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Interesting banner ad (update) - 29/06/2009 - 17:44 GMT - [Link]

Right there in Google Reader, sitting under an Onion story, is a real bona-fide banner for the maddest ology of them all. It's not a spoof; it links to the real website.



Now, how did that get there? Is the Onion actually accepting ad revenue from Scientology or is this a cock-up by some third-party web ad agency?

Update: Looks like it's no mistake. That's a damn shame.


And I'm totally digging the Fight Club shtick to attract those world-weary Generation Y burger flippers/ex-investment bankers. I am Jack's wavering faith in humanity.

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Election fever - 10/06/2009 - 11:13 GMT - [Link]

So, in the wake of the local and European elections, I've seen the shape of election coverage to come: it's people on the ground in the count centres twittering, uploading pictures and streaming live video from their camera phones all to a central, automatically updating liveblog. It was brilliant to see breaking news and tallies appearing online long before TV and radio broadcast them.

On a side note, there's nothing so delightfully nerdy as PR-STV. This breakdown of the Ireland East constituency battle in the Euro election is from Jas.


Next general election is going to be so much fun :)

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Meta Bunker - 03/06/2009 - 14:30 GMT - [Link]



More here, plus some amusing fallout when Apple ban an iPhone RSS app because the sample feed pointed to the above link, containing the above video, which has a dirty word in it. Fucking awesome.

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Michael O'Brien on Questions & Answers - 26/05/2009 - 11:30 GMT - [Link]

A victim of the abuses perpetrated by the Catholic Church in Ireland gets his five minutes on RTE's Questions and Answers.



More discussion here.

• schpengle said:

  mY GOD!.........
  ?
  no,
  not my god........
  :(

  [2009-05-31 11:56:26 GMT] [Reply to this comment]

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Tell it like it is - 21/05/2009 - 15:46 GMT - [Link]

Whenever I ever get wrapped up in my own little woes, I would do well to remember that I'm actually a very lucky boy indeed.

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This is LeSinge.org v3.0. It's on its sixth* server since I registered the domain name in November of 2000 and it has gone through several drastic facelifts in that time, usually prompted by some cataclysmic event like someone deleting a load of files they shouldn't, or a server being shut down. This is the maddest layout yet; I'm trying to fit the entire weblog (apart from diary archives and the gallery) into a single loading page using all sorts of PHP-generated DHTML jiggery-pokery. The idea is to make it more inviting to look around since there's no loading between "pages". It's still a work in progress (more a proof of concept than anything), so be patient!

I'm Klingybert Humperbars! Dave Whyte, an Irish CS graduate, German speaker, linguist and incredibly talented web developer. I'm originally from Fermoy but I now live in Newbridge with my wife Beth and our son. I'm currently working for these fine folks and enjoying it greatly.

"The Monkey"? Eh?

My nom de guerre comes from an old Eddie Izzard comedy sketch. I also like Calvin & Hobbes. I've cobbled together a searchable archive of the strips.

Contact me!

• Email - me @ this domain name (I had the catch-all disabled, with instant results)
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