Archive for September, 2013

Fluffy Links – Sunday September 29th 2013

Sunday, September 29th, 2013

Very busy month or so, slow on doing the updates.

Via Eoin. Virgin Mary statues mixed with pop culture.

iBeacons. This is going to be a very interesting area.

In praise of slow design.

Privacy on the Internet. Hah.

Google logging and storing all your WiFi passwords. Luckily they don’t work with the NSA or anything.

Writing your villain.

1000 Startups in France. Twice as good as U.S.?

Paula Meehan, Ireland Professor of Poetry, a podcast with her. And here’s her poem “Home”.

Coke – Karl Parkinson

Coke Poem by Karl Parkinson from LOQ on Vimeo.

Fluffy Links – Friday September 13th 2013

Friday, September 13th, 2013

Remember Get Your War On? No? Dick. Go and unmisremember it. Anyway, they’re doing new videos about the NSA.

AOL Dublin game hackathon on September 28th.

Want to invest in Trouble Brewing?

Now this is how you teach history to kids.

This piece on how Ronaldo’s game was developed and improved can teach us all a thing or two about personal or business development.

The Apple sensor band is on the way, the chip is already made and will be in the iPhone 5s.

“Sees creative destruction as natural, necessary, and as their vocation” Hi, I’m Damien.

William Gibson fans, a Tessier Ashpool t-shirt.

Rip it up and start again

Fluffy Links – Wednesday September 11th 2013

Wednesday, September 11th, 2013

Omit needles swords. In mug format.

Happy 4th birthday this week to the amazing archive that is Irish Election Literature.

The Q Camera. All social, all the time.

Don’t stop in your startup until you learn. Nice advice.

Designly is out and prices unveiled.

Storyful plugin to save hours of not-very-fun searching in social media.

Is the baby born yet? App for that, naturally.

Lobbying and tobacco. Ireland.

Testing in Google. Course there’s a blog for that.

Creative people share what creativity is about.

RuPaul, Henry Rollins. Awesome inflective stuff.

Fluffy Links – Monday September 2nd 2013

Monday, September 2nd, 2013

Lovely tool made by @Bon allowing you to do nice easy embeds of YouTube videos or Tweets on your WordPress blog.

Wu-Tang Christmas jumper. I want but it won’t arrive before Christmas. Ah c’mon.

How Twitter is used in Ireland.

Beautiful Javascript graphing tool.

The march of social media killing letter writing. In 1871.

Anyone bought a Little Printer?

Trump University. Scamtastic.

Petition to name hurricanes after climate deniers. Yes yes yes.

Superb Cork Opera House lineup for Winter. Patrick McCabe original too!

I love this. This fella just went and bought the rights to the Ireland matches so he could see them and now doing distribution deals.

Another nice use of Vine.