Damien Mulley

Karen: Oh, honey… black, white, gay, straight, what’s the difference? We all finish ourselves off in the end anyway.

What a charming way to look at life.

A Few Good men “You can’t handle the truth” redone using the Half Life engine. Original audio still there and as dramatic as ever.

Space Invaders Crop Circle. Got via Tom Coates

Mirror Mask to be shown at Edinburgh Film Festival Aug 19th and 27th apparently.

World ‘s Largest Phone companies. China kicking the ass of everyone else. That’s where the money is, you’ve just been shown, so away with ya, g’wan!

Vermont goes for 100% Broadband availability by 2010. 5 years behind the UK and Northern Ireland and probably a few years ahead of Ireland. Cynical, moi? Yes.

Eu Consultation on bridging the digital divide. Everyone that cannot get broadband or has a mother, father, granny that cannot get broadband should reply to this consultation. 2 lines or 2000 lines can be submitted.

David Isenberg rips into the FCC for playing with broadband figures. Different country, same tricks.

In the Irish Times article Bridge blogs give voice to the marginalised talks about how a special type of blog known as a bridge blog helps the marginalised to have their say on matters.

blogger Hossein Derakhshan defined three metaphors for global blogs: “windows”, which give you a glimpse of life in another culture; “cafes”, which allow members of a culture to interact although geographically disparate; and “bridges”, which allow online interaction between cultures where little or none existed before.

So, are there bridge blogs in Ireland? Blogs for the Corrib farmers or the ex employees of Global Mobile Vision?

Technorati tags: irishblogs globalvoices global mobile vision

James Corbett’s GPS in Ireland openeir project is on the 3rd page of Google for the search phrase GPS Ireland. An open source GPS Map of Ireland is a great idea especially when a taxpayer funded OSI will not share their toys with the Irish people.

So let’s all use the phrase GPS in Ireland to link to James at this address: http://eirepreneur.blogs.com/eirepreneur/2005/04/openeir_the_ope.html and give him more Google juice. The more that know about the project the more that will start contributing to it.

Technorati Tags: openeir irishblogs

Damn you anyway Tyler James. Nice caravan you live in though. His version of White Town’s tune is actually good. His voice seems a bit like Will Young’s at times. It hasn’t annoyed me yet though. Out in August.

Oh and don’t worry, I’m still a music snob. Here to keep you happy are the lyrics to the Iron and Wine song: “Trapeze Swinger” Fantastic tune I must say, all 9 minutes of it. I also picked up Superwolf’s new album. Some good lyrics in that too. Wish I could find them online.

Please, remember me
Happily
By the rosebush laughing
With bruises on my chin
The time when
We counted every black car passing
Your house beneath the hill
And up until
Someone caught us in the kitchen
With maps, a mountain range,
A piggy bank
A vision too removed to mention
But

Please, remember me
Fondly
I heard from someone you’re still pretty
And then
They went on to say
That the pearly gates
Had some eloquent graffiti
Like ‘We’ll meet again’
And ‘Fuck the man’
And ‘Tell my mother not to worry’
And angels with their gray
Handshakes
Were always done in such a hurry
And

Please, remember me
At Halloween
Making fools of all the neighbors
Our faces painted white
By midnight
We’d forgotten one another
And when the morning came
I was ashamed
Only now it seems so silly
That season left the world
And then returned
And now you’re lit up by the city
So

Please, remember me
Mistakenly
In the window of the tallest tower call
Then pass us by
But much too high
To see the empty road at happy hour
Leave and resonate
Just like the gates
Around the holy kingdom
With words like ‘Lost and Found’ and ‘Don’t Look Down’
And ‘Someone Save Temptation’
And

Please, remember me
As in the dream
We had as rug-burned babies
Among the fallen trees
And fast asleep
Aside the lions and the ladies
That called you what you like
And even might
Give a gift for your behavior
A fleeting chance to see
A trapeze
Swing as high as any savior
But

Please, remember me
My misery
And how it lost me all I wanted
Those dogs that love the rain
And chasing trains
The colored birds above there running
In circles round the well
And where it spells
On the wall behind St. Peter’s
So bright with cinder gray
And spray paint
‘Who the hell can see forever?’
And

Please, remember me
Seldomly
In the car behind the carnival
My hand between your knees
You turn from me
And said ‘The trapeze act was wonderful
But never meant to last’
The clown that passed
Saw me just come up with anger
When it filled with circus dogs
The parking lot
Had an element of danger
So

Please, remember me
Finally
And all my uphill clawing
My dear
But if i make
The pearly gates
Do my best to make a drawing
Of G-d and Lucifer
A boy and girl
An angel kissin on a sinner
A monkey and a man
A marching band
All around the frightened trapeze swingers

Na-na
Na-na-na
Na-na
Na-na…

13th Dublin Lesbian and Gay Film Festival – 28 July to 1 August

Official Dublin Lesbian and Gay Film Festival website which is of course blank. 14 days to go and nothing is listed. Wondeful!

At least the IFI has the Film Fest Listings but saying that there doesn’t appear to be anything that looks really good. Lots of the films appear to have been around for a good while now.

Taken at the company BBQ this week. Grrr.

Wired Discovers GTD. Took them long enough. I’m sure this will get bigger for a while and then the fad will end and someone will find a carb-free version to distract themselves with.

Speaking of GTD, here comes Next Action and online GTD program to keep you chugging along and being efficient and productive.

The Firewall is Dead. Are the days of restrictive firewalls dead, to be replaced with tougher DMZs? I think firewalls will be used along with other things. Eventually I guess everything will go through packet analyers once they become easier and cheaper to use.

From security to blackhat SEO tricks.
How to use the DMCA to have websites blacklisted by Yahoo! Dangerous this is that DMCA and such a stupid law that it allows a lot of abuse.

Whitehouse gets a battering over Rove. Funny how the press let this all but drop running up to the election. Now that silly season is upon us we get to read about this. Still shows the press has a long way to go to restore the trust that they lost from some of the people.

The Logic of Suicide bombing. It does need discussion I guess.

Fireants into genetic engineering. Males and females wage war and remove the DNA of the other sex to ensure their own sex is born/harvested. I think I read that this weekend when I was reading the book “Emergence”.

RSS Clustering. *Shrug* RSS and Usability I guess. Will look at it later. Simpy’d it for now.

Just for Fixer. 100 quick and easy healthy foods.

David Weinberger reports on a Videocast using public Webcam

Hungarian woman living in London went to a public webcam in Covent Garden and used her cell phone to record her observations and feelings. A colleague videotaped a monitor displaying the webcam footage and an Hungarian news channel, NNTV.hu picked it up.

More citizen journalism being used. Sounds like a fun idea where you use a public webcam to do a webcast of sorts.

Ten Tips for New Trainers/Teachers and Eleven things to know.

Some great advice. Something that musn’t be forgotten about anyone in any job or even who just blog information is that we are all teachers in a way. We are all sharing information in various ways and hoping people will use it.