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World’s Fair Use Day

January 12th was World’s Fair Use Day . The event was an all-day celebration of the doctrine of fair use: the legal right that allows innovators and creators to make particular uses of copyrighted materials. WFUD was held at the Newseum in Washington D.C., organized by Public Knowledge , a Washington D.C.-based non-profit, consumer-advocacy group.
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The evolution of entertainment media

It occurred to me a few weeks ago, just how much I’ve changed the way I collect and store entertainment media. Eventually I put it down to 3 factors:
1. The reduction in the cost of hard drives has had a huge impact, making it possible to store an entire music (or movie) collection on one [...]

Farewell to north inner city Dublin – Part 3: The Coffee shops

For part 3 of my (long) farewell to the north inner city, I’m focusing on the coffee shops. And trying to avoid the franchise ones.

In Cahoots is found a couple of doors away from the wonderful Chapters book store on Parnell street. It opens until around 8 o’clock most days, and has a friendly [...]

One Hundred Mornings – A Review

Set in a world upended by a complete breakdown of society, two couples hide out in a lakeside cabin hoping to survive the crisis. As resources run low and the external threats increase, they forge an uneasy alliance with their self-sufficient hippie neighbour. With no news from the outside world they don’t know how long [...]

Farewell to north inner city Dublin – Part 2: The Restaurants

For part 2 of my farewell to the north inner city, I’m going to focus on the restaurants (Part 3 will be the coffee shops). As with part one, I’ll only be focusing on on places I actually visited, so you won’t see a review of Chapter One here, as I’m not a multi [...]

Farewell to north inner city Dublin – Part 1, The Pubs

I’ve recently moved from north inner city Dublin after living there for 3 years, and since it’s an area which I think receives an unfair amount of bad press (no, I don’t have any bullet holes); I thought I’d share with you some of the places I’ve enjoyed there over the last few years.
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CSI: The Experience

Last Sunday the weather in Dublin was a little gloomy, so my wife and I decided to visit CSI: The Experience , in the Ambassador Theatre on O’Connell Street. We were both big fans of the original CSI TV series when it aired a few years ago (up until the constant repeats & spin offs [...]

Coldplay, Phoenix Park 2009, a pleasant evening of hygienic rock

Let me first freely admit that I’m not a huge Coldplay fan. I enjoyed A Rush of Blood to the Head when it was released in 2002 but never really continued listening after that. However a friend of mine was kind enough to offer me a free ticket to their Dublin concert, so along with [...]

F**k Yeah Tumblelogs!

This particular flavour of single theme tumblelog is hugely popular on tumblelogging service tumblr and while I must admit the sheer abundance of them can get a little irritating, if you find one on a subject you like, you’ve hit the jackpot (F**k Yeah Zooey anyone?).
So let’s take a look at some of [...]

Tumblelogs, blog a stream of consciousness

Hello there, my name is Dan and I’m a big fan of tumblelogging. In fact, I run five tumblelogs without any negative impact on my social life (honest). One of my tumblelogs even landed me a book deal, but I’ll tell you that story another time.
I’m here today to give you an [...]