Joe’s Blog

Giant Lego figure appears on beach

Turns out that there is a crypt worth visiting in Dublin - St Michan’s Church & Crypt via Elly and Maryrose

Also via Elly - Nokia Announces Battery Recall

GSpace - a firefox addon (not from Google) worth trying perhaps

Aaaah - the hippies are threatening our jelly babies! Next it will be chocolate…
UPDATE: Feic - the cost of chocolate is shooting up too;

Correct cheese coverage formation - a tip for the shop in UL?

Transport 21 has gone tits-up already - 2yrs delay for Citywest Luas after 18 months. Would Enda have stood for this? It wasn’t announced either - websites were simply updated…

Many other people have posted this but I was there too - John & Patrick Collison of Auctomatic share their experiences of setting up Auctomatic, ycombinator and Silicon Valley.


People were quite excited to be part of an interactive webcast too - we were getting feedback and questions from the people watching the live stream

The entreprenuers from Limerick that were turned down by EI and raised $400,000 in Silicon Valley at Limerick OpenCoffee on Thursday - Auctomatic

The butter mountain is gone, the Bavarians sound more agricultural than the Irish and milk is becoming a sought-after commodity - a very interesting article: Getting Milked

Via topgold - The New York Times asks is cutting food miles is really beneficial

And what can make Germans cut through bureaucracy and punctuality - beer; Train Halts to Replace Beer Tap

Pencil stuck in brain, mostly removed after 55yrs

Via George/Damien - Forget Transformers: “A Gentleman’s Duel” by Blur Studios
(UPDATE: content removed but google it if you can) or have a look at the teaser http://www.blur.com/gentlemans_duel.html

I can has ur cheezburger - Mystery Ape Man Snatches Cheeseburgers in Germany

I can has ur Kinder egg - Shoplifting Squirrel Steals ‘Kinder Surprise’ Eggs

Again from Spiegel Online: 7 legs on 1 lamb

And it looks like Fedde Le Grand is going to be in Club Fabric in Tralee on the 10th August and it is the only Irish date listed for him!
Put your hands up for Detroit (NSFW?)

And another Fedde Le Grand song… (maybe I was in too Berlin too long)

They also claim Eric Prydz will be coming soon…

oops - apples on the autobahn

OMG - this guy in France has his head filled with fluid, squeezing his brain to the edge. The dark area in the centre is fluid. LV=”lateral ventricles, chambers that hold the fluid which cushions and protects the brain and which are usually tiny.”

Damien wonders if Harry Potter is thinly-veiled homosexual propaganda

Breaking news - the Internet has crashed (in honour of Die Hard 4.0)

Damien also has Thriller in inmate style & Bollywood style

Now here is wedding style:

Homer versus the Pagans

Biometric cameras - still useless with 30% hit-rate? (German)

German soldiers in the British King’s army and their account of crossing Ireland http://kglinireland.blogspot.com/

Heaven and Hell t-shirt

Via Gareth Die Hard 4.0 summed up

Via Conn O Muineachain Videos from around campus - Plassey Panorama Map

Via Stephen - Politicians avoiding Questions over and over and over again

German Bus Driver demands that a well-endowed woman moves seat or get off the bus because he was getting distracted click here

Japan Bans Use of Web Sites during Elections!

Marco Galli should be in Cork on the 8th of August to talk about Firefox 3.

Google Talk wants to know what music you like - Google Music Trends

For planespotters - Air Traffic Control for JFK Airport and Atlanta

Cork - are you jealous?

and very fluffy indeed, a colleague from Berlin has a lovely baby boy and they’ve started a blog for him (in german) - Niklas Alexander - a new life. Congratulations and best of luck!

Pretty soon it could be like Family Guy (season 6 just started)

Via RTE.ie

Workers at Eircom are to vote on industrial action in a dispute over a 2% pay increase…..The unions say they are entitled to the 2% increase without pre-conditions.

A stark comparison with Deutsche Telekom:

Under the agreement reached Wednesday, weekly working hours will be extended from 34 to 38 hours without a salary increase. Measures taken to make working hours more flexible to improve service include making Saturday a regular working day.

Salaries are also being cut by 6.5 per cent to a more competitive level, although the reduction is being cushioned “step by step in a socially conscious manner” over a period of 42 months. Deutsche Telekom initially moved for cuts of 9 per cent.

Burned out cars in Berlin - I stayed in the area marked by the blue dot - nice and safe.
The website list what cars have been burned too

Truphone is a VoIP service that I’ve signed up to. If the logo below says “call me”, you can ring me using my US number - 0012062796014

If you use Truphone too, they have free landline calls until the end of June

Killer Sudoku Solver, Killer Sudoku explained

I hear Limerick Radio stations launched a campaign to make sure Limerick stays on the monopoly board. Here is the leaderboard

Lego - it was super, Mario was okay via Bifsniff

Versus a bit more hardcore Mario - the truth behind the mushrooms

Mario: Game Over - Watch more free videos

My favourite radio station while I was in Berlin - Spree Radio - live stream which has loads of 70s, 80s and other favourites

And Novell have their own Get a Mac parody/advert for linux