Delorentos at the Student Bar in UCD on Thursday.
Was at the Sunday Roast in Thomas Reads on Dame St on Sunday night (Gran Casino were performing). Never heard of it before but it’s brilliant:- free music, board games (was Connect 4 this week) AND roast potatoes. Would go more often if it wasn’t so fucking hard to get home to Greystones on a Sunday night. Photos coming soon.
Shitty news from Nay and Una about The Chalets
In case you’re one of those weirdo-nutjobs who believes that we’re all descended from apes, I present to you the inescapable proof of intelligent design… The Banana.
Before you go into the fact that the bananas we know and love only look like that after centuries of careful breeding in order to improve their ergonomics, have a read of the hilarious comments over at the video page
They include such gems as:
Pineapples anyone?
can an omnipotent being create a task he can not complete?
and:
If you hold your banana backwards when eating it, does that disprove the existence of God?
And yes, there really is a GodTube. Some good commentary on that issue over at TechCrunch, including my comment:
How dare you claim that GodTube is a rip-off of YouTube!
GodTube CREATED YouTube and all the other similar video-sharing sites (several years after the scientific evidence would show them to have been created) and controls all goings-on at these sites (including the huge financial success of YouTube, relative to GodTube)
(via Mulley, TechCrunch and Gratuitous Common Sense)
Oh, and Happy Easter.
Microsoft, Google, [Yahoo, and Vodafone] will develop a code of conduct with a coalition of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to promote freedom of expression and privacy rights.
This seems to be quite related to these companies’ policies relating to censorship and monitoring of internet activities in China and similarly restrictive areas.
It’s good to see large corporations like these seriously considering their moral responsibilities and valuing peoples’ reservations about their conduct, and, as engadget reports, working with some very well supported and respected non-profit groups such as
the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, Business for Social Responsibility, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Human Rights Watch, and Reporters Without Borders.
Doubts have been expressed over how this code will be policed and enforced, but overall it looks like a step in the right direction.
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