Ok so everyone has one, and now I am one of the herd. Here is is, my Twitter ‘presence’. I reckon I’ll give it a whirl, it might be good, especially if other covenators join up and we can get some sort of collective twitticisation device fitted to this blog. I suspect the others may [...]
Archive for April, 2007
Some things just don’t happen in Dublin
There are times in London when I see something or do something and the thought that this would never happen back home occurs to me. This was certainly true on Monday evening when I found myself clapping coconuts together with 5000 other people in the middle of Trafalgar square and singing along to Always Look [...]
Not a straw man
Many caricatures of atheists exist, most of them as offensive as one would expect a caricature to be. Sadly, these are what some believers will hold in their minds as a complete and accurate rendering of how an atheist thinks, feels, and makes moral decisions. Even more sadly, some of the most prominent atheists (Dawkins?) [...]
There’s a concept that works
PA often make mention of MC frontalot and other ‘nerdcore’ rappers. It’s a formula that didn’t draw me at all. What you might call ‘black music’ is tremendously out of context in Ireland, it’s popular with a small group of hardcore fans.
Two For One
The dollar has gone $2:£1 - now is the time to be thinking of holidays in the states… or for those of us in the states who won’t have to incur huge accomodation bills if they come over here to be thinking about the anticipated pricewar on Eastbound transatlantics.
Just a thought to throw out there, [...]