Scientists have been sneaking Bob Dylan lyrics into their papers for the last seventeen years.
Remember Dialup?
Dreams To Remember
Your dreams get weirder as the night goes on.
Oireland
"I believe it is essential to have Irish staff behind the bar or on the floor because they have the personality to get on with customer. Irish staff know what is going on in Croke Park or in the rugby or what is happening around the county," said Mr Chawke.
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The Irish Immigrant Council opposed Mr Chawke's views and pointed out that his stance was illegal.
This may backfire on Charlie Chawke. Just maybe.
The Irish Water data retention issue rumbles on.
More Irish Water issues rumble on. “You tell me one party out there who doesn’t look after their own. I don’t see anything wrong with it. It’s politics.”
Internets
Growth hacking = you will pester your contacts, or else.
Facebook has another go at following users around the Web. They're also building a drone fleet to follow people around in the real world.
Instagram was unplugged in mainland China lest people see what's happening in Hong Kong. The protesters in Hong Kong are using FireChat to organise, which is interesting. FireChat doesn't have centralised servers but uses peer-to-peer WiFi and Bluetooth connections between handsets, so can't be switched off as easily. Shades of BBM and the London riots.
Tim Berners-Lee says he wants " a web where I’m not spied on, where there’s no censorship". Fingers crossed.
The Daily Show may have met its match. One does not simply walk into a One Direction joke and expect to emerge unscathed.
Worth Pondering
Totally Confused
Everybody was 15th century fighting, using their own personal drone familiars, possessed by djinns in their pens, using teletext before the Asian Carpocalypse.
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