The +ve bun

Click etc…

“I will stop and think very hard about joining an organisation that
insists on destroying everything good about music in Ireland.”

If you go to Mexico… Click etc…

Why are WiFi connections in hotels rubbish !
Click below for full rant…

oh… happy new year to 2010…

The famous Steve Albini Rant…
Click the honest face for more…

More Music Biz Swindleness…
Pluck the venal tree for more…

“Here’s what I want: I want to be told what to read, watch and listen to. I want my hands tied. I want a cultural diet. I want a government employee to turn up on my doorstep once a month, carrying a single book for me to read. I want all my TV channels removed [...]

Click for more from Electric News…

EL&B get a hammering in the Guardian’s readers comments
Click Rich Pop Star for more (The Guardian)

Apparently it is a direct marketing campaign…
Google has launched a direct marketing campaign focussing on opportunities for Irish SMEs to grow their businesses online.
“Proportionate to our size of population, we buy far more online than our European neighbours: 94% of internet users in Ireland have shopped online, placing Ireland in the top 10 countries in [...]

DV4 has created an iPhone app called Band In The Hand

here is the story so far…
App uploaded for approval on the 4th Aug
Reply from Apple on 11th Aug
“At this time, BandInTheHand cannot be posted to the App Store because it is crashing on both iPhone 3G running iPhone OS 3.0.1 and iPod touch running iPhone [...]

is modern life rubbish ?

try another !

Interesting research from the UK (The Leading Question) suggests that file sharing (or illegal downloading) of music is on the decline as legal services become more prevalent and offer what people want at a price they’re willing to pay. Taking a sample of 1,000 people across the 14-64 age group, the amount admitting to file [...]

Charlie Brooker’s rant and faf…
Click on CB (Guardian) for more…

nice vexed face there charlie.

I always find people who play chess (or at least can play chess) a bit smug. When I say “play”, I mean play properly. Like most people, I know the way the pieces move and the basic rules of the game but I haven’t a clue about the “Sicilian Defence” or the “Ruy Lopez” and [...]

Another John Stewart Classic…

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
M – Th 11p / 10c

CNBC Financial Advice

comedycentral.com

Anyone have tickets ?

The Sunday Times writes that celebrities are using ghost writers to update their Twitter feeds, with rapper 50 Cent one of the first to be outed. The American star’s tweets are written by Chris Romero, who looks after 50 Cent’s webpages.
Britney Spears has also employed staff to write her Twitter updates for her, with [...]

Hard to believe that in 2009 anyone would release a new OS with the top two new features being Search and Copy-and-Paste. Even more hard to believe that this would be an announcement from the masters of GUI and usability. What next? Multitasking?
Apple announces iPhone OS 3.0

biblical….
i like the bit :
“I am inclined to wonder if
there is a line somewhere in the
Book of Revelation that proclaims…
‘And a comic shall lead them’…
Click on JC.. no… sorry… JS for the truth and the light (Guardian)

eviscerated he was… eviscerated!

Click on Joe for an adrian weckler rant

apparently the FFail website is hosted in the USA !

Someone has set up their own Twitter website to get a job in Twitter.

If you tweet about working in Twitter will this not cause some sort of time travel mobius loop black hole randomness ?

More mytwitbookspaceface tools for kids who have lost the ability to make friends.

TheBlurb:
“Peek is a social networking app that lets you find other users in your area (or anywhere, really), who can share photos and things on their profiles. When you run the application, Peek uses your iPhone’s GPS to identify your location, which it [...]

Douze points to whoever can spot the difference :

a newspaper… ummm…. what about black text on white ?
Jeremy Clarkson (top right TimesOnline) :
“Forget about getting a job. There aren’t any.”

Forget the ISP wars…
Amazon might be close to cracking the illegal downloading problem by selling popular tracks for 29p and albums for 3 of your GB pounds.

Meanwhile, Tesco Digital is selling U2’s new album, No Line On the Horizon, for 3.97 of your GB pounds.
I’ve always said that if tracks were 10cent the opportunity [...]

Watch between your fingers with your hand up to your face… guys…this is bad !

douze points for the use of schadenfreude

In showbiz, supermodels and movie stars request that they be shot in ‘anamorphic’. This stretches the video to make the person look slimmer.
Was this the case in the FFail webcast or (after all that expensive consultancy from the ‘guys who won the election for Obama’) a simple video aspect ratio error.
See below for before and [...]

Certainly not The West Wing (oliagenous, hagiographic American propaganda); as in any “Best Ever” debate it is a reductive, simplistic and blinkered subjectivity to offer up only one TV show. “My Favorite TV show” is fine but to say “Best TV show ever” and not mention The Wire, The Sopranos, Twin Peaks, Arrested Development etc [...]

I checked out the myFiannaFail online interweb invention that FF made after paying for Top Secret Tips from the guys who won the Obama election. (see previous)
So… the 1st thing I noticed was that during the Ard Fheis there were just 21 people following the big event on Twitter and that most of the tweets [...]

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 !