Category Archives: General

ILUG tip of the day from Padraig Brady. Good shell stuff here!

The Straight Dope: Why do we twitch while falling asleep?

Interesting sites appear when you search: for George W. Bush

SatireWire | Zimbabwe Changes Name to AAA Zimbabwe

Who the hell is Ellen Feiss? Sometimes that gap between us called the Atlantic is just too much for some news, thankfully.

Have you been following the terrible news from Soham in the UK? Dave expounds on a regular basis about how great webloggers are at highlighting issues, (and they are, look at 9/11 coverage, camworld and Dave’s site was where I went looking for info!) but it breaks down when there’s no webloggers around, so the traditional media will stay hold sway over what we think and how we perceive the world at large. There’s a lot more of them than us, and they have an interest in keeping a story alive, where we might get bored and immune to it and move on. Such is life.

da Proclamation of the People’s Republic of Cork, well, Cork is the REAL capital of Ireland! Thanks Pronnsias for mailing this very important document to me!

Twenty Things We’ve Learned Since 9/11, scary stuff. It still beggars belief that Bush ever got elected.

Let Users Control Font Size has sparked some responses, summarised by Mark but I looked at the Citydesk discussion on this. When you zoom into this page in Galeon/Mozilla (in Linux), both types of text zoom in, and in fact, contrary to what IE does, the absolute pixel sized text zoomed better than the relative font size.

Heard on IRC:
<Niall> What were the archers firing ?
<valen> rubber tipped arrows. So funny to hear the ‘ping’ as one hits a guy’s pothelm from 200 meters, and then the ‘thunk’ as the poor stunned guy drops to his knees.
<Niall> Yeah – hilarious 🙂

Close escape on train tracks – a drunk just escaped being squashed by a speeding train! Includes a frightening CCTV picture!