Archive for July, 2007
links for 2007-07-28
Tunatic: free music identification software Pretty good and free song identification tool for those MP3's you forgot to ID3 some years ago (tags: mp3 tool tunatic identification song audio)
links for 2007-07-26
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Lotto Fever
For those of you living under a rock, inside a deep cave within Ireland, Lotto fever is gripping the country at the moment. The national lottery has not been won now for over 10 weeks and the jackpot is heading for Eur 15M this weekend. I play Lotto on the odd occasion, perhaps when depressed and really looking for an exit from the rat race or possibly on a whim of momentary enjoyment. I know full well that I would be better off doing something else with my cash but in true gambler speak, there's always that one chance. :) What really surprises me at the moment, is the excitement that this [...]
A Chilling Tale from Outer Space
Not so much a chilling story as a story of a chilling device. Despite the free services offered by most city councils these days for the disposal of white goods, NASA has decided to go with the good old fashioned outer space fly-tipping. Yes, a huge refrigeration unit has just been ditched from the International Space Station in an act of casual littering, a quick look over the shoulder to make sure the Martians weren't looking and drop! Hopefully this doesn't land in somebody's back garden, NASA are quoting a 1 in 5000 chance that somebody might be hurt by it and those aren't very long odds. [...]
To Padraig
To Padraig Harrington and yesterday's victory: You treated the British Open like a boomerang, you threw it away but somehow had the confidence that it would come back to you. Congrats Padraig, you did Ireland proud and hopefully it's the first of many majors to come for you now that you have broken the duck.
My Favourite Family Guy Irish Clip
I really can't make up my mind whether it should be the clip of Irish history or the one where Peter finally meets his biological father.
Flock keeps shouting Yahoo!
If like me you really like the Flock browser and want to move away from your other browsers but one little thing kept niggling at you, the fact that search results keep coming back from Yahoo instead of Google when you do an address bar search then read on. I'm sure that lots of folk using Flock have been used to Firefox and typing words into the address bar instead of the search bar to trawl Google for answers. For some reason though in Flock, despite setting your search engine default to Google it still comes back with Yahoo answers to these address bar searches. The solution is at hand - [...]
Review of Nike +
Nike + The Nike+ add-on for your iPod Nano is not just some fancy gimmic that iPod developers want you to buy. It's a seriously cool, accurate and informative running aid for those into their long distance jogging. I do a lot of running on a weekly basis and I'm constantly looking for things that will make my runs more enjoyable and successful. New trainers, better clothing, etc, etc. However, one thing I would never change is music, I bring an iPod Nano with me on every run. When I heard about Nike+, I was at first sceptical about it but then I gave into temptation.After a quick [...]
Nice one Floyd!
Nice one Steven Floyd & co. that is. A group of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are developing a robot that will be able to walk on water. The robot is designed to mimic the abilities of a type of lizard that has mastered the art of water running. Move over rubber ducky, bath-time just found a new cool toy! source: Robot Aims To Walk On Water (PDF)
Blue skies, China style
We Irish could do with a bit of help from our fellow planet dwellers in China at the moment. Absurd as it may sound the Chinese are investigating plans to help control the weather for the next Olympic Games. Normally they provide rain for crops in times of drought but this time around they are pretty convinced that they can stop light showers and will have a go at strong downpours. We could do with their help to lighten up this "wonderful" Irish Summer that we are having at the moment. source: The Register
