Browsing archives for November, 2009

Last Night’s Checkins Mashes Up Foursquare Activity

Geekery 30 November 2009 | 0 Comments

It was just a matter of time, but Last Night’s Checkins is one of the first sites to mashup Foursquare checkins onto Google Maps. A nice little app to analyse your activity yea? I wonder how else can checkins be modeled and how about comparative visualisations.

Here’s my Last Night’s Checkins heatmap.

Last Nights Checkin Map

On Video Games Live

Geekery 30 November 2009 | 0 Comments

Last night’s Video Games Live was bags of awesome. While I didn’t know many of the new games, the older themes were brilliant. Hello Duck Hunt!

The classic Metroid theme snippet rocked the first part of the show. Highlight of the second part of the show was the Super Mario theme.

For the encore, we waved our phones, DS’s and anything else gadgety. And did the Super Mario theme. BLURRRRY – but you get the idea!

Martin Leung, of the blindfolded Super Mario pianist fame, wowed the crowd with his genius.

That blindfolded vid.

Seven Ways That I’m A Celebrity Should Inspire Your Blogging or How the Fork is Trying to Digitally Spoon Me

Design, Geekery 24 November 2009 | 1 Comment

This post was originally a hodgepodge, pick a biz word guide that advocated working 27.5 hours a day, being stoked all the time, asking for freebies and favours, loving your haters and listening to your own Pasquale voice (perhaps a few of them) . I don’t have the grace to do satire well. Delete. Delete.

Instead I’ll link you to a post by Steve Henry on how creativity at UK digital agencies there is at an all time low. And Ireland is doubtedly the UK’s poor cousin in this regard. Discuss.

A World Made of Words

Design 23 November 2009 | 0 Comments

An advert made for Inlingua – a language course provider.

Timber! Limerick’s Christmas Tree Toppled

Photos 21 November 2009 | 2 Comments

Limerick Christmas Tree

Last night, Andy Lee switched on the lights of Limerick’s floating Christmas Tree. Things took a surprising turn, and the floating tree crashed into the Shannon Bridge (“New Bridge”). Major traffic chaos ensued. Road closures on the bridge and Bridge roundabout continue.

Grabbed a few pics this morning.

Limerick Christmas Tree

Limerick Christmas Tree

Great Minds Heart Alike

Design 20 November 2009 | 5 Comments

Belfast.

Belheart

Love Irish Food.
Picture 15

Radiohead ‘15 Step’

Culture 19 November 2009 | 0 Comments