Yes, I know,the eyes just glaze over when people bang on about what we are doing to the earth. Every now and again one should lighten up, as Al Gore wisely did in If Al Gore Had Been President
*update: Google appears to have removed this video*
And then…
Al Gore’s Speech in NYU advocating replacement of [...]

Like the good citizen you are, you submit to fingerprinting at airports because fingerprints are unique to you and they prove who you are and you are not, of course, a terrorist.
Er… It’s not quite that simple. Or maybe it is horrifyingly simple.
Mythbusters beat Fingerprint Security System

Bernie Goldbach over at Irish Eyes has a powerful piece about Michael McDowell’s Definition of Security, and how it panders to prejudice about migrant workers.
What gets me about such prejudice in Ireland, and some of it is pretty scary, is that at least some of those who harbour it actually endured it themselves when [...]

I gave away my (16 year old) TV recently.
Just about the same time, Marc Coleman had a great piece in the Irish Times about the little economic bites taken out of us by
…by a whole zoo of parasites. Each one hopes the bite they take will go unnoticed. Each one on its own does [...]

Elaine Keogh in The Irish Times (subscription) alerts us to performances of two plays by Samuel Beckett inside the Fourknocks megalithic tomb in Co Meath, which, like Newgrange and other tombs in the area, is 5,000 years old.
“Stones, Bones and Beckett” will feature A Piece of Monologue and Breath, directed by Louise Kennedy, and [...]