Some helpful lads in Queen Mary’s University in London have come up with a clever piece of software which “de-Vuvuzelates” your telly signal, rendering impotent that irritating drone which accompanies all world cup matches. In case you’ve managed to somehow avoid all the excitement, the drone is caused by an incredibly loud and irrating plastic [...]
By admin | August 27, 2009
John Gibbons, columnist with the Irish Times, has just launched www.EveryLittleHelps.ie on the back of his article in the Irish Times highlighting what many see as another cynical move by the scarey giant that is Tesco. Tesco has become an absolute global monolith, but not just in terms of supermarkets. Few realise fully the power which [...]
By admin | August 27, 2009
Claire Forshaw of Manchester has changed her name by deed poll to Princess-Rainbow.com, in the process become the first person ever to change his/her name to a website. Claire, 24, decided to change her name when she was drunk one night and because “it would be a laugh and it only costs a tenner”. She plans to [...]
By admin | August 10, 2009
“Facebook performed an illegal operation and should be shut down” said Bill Gates speaking on a recent tour to India. Bill signed up and promptly got 10,000 requests to be his “friend”, which he admits overwhelmed him. He especially found the process of reviewing new friend requests too arduous. I wonder how far he got? [...]
By admin | August 6, 2009
A startling statistic from Common Sense Media. Other “Media Mythbusters” published include: 80% of TV commercials are for fast food, candy, cereal and toys. Kids see more than a quarter of a million commercials aimed at their appearance by age 17, with the result that The number one wish for girls ages 11 to 17 [...]
By admin | August 3, 2009
It is estimated that 1.5 exabytes (1.5 x 10^18) of unique new information will be generated worldwide this year. That’s estimated to be more than in the previous 5,000 years. ..according to Glimpse of the Future by Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod.
Some bitch’n’moan about the hoops one has to jump through to register a .ie domain. The upside to it, however, is that if you really want a domain, it’s probably still available for you to register – unlike, say, .com or .net domains which have just about every name under the sun already snapped up. [...]
An enlightening post from www.copyblogger.com: This weekend, my mother-in-law asked me to enter a life of crime. Not in the real world, of course – she’d like the father of her grandkids to remain jail-free. No, instead she invited me to play that Mafia game that’s so popular on Facebook. Not interested in the game, [...]
Mr Doob does it again! Check out http://mrdoob.com/projects/chromeexperiments/depth_of_field/ to see an amazing 3D graphic demo, all done using Javascript. This means that there are no big fat graphics servers in the background, it’s all done and calculated and displayed within your browser. Responds to mouse movement too. Sometimes seems to have problems displaying in IE7 [...]