Damien Mulley

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?

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.

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.

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

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