January 2009
28 posts
Irish ISP agrees to disconnect repeat P2P users →
More sad news for the Internet in Ireland. Not only do we not get decent speeds or national coverage, we also pay through the arse, get our usage data stored for 2 years, and now they’re going to start kicking people off the internet. Way to go Eircom.
NationStates 2 →
Can you govern your nation through the various economic, political and diplomatic challenges that your growing population will create? And what about international relations with other nations in the world? Take 2 minutes to create your nation and see how it will evolve and what sort of political leader you’ll become!
Om Nom Nom Nom... (internet humour ahoy!) →
Xin Nian Kuai Le! (Happy Chinese New Year!)
The year is 4707, 4706, or 4646. It is year of the Ox (Ji Chou)! If there are celebrations on near you go have a look!
Xin Nian Kuai Le!
Student Specials
I really wish the student special didn’t taste the €4 it costs. Yuck
Improv Everywhere →
Is this the real art of Post-Postmodernism?
If Postmodernism is dead where do we turn? →
[Edit: I wonder if the whole problem with the argument made here is that it expects culture to be an object or artefact with an author. While I equally wonder about the ‘quality’ of currently cultural output such as Big Brother, surely that is because we look at it as an object. What is meaningful in these cultural products is the process of production, not the product. The aesthetic...
longest end-of-year list...wow →
“…attention is the scarce resource in the age of the Web”
– Huberman, Romero and Wu (2009)
Albums to look forward to in 2009
Trying to think of bands with new albums to look forward to on a dull and boring day
Midlake
Alela Diane
My Latest Novel
Grizzly Bear
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The National (thats a maybe)
This needs to stop... →
Seriously, WTF is going on? The last line tells it all.
“Information about what is happening inside Gaza is limited as Israel has barred foreign reporters from entering.”
Disc or Disk?? →
I was surprised to find a wikipedia entry when I wondered about this question. Can’t decide which to use though!
