The Tara Campaigns organised on the 24th of August 2008, a ‘Feis Teamhar’ : A ‘Turn at Tara’
to highlight the ongoing destruction of the Tara Complex by the Irish Government. The Feis was
addressed by Pulitzer prize winner Paul Muldoon and Poet Laureate Seamus Heaney .
The event was organised in the open air of the [...]

Paddy Doyle’s hilarious photobio as YouTube video I expect this one to become viral. Be sure to Digg it! (You can digg this post with the Share This button below, if you like!)
How to properly embed a YouTube video
- with author’s warning.
Aurora Concept Video - a glimpse at the near future on your [...]

Asked to devise a new area for the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Festival of World Cultures , Dominic Campbell and Jean Connolly have created “Port Whoopee!”, which includes the Diwan of Mint Tea and Poetry.
Yours truly will be among those contributing.
The Diwan of Mint Tea and Poetry takes place in a [...]

I’ve been meaning to put up some Irish literary links for some time.
The Cat Flap
I’m no objectivist (I think!) but I really enjoyed
Peter Sirr’s review of The Poems of Charles Reznikoff, 1918 – 1975, and while I could take or leave some of the poems quoted, I thought this was marvellous. [...]

In case you didn’t know, that’s ‘owned’ in Leetspeak.
What the hell is Leetspeak?
Glad you asked
You were probably probably familiar with it if you’re a gamer. I”m not, so I looked it up as I was continually coming across it on sites like Gizmodo.
Definitions of pwned on the Web:

* Pwn is [...]

1936 Nazi Color Film-Berlin in the Year of the Olympic Games
Nazi propaganda complete color film from 1936
‘Fakeproof’ e-passport is cloned in minutes
New microchipped passports designed to be foolproof against identity theft can be cloned and manipulated in minutes and accepted as genuine by the computer software recommended for use at international airports.
- The Times of [...]

The Irish Times story of how the quick thinking of an Irish air traffic controller talked and texted down a crippled aircraft via mobile phone has made it to the pages of Slashdot and Gizmodo
This is the full Irish times story