins for their laptops too. Nice pimpage for Aspoke when these kids go all around the country/world selling their product and demoing at conferences.
Antoin, are you coming to the IT@Cork gig? Might be worth coming down now with some sexy skinned laptops.
Sept 19th Update. For today’s fire go here.
Somewhere on the Northside.
Update: Donncha provides more details and photos.
Scrap yard in Dublin Hill apparently. Donncha’s photos should be published in the Echo. Very artistic for a scrap metal fire. 🙂
The smell of rubber and other ghastly burning smells is invading Ballintemple at the moment. Seems like a big bloody fire alright.
Karole Cuddihy gives an excellent analysis of the Mr. A case, I’m quite surprised we don’t have more academics getting online and explaining how the legal system works. There should be a few classes in final year law on how to write for the public and break down the barrier between the stuffy legal clichés and the general public, especially at a time when the trust for lawyers is decreasing even more. The A case was a great lesson on how the legal system works and the whole idea of separation of powers. It’s a pity there wasn’t more outreaching to the general populace to explain the beauty of the system, although Joe Duffy led hysteria might have put lawyers off.
Doc Searls presents at Reboot8.
We are not seats or eyeballs or end users or consumers, we are human beings – and our reach exceeds yor grasp. deal with it.
Sinéad is tempting me to buy more books and dvds.
Seth Godin: How to get traffic to your blog. Rajesh Setty has a less tongue-in-cheek list.
I posted a video before about Diet Coke reacting with Mentos, this is the chemical reaction taken to artistic extremes with 200 liters of Diet Coke and over 500 Mentos mints.
Machine Gun Mania:I went to a driving range today for the first time in about 15 years or so. I need to toughen my skin. Both hands are covered in blisters. Anyway, here’s an amazing hole in one. It hits the rough and then then then slowly rolls on to the green and into the hole: