Politics
Sat, 7 Nov 2009, 5:45 pm | Harry
Everytime there is a demonstration in the country, the authorities experiences crowd trouble. No, not violence, though we occasionally see that rearing its ugly head - remember the misbeggoten Free Ulster riot some years ago. Share This
Screenwriter
Fri, 6 Nov 2009, 6:56 pm | Donald Clarke
So, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin are to host the Oscars. Well, that’s almost interesting. Actually, there is something mildly intriguing about the fact that Dr Hfuhruhurr and Mr Conductor are now being flung together as a double act. Note how the reports take it as read that Steve and Alec are equally famous and [...]
outsidein
Fri, 6 Nov 2009, 3:40 pm | Bryan
Clockwise from top left, the routes and starting times of the protest marches in Galway, Dublin and Cork. I’m not sure how I feel about today’s planned marches. I’m a huge supporter of deliberative forms of governance. I also strongly believe in the right of people to protest and publicly register their collective sense of anger. [...]
Pursued by a Bear
Fri, 6 Nov 2009, 11:34 am | Fiona
So, Offset has already kicked off and I’m only getting to post about it now. What can I tell you? It’s been that kind of week. It may already be too late to attend this three-day conference in Liberty Hall bringing together illustrators, graphic designers, street artists and the like, among them Scottish artist David Shrigley, the [...]
On The Record
Fri, 6 Nov 2009, 9:38 am | Jim Carroll
As The Ticket turns green for the week, Roland “2012″ Emmerich explains why he directs films which are always destroying the planet, we find out how green is your favourite rock star, there’s an assessment on the trade-offs being made between the entertainment industry and the planet and why music fans as much as the [...]
megabites
Fri, 6 Nov 2009, 2:20 am | Tom
The annual Bord Bia Food and Drinks Awards were presented yesterday. And the Bord took the opportunity to tell us that more people are cooking stuff at home. Which, I suppose, is good news. But it was the following passage in the report of the event that really caught my eye: “The born global award, recognising outstanding [...]
Mechanical Turk
Thu, 5 Nov 2009, 9:54 pm | Hugh Linehan
Technology can be deeply irritating. On the day before John Waters writes a stinging critique of user generated comments in general and a thread on the Observer’s site in illustrative particular, our own comments technology, Have Your Say, crashes and burns horribly. We are working very hard to fix it as quickly as possible, but [...]
Current Account
Thu, 5 Nov 2009, 4:07 pm | Laura Slattery
Credit ratings agency Fitch has downgraded Ireland’s sovereign debt two notches from “AA+” to “AA-”, issuing a press release that made use of such charming finance-speak as ”fiscal consolidation”, “dynamism in the large, high value added and diverse export sector” and “the outlook on the long-term IDR is stable”. But it wasn’t always this way. Back in 19th century, credit reports [...]
Pricewatch
Thu, 5 Nov 2009, 12:29 pm | Conor Pope
I don’t get premium rate services at all. The idea that people will spend over a euro a message to get lame jokes or horoscopes sent to their phones fills me with bafflement. The only time I’ve used a premium rate service was for a Pricewatch article earlier this year when I had my fortune [...]
Minibyte
Mon, 2 Nov 2009, 9:18 pm | Ciara
Bad news for people who installed Mac's Leopard operating system on a netbook - according to Wired, the latest update for Leopard will block the OS from being used on Intel Atom devices.
