The premise:

Seeing as we’re about to be inflicted with this, maybe we should start fighting now?

The result:

PotatoShop Fryday at Creative Ireland. (Image above by CI user TrashNinja.)

Sometimes a boards.ie thread comes along that captures the hearts of us all. Even Christy has a bird is one such thread. The original post:

So, I’ve just split up with a girl I’d been going out with for a while.

I was feeling a bit sorry for meself, so I threw on a DVD and did some comfort eating

I watched “My left foot”. Great movie. But it just made me feel more sad, because even Christy Brown managed to hang on to his bird in it

So, me new drumkit arrived today, and I’m feeling artistic. I’m working on a song called “Even Christy has a bird”.

Questions:

1) Will I have to tone down the title to get mainstream radio airplay?

2) Can someone give me some lyrics….All I have so far is “Eeeeeeeeven Chistyyyyyyyy has a buuurrrrrddddd”.

many thanks

Cue creative boards members submitting lyrics:

Two toes holding a Hennessy snifter
Two toes rolling a king-sized bifter
Leaves one for you, ho, you know I’m ballsy
I got more rhymes than cerebral’s got palsy

Word, motherFricker.

Now it’s gone all youtubey:

Harmless fun or incredibly offensive? YOU DECIDE. Or not. It’s too sunny out.

[Boards.ie] Even Christy has a bird.

Posted over on Mulley.net this morning, make sure you listen. Jim Corr; Bat Shit Crazy. Twenty has a good pic up.

Wikipedia on the New World Order.

Belfast Telegraph: Corrs guitarist: 9/11 was an inside job.

Photo owned by au_tiger01 (cc)

Separately, fishermen from Kilmore Quay in Wexford concerned about the effects of diesel prices on their businesses, are travelling to Dublin today.

They will hand out free fish in the city centre as part of their protest to Government.

Heroes? RTE Story. Well spotted by Off the Meatrack.

Dublin City Council? I already showed that they’re on the ball on IT. And fair fucking play to everyone involved in this:

Done in association with ageaction.ie.

This all feels like empty pointlessness when the momentous Lost season finale is getting closer.

• How to watch videos on youtube, like this one for example. Comedy genius? Or not?
• Moving an s leads to sexperts.
• Are high prices the primary reason for the pub trade being down? The poll responders give a resounding yes.
• Do you read music blog nialler9? It’s quality stuff.
• The Indo: Which Sex and the City character are you? Run the bus over them all.
• A new independently produced comic is being launched on June 4th. It’s called Last Bus. Details at the awesome Scamp.

The anti-Lisbon treaty Dustin poster, which was originally posted here. It looks like it appeared in The Irish Times today in their Lisbon treaty digest, compiled by Mary Fitzgerald. It appeared in The Irish Independent yesterday. No credit given in both cases.

You can tell it’s going to be exciting. Two things: When the green spinny shit is happening it looks like it’s going to form the Onion logo. And the beeping at the end is a teeny bit BBCish. Did someone say BBC? Make Bill Bailey go now:

This is just a technology proof of concept. RTE are short sighted in their uptake of technology… it’s taking them too long to move from Realplayer to YouTube.

If they’re determined to stick with realplayer, they should at least consider the option of an embed, like what is hacked together below. In theory this would allow you to embed RTE content onto your own web site, ala the Youtube embeddable player.

(Might work better opened in a new window.)

That took me about 40 mins to write and sort of works. If RTE took about a weeks worth of development time they could have an embeddable player with their ads popping up before play time. It’s a no-brainer, the vast increase in hits, the extra ad revenue, it’s all sitting there to be taken.

Or, alternatively, just kill realplayer, (it sucks) and become a youtube partner, saving gazillion billions in costs and reap the benefits of a global audience. If they’re determined not to go down that path, they should at least move to a flash platform, dragging themselves right up to only a couple of years out of date. It’s pathetic that their ads play in flash and then there’s a transition to real player / WMV.

Disclaimer: I do not think the embed should really be used by anybody. It doesn’t really work anyway!

Fixing potholes still gets TDs elected to the Dáil, a new book claims today.

‘The Irish Voter’, written by four university academics, claims to be the biggest-ever study of its kind on behaviour at the ballot boxes.

It includes a major survey of 2,500 people on their voting behaviour in the 2002 General Election.

Co-author Michael Marsh said: “Politicians are professionals. They know what gets them elected and it’s not performing in the Dáil. It’s fixing potholes. It’s knocking on doors.”

Full story at breakingnews.ie.