Beep Beep.
What’s the name of your car? If you give it a name, is it a woman’s name?
Give your car a name? If so, what?
April 25th, 2009
Of language and communication
April 24th, 2009I’m completely ignorant of Autism, not a clue to be honest, I’m sure like so many more. When I hear or read about it I think of the wonderful Sharon and her Family Voyage blog and the passion she has on the subject. This video blew my mind wide open. Worth every second of your time. Not blew my mind in a “my god people with Autism can communicate” but in how Amanda Baggs has shown in this eight minute video just how limited my interaction with the world around me is. The first part of this is 3 minutes or so long, then comes the “translation” from Amanda’s language to ours.
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Guaranteed to be the most watched video on YouTube
April 24th, 2009In Ireland at least
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KildareStreet.com – Gamechange
April 24th, 2009John Handelaar finally released it after some of us were made aware and were sitting on the edges of our seats waiting for it. What is it? Every word, every phrase, every double-speaking utterance from the Oireachtas since 2004 (for now). All searchable, sortable and subscribable. You can even email subscribe for keywords or phrases and get alerted.
KildareStreet.com, they’re working for you afterall.
Photo owned by Fiona MacGinty (cc)
Fluffy Links – Thursday April 23rd 2009
April 23rd, 2009Adrian has a nice way of tackling those moaning about Twitter.
Via Fergus: One London policeman talks about the stupid terrorism line.
Via Justin: The Emergency has a blog.
Toilets for aliens. Really!
Zip your Tweetie. Twink is on Twitter?
Yeah I was on Q&A.
Got this from somewhere, RC plane gets a bit too close to a jet plane:
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And via Kottke is the bike-fu from this guy:
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eircom innovation fund 2009 – Get your idea in before April 30th
April 22nd, 2009100k split between four companies/ideas:
1. €16,000 cash sum;
2. One-day business mentoring session from senior eircom execs to the value of €3,000;
3. €1,000 per month for six months post-launch management fee
Full details on the eircom Labs page.
Areas to consider for a pitch:
- Content (e.g. video, short films, animations, UGC)
- Movies and TV (e.g. programme recommendations, listings application, information aggregation, content search, fan communities, recommender systems, discovery tools e.g. data visualisations))
- Games (e.g. Flash games, game communities, platforms, multiplayer games, persistent worlds, avatar-based social networks, game creation tools, ratings, reviews, gambling)
- News (e.g. personalised news gathering, news aggregation, news submission tools, communities of interest, domain-specific news services)
- Music (e.g. Internet radio, streaming / OD services, search / recommendations / personalisation, community tools)
- Sport (e.g. communities, results aggregation, fan communities, results prediction, betting, games)
- Widgets (e.g. any widget(s) based on the above or additional categories)
Fluffy Links – Wednesday April 22nd 2009
April 22nd, 2009Loving this. Songs as dialogue boxes.
Great post from Twenty on health spas in Ireland. I think.
Rick talks about the RTE player but Rick *is* the RTE playa really.
Slow to point this out. Another foodie blog: I Can Haz Cook.
So who went to see the MAXRoam racing car?
Via the Enterprise Ireland mailing list, SEO Guide for Irish Businesses eBook from Cube. (PDF)
Check out the Robo Rugby finals.
What a joke, first they shut down a site because it mentioned a football fixture and now they’re going after a Twitter account.
Genius. Asking people on Twitter not to download pirate copies of movies.
Reelgood show themselves off:
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Fluffy Links – Monday April 20th 2009
April 20th, 2009So Lily Collison is yet another Collison family member that’s blogging. This blog post is one of my favourites but there are loads more. Mother , Father and three sons now have blogs, though not all blog.
Tommy meanwhile has started a Youth Discussion forum.
We got Ze Frank a duckie for his talk.
Want a businessy looking Twitter background?
Meanwhile, good post from Paul about a Google Penalty.
Ben & Jerry’s Free Cone Day is tomorrow. In Dublin. No Cork like?
11.30am / 1.00pm: IFSC George’s Dock
2.30pm / 4.00pm: Grand Canal Dock (near Fresh)
5.30pm / 7.00pm: Near Heuston Luas Station
Win a Wine Course.
Green Party caption competition.
Wilco are coming back to Dublin.
Yeah, very WTF.
Birdhouse In Your Soul – Literal Video Version
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Terry Prone – Not a fan of bloggers or journos who blog
April 20th, 2009Some amazing alliteration as always.
in setting out to strengthen privacy legislation the government could hamstring legitimate media — which operate under guidelines, internal checks and balances, and have a capacity for educated caution which amounts to some form of self-censoring — while doing nothing to stop the venting of venomous bilge that constitutes the bulk of what’s euphemistically dubbed “citizen journalism”
It must be said, however, that the openness of journalists to examine all sides of possible legislation is currently complicated by their promiscuous fascination with internet-based offerings.
You don’t get orthopaedic surgeons doing knee replacements in their leisure time without charge. Yet you get journalists writing blogs for nothing, their urge for self-expression obscuring the fact that they are undermining their own employers.
Flash Mob at Stag’s Head, Dublin tonight at 8pm – Wear an A
April 18th, 2009Flash Mob at Stag’s Head tonight at 8pm. Draw a circle on your hand. #zefrank #sciencegallery
Update:
Have an A on your hand.