Who was it that said “most men lead lives of quiet desperation”, well go pick up Thomas Wolfe’s “Look Homeward Angel” written when he had escaped the “stony grey soil” of his native North Carolina and listen to him rage, rage against the dying of the light. What a voice.
Archive for January, 2006
oh lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost come back again
January 29, 2006New Skype Feature
January 28, 2006Skype have just introduced a new feature called Beer Share. Its a nifty little tool that allows two people on different sides of the world to drink the same bottle of beer. See photo below for this in action. Mind you it only works of the other person is your brother.
things to make and do…
January 9, 2006ok its a new feature, once a week we’ll feature something in the real world, yes not here in cyber space but something to do in the real world, remeber where that is?
This week its a bug box from a great site called the http://www.thetoymaker.com
You print off the pdf and cut out and make the object or toy, try it you’ll be surpried and amazed at the fact that there is a third dimension.
bring back the test card
January 9, 2006Rember when RTE1 (Irelands first National TV station) used to stop broadcasting around 11.30pm in the evening. Programing would stop, we’d get a blast of the national anthem and then the test card till the following lunch time. And we’d all head off to bed cause frankly there was feck all else to do but at least you’d get to bed at a reasonable hour.
Well I’m staring a petition, send an e-mail to info@rte.ie and ask them to switch off at 11 or 11.30 and show the owld test card. If we took all the dross out of the schedule and just broadcast between 6pm and midnight, we might actually get something worth watching.
incest is best
January 9, 2006I’m fascinated by people like Sethin Goodin, so called web marketing guru, who has made a mint out of convincing people that they can make a mint out of convincing people. Surely he’s no different from the guys who sell the programmes on how to get rich. Thats how they get rich, convincing people that there is a programme they can use to get rich and taking 30 or 40 bucks for the pleasure. Goodin and all the other Web 2.0 guru’s are nothing more than snake oil salesmen selling a circular vision, a self fulfilling prophesy.
if you dont know what the word ‘erudite’ means, get yourelf a dictionary and go here…
January 6, 2006…for a daily dose of brain stretching
a wonderfully, eclectic, enlightening, forgiving waste of time…
January 6, 2006
Over a period of 3 months Simon Hoegsberg, stopped 150 strangers and asked them what they were thinking of the second before he stopped them, recorded it and took their photo, incredible responses and photos.
for crying out loud, just turn of your computer and read a freakin book for once!
January 5, 2006
try this one before you even think of going to the movies to look at some schmaltzy bastardised version of Proulx’s inspiring language on another freakin screen. Read you muppet. Read!
whats that song about time in a bottle?
January 5, 2006I first read this old chestnut a few years ago and just found the link again, its a Newsweek article about the environment and how we are facing a global ice age, all the rage apparently in 1975. The Cooling World
another one bites the dust…
January 5, 2006Who would have thought that smoking would have become such a pariah, that the global warming scare would be slowy reveled as just that (any neah sayers can bite me) and now we have the obesity tribunal…
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