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Antique Vampire Hunting Kits

I would get one of these if I had a few thousand quid to spare (via Boing Boing): This box contains the items considered necessary for the protection of persons who travel into certain little known countries in Easter Europe where the populace are plagued with a peculiar manifestation of evil, known as Vampires… Professor [...]

A blog is a loaded gun… take the shot from the weapon

“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.” Announcing the blogger code of conduct, courtesy of Tim O’Reilly from O’Reilly Media (those computer books with an animal on the cover). The media has latched onto this story like never before – it made the front page of the [...]

Merged Animals

Here (via bch).

Driving in Bolivia

I got this powerpoint presentation by email – a series of photographs depicting some treacherous mountain roads in Bolivia.

The Shins – Phantom Limb

With their new album, Wincing the Night Away due to be launched at the end of January, The Shins have released a track, Phantom Limb, on mp3 for free download. You can get it here via the Subpop website.

A Second Life, A Soul Anew

According to last month’s Second Life census, over 1 million people have immersed themselves into the virtual online world. No cannibal bloodelves, no diseased scorpids, no dancing gnomes going “choo-choo”, and no backstabbing undead shamans as they exit Booty Bay tunnel – Second Lifers get their thrills from enacting mundane everyday activities on their computer [...]

The Electronic Voting Farce Continues

With the midterm elections in the US in full swing, all eyes (well… some eyes) are once again on the shambles of e-voting as it buckles and crashes – as expected. RTE mentions “problems with electronic voting machines in a number of states, including Ohio, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania and Florida”. I expect we’ll be [...]

Back on Broadband

No offence to my Irish Broadband 1meg which has done the web browsing job nicely, but I’m delighted to say that I have got my Eircom DSL installed – and it was relatively painless. Slightly disappointed that I’m only getting 128k upload on the 2meg/256k package, which means that I can’t use cl_maxpackets 125. Vincent, [...]

World of Warcraft Numa Numa

I was looking for the famous South Park episode, when I came across this Dragostea din Tei rendition: Ingenious.

A Farewell to Cork Street

At last I have escaped from the chaos of Dublin’s south inner city. No more will I be lulled to sleep by the constant sound of rockets being fired at some guy’s head. I knew the place was a zoo from day one, but, with Halloween approaching, the area really lives up to its local [...]