Archive for January, 2008

I’m a “New Blog on the Block” at the Irish Blog Awards 2008!

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Irish Blog Awards I got a mention on the “New Blogs on the Block” section of the Irish Blog Awards… Cool! :)

Good luck to those that have been nominated! If anyone fancy’s a sneak peak before the nominations have been disclosed, apparently there’s leaks popping up already.

Cool Tune for a Friday… Fischerspooner’s – “Emerge”.

Friday, January 25th, 2008

My choice of a cool tune for the last Friday of each month.

I have decided to post my choice of a cool tune on the last Friday of each month.

Lets face it, Friday is the best day of the week, hands down. And as Friedrich Nietzsche once said, “without music, life would be a mistake.”

Enjoy!

Fischerspooner

This month’s cool tune is “Emerge” by Fischerspooner. The video is also quite cool. “Sounds Good, Looks Good… Feels Good Too”. True. As is their logo (above) and their website.

You don’t need to emerge from nothing
You don’t need to tear away

Watch the video on YouTube.

“Fischerspooner is Warren Fischer and Casey Spooner. (more…)

If we don’t like your Facebook profile you wont get into college and we won’t hire you! – Social networking for your personal life versus your professional life.

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

Facebook Increasingly there have been reports such as this about social networking websites, in particular Facebook. So by setting up an account with Facebook are you significantly decreasing your chances of getting that next job or inadvertently black-listing yourself from a college course? Not exactly… (more…)

RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta – An Taobh Tuathail, every weeknight 11pm – 1am

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

An Taobh Tuathail I wouldn’t usually be a huge radio listener, except for when I’m in a car or without an i-Pod, television, computer, Internet connection… you get the idea. However, I have been increasingly listening to “An Taobh Tuathail” (irish for “The Other Side”), which broadcasts “underground music from around the globe” (more…)

Colour like no other? Rome, Italy: Artist Graziano Cecchini unleashes coloured balls on the Spanish Steps.

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

Coloured balls in Rome In a stunt that calls to mind the Sony Bravia advertising campaign, “Colour Like No Other” on the hills of San Francisco, artist Graziano Cecchini along with a number of assistants, emptied half a million coloured balls down Rome’s famed Spanish Steps last Wednesday, January 16th, 2008. (more…)