Looseville is done by a lad called Alan that lives in Cork. This is his blog. He was recently featured in the Indo. I like this comic he did.

Mucky boots and romance. Wicklow walks for singletons.

Thomas has a post on Online Methods for Online and Traditional Media

More sheer brilliance from Ze Frank.

Great great interview about packaging design.

Conor blogs about the Foodtalk programme. Foodies should tune in!

Nice offers from the Hilton Hotel chain. Cheers Sonya!

Kottke pointed this intro to 3,2,1 Contact. Wow, I am that old:

Tycho - The Daydream

James Foley is a UL student who dreams about working for Apple. He asked me to help out to try and get him an internship in Cupertino next year. I’m sure there are some that read this blog that might know someone that knows someone. So can you help?

So as you know at this stage, U.L makes a big deal about sending it’s students on work placement during their degrees. Most people doing my course (Business) get placement with local firms, some even venture as far as Dublin in search for work. But I really want to make use of this opportunity, I want to work somewhere relevant to what I want to do after college. I want to work for Apple, and have made it my number one priority this year to get an internship there starting in January of 2010.

Why Apple? It’s a company I have a genuine passion for, every computer I’ve had since I was a child has been a mac and I think that working for a company where culture and design are held in such high regard would make the early mornings and late nights all that much easier. There are probably people out there that are more qualified than me, that know more about the software and silicon that make computers work, but I honestly don’t think anyone else wants this as much as I do. I want to learn how to make great computers, how to write great applications and to help innovate and turn really cool ideas into really cool products.

So, can we help the guy? Be nice to see Irish people work in the Valley and *cough* get us contacts.

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You don’t need to be a blogger to avail. 25% off is a pretty damned fine discount.

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If it ain’t Cork, don’t fix it. Limerick is the blogging Capital of Ireland.

Digital Marketing roadshow in Dublin on the 29th. Free!

Bodies is coming to Dublin. Via Mr. P.

Gig of the year. Event of the year. Via ThrillPier.

Type Nuts. Type-themed & type-inspired iPhone & desktop wallpapers for typenuts.

The Daily Mail Headline generator. I love this one: “IS THE METRIC SYSTEM KILLING BRITAIN’S SWANS?”

Cool t-shirts and only £5 including delivery.

I do love his style.

Clever app. What should I read next?

Nintendo Wii is now a TV network of a sort.

The housing bubble hits Second Life too!

Recession. Hah.

Via Tom

71 Million views on YouTube. 71!

Chris Cornell and Pearl Jam - Hunger Strike

You can just feel the “Bring it on Garda mofos” attitude as he Mick presses the bell. Check out that pose:

And does he leg it far? No he does not! Here he is down the street, not even running that far. Bring it!

and if it wasn’t bad playing mindgames with the cop shop, he’s doing the same with the County Council. Not that they’d answer it. Not their job according to their union rep:

Best of luck to everyone taking part at the BTYS.

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Please note I get nothing out of this myself. Yes, I’m happy to do the same deal for other companies if I think it’s a worthwhile offer to the readers. If you want me to offer a discount to 1500 subscribers and another 1500 daily readers then it’s got to be worth the effort.

Fergal of the Tuppenceworth clan is on Turbridy on Thursday Talking Twitter. Suggestions or examples welcome.

How you can help TeenCamp.

Not seen this before. Blog from theunemployed.

Robert Byrne currently rowing across the
Atlantic in a world record attempt. That’s his blog about it.

David O’Keeffe’s blog. Talented bloke says the bio.

Liam, an Irish teen, blogs about religions.

Free “Silverlight Assault Course” in Cork on Sun 18th of Jan. Sign up!

Pixenate gets some updates! The Web2Ireland blog now using Facebook connect.

Miriam Lord’s Political Awards are hilarious.

I already have the t-shirt. No, really. I’m that bad. Objectified - the movie:

Ahh Father Jack. He’s apologising for all those nasty words I called YellowSnow.ie

Layla - Clapton and Knopfler

The next Open Coffee Cork is on Friday.

Alexia wrote a good post on Karlin Lillington’s 2009 “predictions”.

Interestingly Bernie also wrote a piece on it which was published a few hours after Alexia’s, though the timestamp on it says it was published 3 days ago.

Niall Harbison now has his own personal blog and has set himself a goal of 20k visitors a month. Nothing like putting pressure on yourself! G’luck Niall.

Beautiful. Claire has a super-cute business site now for taking pics of babies.

New blog, at least to me. Mark Coughlan.

And DJ has one that was new to me too.

Update. Nope, this is DJs.

Catholic Google. Ye what?

They’re needed. Micro-finances for apps.

Bye bye Donald Westlake. Parker rocked when it came to being badass.

Truth in advertising (Part II)

Revolting Cocks - Do ya think I’m sexy?

So what can you do?
1. Spread the word. Maybe blog about it? Get them some press. Email some teenagers you think would like to go along. (You know those clever ones who will end up being your boss in about 9 years.) Anyone know those CTYI kids? Tell em. Add it as a note to Facebook. Send it out via your LinkedIn Network. You’re getting the idea now so I’ll stop.
2. Sponsor them or find them some sponsors.
3. Loan them a projector or AV somethings or others.

Let’s get the kids sharing with the kids and educating each other. Or else I’ll send you a special thank you card: