Displaced
Last time we came back to Ireland, we ran into an Italian friend in the Airport in Rome as she was saying goodbye to her boyfriend. This made us feel very Roman.
On the flight home today, I met an childhood neighbour from Dublin. He was the chief attendant on my flight back. This made [...]
Weekly Schadenfreude
Teenager robbed of computer game
A teenager was kicked, punched and robbed of a computer game which he had bought only moments after its release.
The 18-year-old and his friend had bought Grand Theft Auto IV from a Lancashire video shop after its release at midnight.
Stab attack at Grand Theft queue
A man was stabbed in front [...]
Happy Grand Theft Auto 4 Day
Happy GTA4 Day everyone!
Breaking news!
Researchers Discover Massive Asshole In Blogosphere.
Trailer for “Blindness”
I’ve been looking forward to the movie of “Blindness” for a while now, and the new trailer looks terrific. Shame the film isn’t due for release until September.
Drunk Darth Vader’s Jedi assault
BBC News - Drunk Darth Vader’s Jedi assault. Favourite line: Hughes, who was drunk and dressed in a black bin bag, shouted “Darth Vader!”
BLDGBLOG: Hotels in the Afterlife
Maybe it’s all this Call of Duty 4 I’ve been playing, but these photos of luxury hotels abandoned mid-construction look like a fantastic place for some real-life war games. Maybe some enterprising paintballer could come along and use them to recreate de_dust?
Ecto-1 from Ghostbusters has been restored
In honour of the upcoming Ghostbusters videogame, Ecto-1 has been restored to its original glory. This kind of of obsessiveness and attention to detail just blows me away.
Charlie Brooker’s favourite games
Over on the guardian’s website, everyone’s favourite acerbic tv critic, Charlie Brooker, gives us a list of his favourite videogames of all time - Part one and part two
The “Pyjama” look is so last year
According to catwalking.com, the “Pyjama” look is one of the ‘hot trends’ for this summer. I’d just like to point out that in my old stomping grounds of Stoneybatter in Dublin, the girls are already over this look and have taken to wearing - and I’m not joking here - whole duvets when going [...]
Wristcutters: A Love Story
Watching “Wriscutters: A Love Story“, I got wondering about what had happened to the ‘Livejournal movie.’ Around 2003-2005, every week there seemed to be some new quirky, independent movie that everyone was talking about on Livejournal. It became a rite of passage, a club you couldn’t join until you made a post about how [...]
Study says Apple Logo Stimulates the Brain
NPR is reporting on a study that says that being exposed to the Apple logo makes you more creative. I wonder what being exposed to the Linux penguin does to you?
