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Zig & Zag: The Animated Series? Apparently yes. Lavishly...

Wed, 02 May 2012 18:06:52 +0100

Zig & Zag: The Animated Series? Apparently yes.

Lavishly animated in vibrant 2D, the cartoon revolves around the adventures of the alien odd couple as they struggle to fit in with life on earth – following Zag’s unending quest for glory and his brother Zig’s attempts to use his tiny but overactive brain to help out.

(via Will Knot on Google Plus)

The third Dark Knight Rises trailer dropped this morning. Yeah,...

Tue, 01 May 2012 19:21:11 +0100

The third Dark Knight Rises trailer dropped this morning. Yeah, its looking like a good summer of hero movies.

Enderman in Bishop Lucey Park, Cork

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:21:22 +0100

Enderman in Bishop Lucey Park, Cork

Minecraft flowers in Bishop Lucey Park, Cork

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:40:21 +0100

Minecraft flowers in Bishop Lucey Park, Cork

Cow Up A Tree (accompanied by Pig) in Emmet Place, Cork

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:24:47 +0100

Cow Up A Tree (accompanied by Pig) in Emmet Place, Cork

laughingsquid: 8-bit Version of Google Maps

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 19:58:38 +0100

laughingsquid:

8-bit Version of Google Maps

twistedlildoodles: The Truth about St. Patrick. (Happy St....

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:47:25 +0000

twistedlildoodles:

The Truth about St. Patrick. (Happy St. Patrick’s Day to you from Ireland.)
Making this shit authentic right here. x

Her friends call her “Spud”. (via Camel)

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:01:49 +0000

Her friends call her “Spud”.

(via Camel)

twistedlildoodles: The truth about penguins.

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 00:54:21 +0000

twistedlildoodles:

The truth about penguins.

laughterkey: YES

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 22:03:53 +0000

laughterkey:

YES

"Mr Sherlock “urged all interested parties to focus now on making Ireland a model of..."

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:47:27 +0000

“Mr Sherlock “urged all interested parties to focus now on making Ireland a model of international best practice for innovation, and ensuring that our copyright laws facilitate the achievement of this goal.””

- Sherlock signs “Irish SOPA” into law.

Two and a half minutes from Pixar’s next movie,...

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:40:05 +0000

Two and a half minutes from Pixar’s next movie, Brave.

This looks like its going to be great.

Bummer: Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos Weren't, and It Was the Cable Guy's Fault

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:20:05 +0000

Bummer: Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos Weren't, and It Was the Cable Guy's Fault:

infoneer-pulse:

The blame lies with a fiber-optic cable used to connect a GPS receiver, which corrects the timing of the neutrinos’ flight, and a computer card that reads the receiver. As part of the efforts to replicate the results, a team member apparently tightened the connection and then measured the length of time it took the timing data to travel down the fiber. The data showed up, you guessed it, 60 nanoseconds earlier than assumed.

» via Popular Science

BBC News taken out of context. Sublime.

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:40:05 +0000

BBC News taken out of context.

Sublime.

Romathics

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:40:57 +0000

Romathics

Meteor and eMobile customer data stolen Eircom has revealed...

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:38:51 +0000

Meteor and eMobile customer data stolen

Eircom has revealed that the personal details of 6,845 eMobile and Meteor customers and 686 Meteor staff were contained on three of its laptops that were stolen.

The bank account details of 550 customers may also be at risk.

Although Eircom has an encryption policy for its laptops, it is understood none of the three stolen were encrypted.

"The internet seems to ignore legislation until somebody tries to take something away from us…..."

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:28:21 +0000

“

The internet seems to ignore legislation until somebody tries to take something away from us… then we carefully defend that one thing and never counter-attack. Then the other side says, “OK, compromise,” and gets half of what they want. That’s not the way to win… that’s the way to see a steady and continuous erosion of rights online.

The solution is to start lobbying for our own laws. It’s time to go on the offensive if we want to preserve what we’ve got. Let’s force the RIAA and MPAA to use up all their political clout just protecting what they have. Here are some ideas we should be pushing for:

* Elimination of software patents
* Legal fees paid by the loser in patent cases; non-practicing entities must post bond before they can file fishing expedition lawsuits
* Roll back length of copyright protection to the minimum necessary “to promote the useful arts.” Maybe 10 years?
* Create a legal doctrine that merely linking is protected free speech
* And ponies. We want ponies. We don’t have to get all this stuff. We merely have to tie them up fighting it, and re-center the “compromise” position.

”

- Joel Spolsky on Google+ bringing back an oft suggested but seemingly never implemented idea.

TJ McIntyre: Ireland's SOPA - An FAQ

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:12:32 +0000

TJ McIntyre: Ireland's SOPA - An FAQ:

What’s this all about?

Long story short: the Irish government plans, before the end of January, to bring in a law which would allow Irish courts to block access to websites accused of infringing copyright (and possibly do other things as well).

Isn’t that a short time for parliament to examine it?

The Irish parliament won’t have a chance to debate it before it’s passed. The law is to be brought in by a statutory instrument, something which requires only the stroke of a minister’s pen.

IT Law in Ireland: Adrian Weckler confims that "Ireland's SOPA" will be vague and open-ended

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:07:50 +0000

IT Law in Ireland: Adrian Weckler confims that "Ireland's SOPA" will be vague and open-ended:

The clear implication from his interview with Sean Sherlock is that the proposed measures will be lacking in any real detail, leaving it entirely up to the judges as to what types of blocking might emerge. (Possibly going beyond web blocking to also target hosting and other services.)

This is very worrying. As bad as SOPA And PIPA are, at the very least you could say that they had a clearly defined punishment should a website or business be found to be in contradiction to them. Sherlock has no such plan, instead wanting to wait and get a test case to measure the proportionality of a judges response against.

rten: “The Bark Side” Imperial March barked by a dog choire

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:03:40 +0000

rten:

“The Bark Side” Imperial March barked by a dog choire