Following the demise of OiNK and Demonoid, the Pirate Bay (TBP) crew are on some choppy waters with the local law-enforcement.
After years of cleverly skirting around Swedish copyright law using Sweden’s copyright law to their advantage, the guys running the notorious Pirate Bay bit torrent portal and tracker have finally been charged with copyright infringement [...]
Filed under: geek, technology by Paul McClean
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Tough times over at the ‘book, with thousands of cubicle monkeys in outrage that their favourite app is under threat from those pesky copyright owners.
Let’s be honest, unless you have made a pact with Beelzebub to exchange all your social skills for an extensive vocabulary of two-letter words beginning with Q, Scrabble is only good [...]
Filed under: entertainment, technology by Robin Lynch
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No doubt in response to the horrific act of cyberterrorism inflicted on this unfortunate soul, Barclays Bank have introduced a super new security feature, the PINsentry.
Essentially, having negotiated the Babylonian bureaucracy of Barclays’ offshore telephone banking service, they post out a reader, into which you - the hapless drone of your corporate overlords - [...]
Filed under: business, technology by Robin Lynch
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This is a really clever and well done ad. You have to watch it.
Filed under: art, business by Paul McClean
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This is a video from 1998 showing an enraged scientologist confronting two peaceful protesters in Boston. Watch as he attempts to provoke a violent reaction from the protesters, keeping his hands in his pockets at all time whilst screaming in their faces. You have to give the dude points for effort.
Some of the rebuttles are [...]
Filed under: humour, weird by Paul McClean
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Two young men take a turn down the wrong street view.
Filed under: humour, technology by Paul McClean
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Montel Williams turned the question on live television when he choose to focus on the solders dying in Iraq rather than passing of Heath Ledger. Montel did not return for a further segment.
Filed under: entertainment, politics, television by Paul McClean
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Don’t know how long this has been up but it looks really cool. Seems there is a new Lost alternate reality game online called Find815. I’ve only dipped my toes into it this afternoon but I’ve got to say, it’s one of the slickest ARG’s I’ve seen, with very high production values and some great [...]
Filed under: ARG, art, entertainment, film, television, web design by Paul McClean
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RTE, BBC and TMZ.com are all reporting the death of actor Heath Ledger, caused by an apparent overdose of prescription drugs.
Fucking shame. He was a fine actor.
Filed under: film by Paul McClean
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Following up on my post a while back about the really weird Subaru Impreza ad starring Kyle McLachlan, here’s an even stranger ad for the Subaru Legacy B4 starring… Bruce Willis?!
Bruce Willis. Fim noir. Only in Japan.
But wait, there’s more! Same car but with Jennifer Lopez talking some kind of badly dubbed Engrish:
“He’s a man… [...]
Filed under: film, japan, television, weird by Paul McClean
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