Fred for 2FM Meteor Awards Hope for 2009 »

By sarah on Feb 24, 2009 in Fun Stuff, In The News | 2 Comments

Voting has opened for the RTÉ 2fm Hope for 2009 Meteor Award and the great band Fred need your votes! It’s the one award that the public can vote for, and can do so online on the 2FM website here.

If you still haven’t voted already, here are some easy instructions from Joe Scanlon on how [...]

Fun stuff from the web – 20/02/09 »

By sarah on Feb 20, 2009 in Fun Stuff | 0 Comments

Yesterday saw the first episode of Dragons Den Ireland on RTE and in Twitter style using the #ddire tag used by those watching and commenting on the show @patrickphelan was able to make a Dragons Den Ireland Twoud. Check it out!
This post which featured on Fluffy Links 16th Feb explains the 10 Facebook privace settings [...]

Simpsons Did It »

By sarah on Feb 5, 2009 in Fun Stuff | 0 Comments

I came across this cool site, Simpsonize Me recently where you can upload an image of yourself and it will generate a ‘Simpsonized’ image of you.
Although this is a pure and utter marketing ploy, the site is fun to use and you can email your Simpsonized image, full size or avatar size to yourself.
Check out [...]

Twinkle Twinkle »

By sarah on Feb 5, 2009 in Fun Stuff, Useful Tools | 1 Comment

Having wondered for the past few weeks what that bright star was to the south west of my house I was intrigued by the mention of Stellarium on MakeUseOf today.

This app can display stars, constellations, planets, nebulas rendering 3D photo-realistic skies in real time.
It downloaded and installed quickly and I found it quite easy to [...]

Fun stuff from the web – 28/01/09 »

By sarah on Jan 28, 2009 in Fun Stuff | 0 Comments

Following on from my first Fun Stuff post on the demise of the Doner Kebab inventor, here’s a shocking report on Doner Kebabs. More shocking than finding pink sauce on your shoes the morning after the night before..
@DarthVader shared this great clip recently: Is Chewbacca in my nightstand?
Amazingly 14,000 people in the UK have been [...]

Scary Bush to Obama image morph »

By admin on Jan 24, 2009 in Fun Stuff | 0 Comments

Thanks to @patrickphelan for sending this on; click on the image to open it full size. Freaky, but strangely hard to look away…

Fun stuff from the web – 21/01/09 »

By admin on Jan 22, 2009 in Fun Stuff | 2 Comments

Here are a few links I came across today:
First sight of the Nokia N97 available 31/03/09 from play.com for appox €531. CES vid here.
Problogger has an interesting blog post on creating your blogging plan for 2009.
An example of genius marketing in the papers today.
The inventor of the Doner Kebab passed away aged 87.. what an [...]