See more of my shots from this summer's Mike Watt gig on Flickr. #image
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Date: October 2011
See more of my shots from this summer's Mike Watt gig on Flickr. #image
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Turns out the manufacturing process is a massive pain in the arse. Also: I didn't realise it's been around since the 1960s. #link
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Makes sense to me. #link
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My personal favourite will always be 'Skeleton - Mrs Benoit' in Deadliest of the WWE. I daren't play it with the lights off. #link
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It's not so much 'editing' as 'we're throwing so much shit at you that you're too concerned about what's coming next to notice what just happened'. #link
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So now you know. #link
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So August flowed into September into October, and I have little to report. Such is life.
The highlights: David O’Doherty at Vicar Street / Ruins Alone at The Twisted Pepper / Dava Sobel at the Science Gallery / Dinner at the new Nando’s in town / Packing for Mars / Losing another few pounds to hit the 2 1/2 stone mark / Hearing ‘There’s a Ghost in My House’ on the radio / Getting deep into the new Murakami / Receiving an @reply from the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion.
The lowlights: Being sick for a week and missing Mike Watt + The Missingmen. Sure, I saw them over the summer, but still. Sad face.
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What they don't really get into here is that Irish cinema, as it is, is really about marketability and profitability. If worthy art is made, that's fine, but it's not the primary driver -- there's too much fear of taking a chance on something that won't find mass appeal. Which is a Bad Thing, in my estimation. #link
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Comedy writer Todd Levin on lessons learned working in the hothouse writers' room for Conan O'Brien's NBC shows. #link
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...but scroll down to the comments and things start getting insane. Only on the internet. #link
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Those wrinkles you get in the bath might be an evolutionary adaptation that allow for better gripping in wet conditions? Well I never. #link
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As in, 'if this then that'. Basically an easier-to-understand version of Yahoo! Pipes, taking something from one site (usually an RSS feed) and making it do something else more useful. The list of ready-made recipes is growing fast. #link
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A truly depressing story. If it's true what the AP story says, that they were reported by cabin crew, that makes it even worse. #link
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"They're patting us down now, my friends object, and they're confiscating our contact-lens fluid. They're forcing us to travel with tiny tubes of toothpaste and moving us to wear loafers when usually we'd prefer lace-ups ... I listen to their grousing and think that the one thing the 9/11 attacks have achieved, for those of us who spend too much time in airports, is to make suspicion universal; fear and discomfort are equal-opportunity employers now." #link
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In reference to conflicts of interest and the recent TechCrunch saga. #link
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All you need is an LED display, an Arduino board, a PS/2 port and keyboard, and a little creativity. #link
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Bobbie Johnson doesn't like the term '3D printer', and neither does Tom Armitage. Both are correct that it doesn't reflect what such machines actually do. Bobbie suggests a few alternatives, like 'rep'. I prefer the unshortened 'replicate' myself; it already has some cultural cachet via Star Trek. #link
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It’s a big polling day next Thursday. Not only do we get to elect a new president (you can follow all the #aras11 shenanigans on Twitter), there’s also a by-election here in Dublin West (most notable for the sad fact that Barry Caesar Hunt — that tosser from The Apprentice — is in the running) as well as two constitutional referenda, on the pay of judges and inquiries by the Oireachtas, that have received virtually no significant media coverage in recent weeks. I mean, I read the news online every day and I only found out about them a week ago!
About that second referendum… I’m broadly in favour of the Oireachtas being allowed to conduct its own inquiries into matters of public interest, but this bit about ‘findings which affect a person’s good name’ has me concerned.
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At last a commentator who eschews the typical oh-woe-is-me nonsense and really understands the "endless anxiety" of jobhunting. #link
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Naming and shaming companies listing jobs under the JobBridge internship scheme that they should be paying people for. #link
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Very interesting to see the differences. #link
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Adding Markdown functionality to the right-click menu in OS X. #link
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What a brilliant resource! #link
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With everyone gushing over the new Kindles, Tim Carmody's the only one who noticed that for the most part, they're US-only (particularly the Fire, which matters diddly-squat to anyone who can't access Amazon's streaming media). #link
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Analysis of the recent full release of unredacted cables, in what seems to have been a spiteful fit over a dispute with The Guardian. #link
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A free and open source HTML5 video player. Filing this for future reference. #link
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"Sass is a meta-language on top of CSS that’s used to describe the style of a document cleanly and structurally, with more power than flat CSS allows." #link
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Neat enough on its own. But then someone else went and fed those story graphs into Google Correlate. I wonder what Vonnegut would've made of that, being the cyber-luddite he was. #link
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Who does Chaney remind you of, if not a post-colonial African dictator? His name should be as maligned as Hitler's. Yes, I went there. #link
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To help us avoid permanent nerve damage, it seems. Now I'm kinda freaked out. #link
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The Screen is really becoming the kind of sassy rep house that Dublin badly needs (the IFI is great, but come on, it's quite fuddy) and this scheme is a fantastic idea. I'd contribute myself but I'm completely paralysed by choice. #link
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'We demand a great deal from our objects: that they be functional, that they be meaningful. And yet they also stand apart from us; like creatures at the edge of a clearing, they peer off elsewhere in feral disregard.' I think the Japanese have a better understanding of objects in this regard (cf Matt Webb muses on tsukumogami). #link
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Neutrinos in faster-than-light shocker: "We want just to be helped by the community in understanding our crazy result -- because it is crazy." That's an understatement. #link
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Reminds me of the self-destruct countdown at the end of Predator. I guarantee you someone's already working on a watch with a QR display right now. #link
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