America’s Army is a propoganda tool that was launched by the U.S. government to help with recruitment – a realistic first person shooter computer game. Released in 2002, it is still popular today, with several thousand people playing it at any given time. DeLappe has made it his mission to counter the PR to some [...]
Dvorak writes about another podcasting lecturer, this one from Bradford University in England: Students will ask questions about lectures via text message, which will be answered in Dr Ashraf’s blog. The lecturer has also been putting his appointment times online so students can check if he is available or book a meeting without coming into [...]
Five years since I walked in through that big old stone building with the ogham stones and the statue of the ringwraiths. Hopefully I won’t have to be back for any repeats in the autumn, but who cares… I’m going to go to sleep now and when I wake up I WILL BE FREE. Fishing… [...]
Around 8% of the Irish male population has some form of colour blindness. Vischeck allows you to view webpages and images as they would appear to someone who is colour blind. Have a look at Google, for example: Deuteranope (a form of red/green color deficit): Tritanope (a blue/yellow deficit – very rare): Theres some interesting [...]
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One of Andy Warhol’s famous soup can paintings “Small Torn Campbell’s Soup Can (Pepper Pot)” sold for $11.7 million at Christie’s Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Sale in New York. I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. I’m afraid that this is starting to look [...]
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I got the Sunday Tribune today, and was pleased to be greeted by the broadband coverage map made by Damien Mulley and John Handelaar. There it is in big bold font: “Gaping holes in Irish internet”: Mulley 1 – 0 Eircom. Noel Dempsey’s spokesman admirably exhibits the art of saying nothing but saying everything, in [...]
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For anyone who doesn’t usually listen to Cork’s 96fm – tomorrow is a good day to tune in. Even the rest of ye who are not in Cork would do well to listen in online, because the Celebrity Voices competition is there for the taking. Each word “Corks” “Perfect” “Music” “Mix” “96″ “FM” is spoken [...]
Last night I spent some time laughing at the Yahoo article exposing the latest wave of terrorist activities: converting popular computer games as a tool for propaganda and training of recruits. As bad as it was, it gets worse. Dvorak got the story this morning, where julieb pointed out that the source which was the [...]
I have a bone to pick with you. You’re losing me sleep. I’m holding you directly responsible for my current situation, one of domestic anguish. Because of the relentless gunshots and sirens, I stayed up until midnight frantically drilling rawlplugs, filling cracks, boarding up the back windows with sheet steel. I then lay awake stewing [...]
I knew the interviews would be critical in exposing the true character of the candidates, but I didn’t expect it to be so dramatic. It has been clear from the start that Paul was an asshole, but thought he would have enough cop to play the game and make himself look good. To say he [...]