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Let’s all go and demand Wil Wheaton to come to Dublin for a talk. Sound good? Go on, click it, you know you want to.

[tags]wilwheaton dublin talk demand eventful irishblogs ireland blog[/tags]

Flippin’ Classic. Curse words, so it’s nsfw, depending on where you are.

PATRIOTIC POSTERS@WHITEHOUSE.ORG

Is it beyond cool that someone has hacked an iPod so that it can accept the Myanmar Language, and display in it? I think it’s great, and people like this should be rewarded.

Dad has an article in today’s San Diego Union Tribune. It’s about geomythology: how myths may have some truth in geological terms (like Atlantis). It’s really interesting reading, but I like the part where Dad says “Five years ago, I couldn’t do this without destroying my career.”

[tags]Floyd, science, newspaper, press, san diego, work[/tags]

I just found out aboutSTICKAM, but I’m still learning about it. Anyone else join it? Wanna try with me? You can put real time streaming video of your webcam on your blog or webpage. It’s neat. I’d like to get it working with LJ, but it does work now with Blogger, apparently.

I could have sworn I wrote a post here about Grey Matters, the blog of the writers of Grey’s Anatomy. Freaking brilliant show. Last Sunday’s episode (or whatever day it airs in teh US) was downloaded overnight and we just watched it here. The beauty of the shower, the intimacy, the ‘this is how real women take care of each other’. I know I was ready to bawl, and more than a few friends of mine have said the same thing. That freaking show deserves an Emmy JUST for the ep.

Google, but everything is backwards—meaning, do your search backwards too.

What an awesome hack.

I called TiVo today to ask about having our account suspended or put on hold, since we’ll be away for a while and would prefer to not pay their fees. You can’t suspend an account, unfortunately, you have to cancel and then start up again. If you cancel and sign up, you’re doing it as a new user again and commit to a 12-month contract again, among other things.

Or, TiVo will just give you a credit for the cost of the automated charges for the duration of your absence, effectively making it not cost you anything to keep the service going. If we’re back earlier than I estimated, it’s effectively free TiVo.

Positive side: this is awesome, it makes it much easier.

Negative side: I wonder what it’ll take for this to go away cuz too many people are lying to get free service?

Or maybe TiVo will just absorb this in exchange for their customers being really happy?

Time on my hands? Naaaaaahhhh

But it is fun to see things like that. I love me teh interweb.

Shoe Lacing Methods

Thanks to a mention in one of Adam Curry’s podcasts, I learned that The Daily Show with Jon Stewart is carried on the More4 channel in the UK. Our digital cable company in Ireland added the channel in December.

So now our MythTV box can happily grab it at 9:30pm each night for our enjoyment later. Only recently I discovered a pieced-together weekend The Daily Show: Global Edition airing once a week on CNN. While that was a great first step, this is now so much cooler.