Here is a list of the top 100 TV series on IMDB as of today. I have ordered them based on year produced, and then sorted them within each year based on 60% IMDB score and 40% the number of people who voted for each title. I am personally more interested in the newer stuff [...]
I saw this great info-graphic on The Atlantic comparing the costs of prison in the US with Princeton University.
I sit at my keyboard tapping, many formats o’er lapping, searching for a template for a letter to Lanore. Lanore, my Facebook friend long-standing, but my distance she’s demanding, a restraining order landing, with the full force of the law. So I’m at the keyboard thinking, with my broken heart a-sinking, trying to find the [...]
Another flash story, this one written in about 30 minutes. Any resemblence to real life characters is purely coincidental (no shotgun blasts to the face for me, thank you very much). “Red Leader, you are cleared for attack”. How did I find myself here; a marine biologist attacking an American space station armed with a [...]
(This is a flash story – a story written in 15 minutes on a train to Wales) Want to know how I ended up in Hell? It was Billy’s stag night and so far a total disaster. Because of Billy’s best friend Bobby, we were sitting at a raw food restaurant in London – a [...]
Try to get to sleep after watching this! Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty from Darragh O'Connell on Vimeo.
The Economist recently had an article on social media’s impact on blogs, especially how sites like Facebook have meant the death of a large number of blogs. I have been thinking recently about this myself. I haven’t posted on my own blog for over 6 months, partly because Facebook’s status updates has fulfilled part of [...]
Bill Thompson has posted a thoughtful article over at the BBC about the changes that social networking is making to our standards of social interaction. He discusses his own tweeting and live-blogging at conferences, and then talks about the news updates that were tweeted by Tearah Moore during the Fort Hood incident.