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Do you like to chat?
I have a confession. I'm an avid internet user but I despise chat. Am I alone? I dropped into Facebook a while ago and a chat window popped up. "WASSUP Dude?!" said a guy I used to work with but...
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Installing and reskinning a WordPress blog
This post is both for people with web design experience but who haven’t yet used Wordpress and it might be useful for regular Joes or small companies who want to install a default Wordpress blog engine on a site at...
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Living the life
Anyone remember [the.path]? You still out there Kev? [the.path] was a free Dublin zine, mostly handed out at clubs and record shops. There was a piece on the online version that struck a chord with me and I've often thought...
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Pork and Beans
No doubt this will be the most memed video ever, Weezer's latest video features, nothing but memes, marketing genius.
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Cubescape
Cubescape has been doing the rounds for the last week or so. Give it a try if you like building things with blocks. "A tool for isometric jiggery pokery" is how Themaninblue puts it. Here are some of his favourites....
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Robot dog parody
Boston dynamics have created this amazing robot dog. And while the dog's ears are hardly wet, there's already a hilarious parody by David Fine, and Beau Lewis, the guys who did the Mac or PC rap.
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Piclens
Here's a great plug-in for your browser. It's called Piclens, installs in the blink of an eye and works great. It's a photo browser for sites like flickr, Picasa, and facebook. Searching through Google images is no longer a chore....
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Dissection of a favourite web video
I got sent this clip years ago, pre-youtube. I downloaded it and watched it again and again. There's something strangely addictive about it. I think its got less to do with the surprise of a buttoned-up choir boy being able...
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Fighting with your neighbours through cartoons
This is hilarious. It's the kind of situation I could easily imagine myself getting into. Jess Fink, a renowned illustrator and cartoonist has had a few weird interactions with an odd neighbour in her apartment block. She's been documenting the...
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A real Chuck Norris fact
Voting is now open for the New Humanist's bad faith awards. I think Chuck Norris is a clear winner. He said if he was a president he would tattoo an American flag with the words 'In God we trust' on...
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