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Monthly Archives: July 2007

This is not Bowling, this is Nam.

Sunday, July 29, 2007

I’m out in Vietnam for the week… in Saigon / Ho Chi Minh City at the moment, and will probably be heading up to Hanoi and Sapa next weekend. I visited the Cu Chi tunnels today; it was simply unbelievable. The network of cramped underground tunnels was started in 1948 when the Vietnamese [...]

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Glass Art by Xia Xiaowan

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

I’ve spent some today time browsing the website that posted about Tilt Scream Pong: Future Feeder. It’s a bit like BoingBoing but without all the Steampunk. There’s lots of good stuff there… one item that I thought was particularly interesting is this post about a Chinese artist called Xia Xiaowan and his peculiar [...]

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Tilt Scream Pong

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Here is another reason why my MacBook Pro is better than your Thinkpad.

The gameplay revolves around two core principles:

Tilt your macbook from side to side to move paddle
Scream at your macbook to increase paddle size

This has to be the greatest invention since the seed drill, and it is open source.

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A Song of Ice and Fire – the Ideal Cast

Saturday, July 21, 2007

A few months ago (here), I mentioned the fact that HBO might be making a TV series of George R. R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire”. This fan has matched each character with the actor he would like to see in the role (good call on the clerk from ER as the [...]

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Rigging the Seanad

Saturday, July 21, 2007

I had heard bits and pieces about somebody selling a vote for the Irish senate on eBay, and was surprised to see the coverage that it got in the Irish Times today.
Dan was disgusted:
I recognise that for a great portion of people the Seanad and all who sail in it are something of a joke, [...]

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Cork Sign Makers Strike Again

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

It has been over a year since thousands of French tourists caused havoc on our roads as they emerged like lemmings from Cork airport in their rental cars, driving on the wrong side of the road. As they spilled precariously onto the Kinsale Road dual carriagway, hurtling towards the oncoming traffic (which was already [...]

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