The +ve bun

and costs $99
click on pic for spek

I wonder is it plug and play (ha! douze points) ?

Just played Flower (a new paradigm in gaming?) on our PS3 .
There are no instructions or tutorials !
Even Mick in the office swapped his online Quake3 Friday afternoon research to have a go.

He said it made him want to run through the fields naked (Flower not Quake3).
I put this into art because it is.
Douze [...]

Plato are giving away 3 free students to do your Google Adwords for free.

Google Online Marketing Challenge
DCU are running a Google Online Marketing Challenge for businesses where they will assign three students to a company. The DCU students will set up a google adwords account and run a 3 week campaign for the [...]

After all these years of West Wing i’ve been politically checkmated and duped by a non skiing northsider Columbo fan into believing that Karl Marks(sic) predicted the current madness.
All is revelaed here… click on pic to be enlightened.

no champagne for the workers then !

hint : he has never gone skiing !
“Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks, which will have to be nationalised, [...]

“Are you ready to be fitted for your Ironman suit? Is it time to stop aging, upload your memories onto silicon and engineer your progeny to be happy geniuses? Can we get you a real hamburger that wasn’t made from a slaughtered cow?”
I used to read WIRED and be baffled by the clever stuff. So [...]

FIANNA FAIL has just hired the web firm (see previous) that worked on the Obama campaign.
Ok FFail, here is some free consultancy thrown in for free…
What BO did was have a good website that worked, was easy to use and had good content. All that mytwitbookspaceface stuff is just digital frills that the media loves [...]

Getting heavy for the lads…
From the Irish Times…
“Bono has championed the call for increases in aid to impoverished countries, yet in his personal life he is engaged in tax avoidance issues and it is tax avoidance that is undermining the possibility of developing countries fighting their way out of poverty,”
“The practice of being able to [...]

Most people have seen this but what is interesting is that my son (12yrs) and all his mates are now big Eddie Izzard fans because of the lego animations they watch on YouTube. In their world, the lego sketches came first and Eddie Izzard 2nd… ie, he is the guy who does the voiceover for [...]

France 24 iPhone stats: Two weeks after the launch of its France 24 Live application for the iPhone, French broadcaster France 24 said the app has been downloaded more than 100,000 times around the world. Of all the free news applications available on iTunes, FRANCE 24 LIVE ranks among the top 10 worldwide; including in [...]

With iTunes Pass, music fans can get new and exclusive singles, remixes, video and other content from their favorite artists over a set period of time, delivered to their libraries as soon as they’re available.
Starting with Depeche Mode, fans who sign up starting today get the alternative/dance pioneers? new single Wrong in addition to the [...]

Internet Acronyms Dictionary
MTM (mad ted mad)

They are looking for someone to build a mytwitbookspaceface democracy widget for the kids…
“The Government recognises the widespread use of the internet and in particular a huge increase in the use of digital communities and social media. It also recognises that despite significant advances in Government web, there is now an opportunity to significantly [...]

more YouTube hoaxers…

I bet that girl Boxxy is involved in this ?

Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street
click angrily on pic if you want the quod erat demonstrandum

wow… just noticed the positive use of negative space in the Wired logo (douze points to their designer).

interactive praying… only takes 10 mins. Doesn’t seem to work on a Mac !
click gently on the pic

Eircom have put up 100,000 euro for innovative web applications. Free consultancy with senior Eircom execs is also thrown in for free.

I have this idea called beerface.com where people who are friends in real life ring each other and say…
“do you want to go for a pint ?”.
They then meet up and have a [...]

Lady Greenfield, professor of synaptic pharmacology at Lincoln college, Oxford believes that Social network sites risk infantilising the mid-21st century mind, leaving it characterised by short attention spans, sensationalism, inability to empathise and a shaky sense of identity.
full article here (The Guardian)
10 pints of guinness has the same effect on me !

if they have stuff like this… (still doesn’t work on the iPhone !)
The Fall – Victoria on MUZU.
I put this into ‘Art’ rather than music.
Competition time :
Are The Fall art or music (or both) : Discuss !
Fact : John Peel Loved The Fall & The Undertones but hated U2 !

someone just sent me this info. Doesn’t mean he is wrong about the bankers ! (see 2 posts down)
click on pic for more info

i liked the bit : “Miss Brimelow… worked for the BBC as a legal adviser on EastEnders.”

Nuclear strength duct tape. You know you want it !
click on pic for full spek

handy for taping up the wrists of your orange rubber gloves (in case of a nuclear attack) !
respek to Ado

A bit late there lads… (any WW fan knows it is a smokescreen !)
There is a great quote from the former UK DPP Sir Ken MacDonald…
“If you mug someone in the street and you are caught,
the chances are that you will go to prison.
In recent years, mugging someone out of their savings
or their pension would [...]

Technology giant Microsoft has been forced to make an embarrassing climb-down after it asked some former employees to return part of their redundancy payments.
In what the company has described as an “administrative error”, a handful of workers were given around $5,000 more than the severance pay they were entitled to after being made redundant last [...]

MTV UK today launched the second phase of its redeveloped www.mtv.co.uk website
“The new www.mtv.co.uk further extends the 360 degree, multi-platform experience, driving audiences from online to linear television and retaining the TV audience whilst a show is off air.”
Translation : You can watch it on TV or the internet.

Why is the MTV online chart completely [...]

looks like it is global !
check them out here
can’t wait for the www.twitterfall/endoftheworld tweets !
click on pic for more info from The Guardian…

apparently…
“The Gmail communications team in London were unable to send out statements on what went wrong… because their email was down.”
also…
“Let’s count the cost: 25m users, 33% affected;
average of $50 per hour lost [...]

ME’s Tim Green spent last week with the rest of the mobile industry in Barcelona.
I like the bit…
“White men in suits told Telecom TV reporters about how mobile services have to be ‘personalised and relevant and all about you’. I’m sceptical. Yes, I want the choice to tweak my mobile web and app store [...]

Q: Why does our front door lock turn clockwise to open and the lock of the door at the top of the stairs turns anti-clockwise to open ?
The correct answer wins 1 internets.

Wouldn’t have happened to Radiohead…
Meanwhile is this the new Smoke On The Water ?

run Larry run !

ROLFCON…the oscars/conference of “internet microcelebrities” was on last week and i think we’ve found a girlfriend for mick called Boxxy (the ‘new’ YouTube star).
Maybe he should change his name to Mickk ? (douze points if you do)
Disclaimer : contains swearing in an american accent

run Mickk run !

More BandInTheHand apps coming out of the woodwork.
This is turning into the Walkman story Pt2 !
click on pic for more info