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Drug Test Dail Eireann – Stick the button on your blog

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

Drug Test the Dail Get your button for your blog now if you want to get your TDs and Senators to submit themselves to a drugs test. Buttons in many sizes available from Bifsniff.com. The EPS source is also available in case anyone wants to make stickers and t-shirts.

Too many BarCamps spoil the broth?

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

Cork. May

Dublin. When?

Galway. July 07/07/07

Ideally I’ve love to see BarCamps move away from just general tech and focus on a specific topic. Such as BarCamp Bank:

BarCampBank is a community of people interested in disruptive innovations in the world of banking and finance

Rashomon available for free

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

Via We Make Money Not Art:

Rashomon is out of copyright so you can watch it online:

Shouldersurf with me

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

Seems there’s some mini-competition to add as many subscriptions as you can to your feed before the awards.

Don’t forget you can get email subscriptions or RSS/feed subscriptions to this blog too. This should give you a glimpse into my thoughts and what I am looking at. But to expand on that you can always view my public bookmarks here and you can view my LinkedIN (Networking) profile here.

Here too is the feed for the Irish Blog Awards.

Fluffy Links – February 6th 2007

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

Gamma Goblin found a Garda fetish site. Haha!

Via Iain Dale is news that the Tories will scrap ID Cards, if elected. But replace with what?

Seems many French are moving out of France to enjoy better working and living conditions elsewhere.

Squirrels! WTF.

Telecommuting isn’t working in our highly connected world because we are too connected. Very good points I had not considered. We interact with more and more people every year thanks to tech so it makes sense that a lot of the work we do now is maintaining these relationships.

Origami remote control. Cute but a bitch to click through channels quickly, I bet.

And yet another web project from Rob.

Treasa recommends Gareth Pearson.

Gay B&B owners in the UK are against new anti-discrimination laws which would oblige them to offer their rooms to straight couples. Oh my. Reminds me of the gay club in Cork that turns you away for being straight or looking straight. I know a girl that had to “dress more lesbian” if she was to get in. Charming.

Ice ice baby. Scary ice.

Stephen Colbert – The Most Poetic Fucking Thing I’ve Ever Heard

Bye Bye Bodega :(

Monday, February 5th, 2007

As Tom notes, the Bodega is closing. This Friday in fact. I really loved that bar. Anyone interested in going in there on Thu or Friday evening for one last hurrah and to thank the staff. Or most of them anyway. With a few exceptions the staff in there are wonderfully helpful and friendly and quite chatty. You feel welcome in the place unlike so many other places these days. What’s worse is that they’re turning it into a clothes store or something. Jesus. More here on Boards.ie too. Also more here and here.

Anyway, who fancies calling in and having a pint there to say goodbye?

Which TDs are on drugs? Sign a petition to find out

Monday, February 5th, 2007

Drug test your TD. Enda Kenny wants to drug test schoolkids. Enda should be tested too and all the rest. I’d love to know what kind of weed some Ministers seem to be smoking.

Update: John in the comments points to what happened in Italy.

Fluffy Links – February 5th 2007

Monday, February 5th, 2007

John Handelaar points to some old ads for audio tapes. Tapes!

Nice to see Walter get a mention again
. Rubbing shoulders with the best photo editing apps out there.

Nailing jelly to a wall. Can’t be done, I’m betting it can if thought through. Ideally this should have been a video on YouTube.

Rob has yet another blog.

The High Stool gives good coverage to Duke Special.

Fucking with parking meters using well-placed stickers.

William Gibson’s new book is called Spook Country.

Here is Duke on Jools Holland:

Trolling Mac fans:

Doctor Who and the Dalek where the Dalek is uttering dialog from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

IDAFYA 3 – Roam4Free.ie – Update my friends

Sunday, February 4th, 2007

Part 3 of “I didn’t ask for your f… advice”. Roam4Free recently launched their roaming pre-paid sim card. The idea is that receiving calls and making calls will be cheap with this sim. The main drawbacks for the service are that people will have to ring an Estonian mobile number to contact you and the same goes for texts. I may be wrong, but I don’t see anywhere on the site that says you can update your friends with your new number. A simple service to add then would be to upload an address book and have a simple “Update my friends” option which would ask for some dates and numbers and you could sent texts out to all your friends, colleagues and clients with a text message like the following:

Hi Everyone,
This is Pat Phelan, this is my number while I’m traveling. If you want to contact me from February 12th to February 23rd or anytime I’m away then use this number.

Blunt Cogs – Whatever you want lads

Sunday, February 4th, 2007

Irish Blog Awards jumps shark when mentioned in a comic strip:

I’ve just subscribed to them. You should too!