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Om nom nom! The Irish Blog Awards 2010

Screw the Oscars and the Golden Globes, the IFTAs and the Meteors; for Irish bloggers, there truly is only one awards night – for Irish bloggers, there is no better night out than the Irish Blog Awards.
It’s the one night of the year where online meets offline, where the real and the fantasy collide in [...]

Online video presents The Streamy Awards

Yesterday saw the release of the nominees for the second annual Streamys. For those of you unfamiliar with the awards they celebrate the best in online television and videos.

Last year saw some high profile shows, such as personal fave Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, awarded for their greatness and this year is no different. If for [...]

Julian Gough’s State of Irish Literature Address 2010

Professional pig-interferer Julian Gough has a rather wonderful roundup of the state of Irish Literature as he sees it from his ivory squat in Berlin. The Blog O’Sphere gets mentioned as literature after a fashion, and Sweary of this parish is acknowledged for her zeitgeisty social experiment in Gort . Well worth [...]

Clusters of connection: Facebook in the USA visualised

Pete Warden has an interesting visualisation of Facebook data he’s scraped and analysed. Allowing for the limitations of the publicly available data he’s crunched, it’s still fascinating to see how localised supposedly borderless networks can be.
Via Gigaom .

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Gabe and Max have an Irish son, wants TO DO, business.

UPDATE: YouTube took the videos down. Oh well.

Then, the explanation of how YOU CAN, get rich. Too.

It must be a Gabe and Max franchise.

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@VodafoneUK seeks weekend company, new job.

Whoops. @VodafoneUK is going to be in the news for all the wrong reasons tomorrow. Stupid thing to say anyway, but probably the end of Twitter guy’s pay packet.
Via A Hitchiker’s Guide .

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Warp Factor PML.

(Cross-posted from Caricatures Ireland ). I LOVE this strip from Eoin Ryan’s Space Avalanche . Check out the previous toons too!
Via Paddy Brown .

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You need to see…Pigeon Impossible

Pigeon Impossible is a short animated film from director Lucas Martell, who wrote, directed and produced, a labour of love that took almost 5 years to complete. What this has resulted in a remarkable little film, as funny as it is visually adept this shows a new filmmaker with a remarkable flair for the medium.
Basically [...]

Meta Cat

(Via Jezebel , post title suggested by Demure Lemur ).
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Wikibombing

Wikipedia’s fundraising drive seems to have come to an end, but it was juvenile giggles while it lasted. They eventually cottoned on and reverted to the generic James Wales appeal.

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Tried Omegle? Or, the obnoxiousness of strangers

Omegle is a completely pointless, and therefore hugely entertaining, site where you can chat to pimply teenagers who can barely string a sentence together. Feel like Twitter is sapping all your time? Why not tell a complete stranger that you’d like to forcibly inject his opinions into his rectum by way of a swift [...]

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 [...]

Chat and IM: A guide to what’s out there.

So we all like the chat, who doesn’t, but how do you chat?
If you’re like a lot of people who have been on the internet for a long time you use the Standard chat Clients, the one’s that have been around for years.
Like these:
 

Windows Live Messenger: AKA : MSN
MSN as many people still call it [...]

Phone Wars: Google’s Nexus One

In a somewhat odd but not entirely unexpected move internet search giant Google has unveiled their very own smart phone. Titled the Google Nexus One it is set to compete firmly with Apple’s all-conquering iPhone. The Nexus runs on Google’s own open-source Android software, the operating system of choice for a number of current big-name [...]

Chillax – A Glorious Dawn

Its the Christmas doldrums and many of you will want to keep your brain in neutral for a little longer, so how about a little chill-out music that might teach you something.
For example, here is

Riverdance me eye, this is how you irish dance!

I haven’t seen it before. At SeaWorld San Diego, Clyde and an award-winning Irish dancer go flipper to toe in one of the most unusual yet hilarious dance contests for the 2007 St. Patrick’s Day.

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The National Leprechaun Museum, opening in Dublin March 2010

This is one of those occasions when the website address may be pretty much all you need to see:

http://www.leprechaunmuseum.ie
Among the myriad of questions I have is: Why has this never been done before?

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News about the 2010 Irish Blog Awards

I’m sure you were only dying to know…
As per the official blog:

Just to let you know a few things about the 2010 Blog Awards:

They will be in Galway
We are looking at a March date
Nominations will be opening on the first week of January for 2 weeks
There are going to be new [...]

Feeling Nostalgic for The Noughties?

Remember when we didn’t know who Susan Boyle was?  Or when ‘Ground Zero” was just “the surface directly above or below the point at which a nuclear explosion takes place”?  When we didn’t know what a carbon footprint was and bailouts were strictly reserved for those behind bars? When only farmers drove Four-wheel [...]

Name the movies – for the sincere movie nerds

Give this a go.

An easy one, yes? Fancy giving some others a go?

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