Some nice looking promo shots for the new X-Men film. Click here if you want to possibly partially ruin the film for yourself.

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I know that this is not the time (Friday afternoon) or the place (tcal) to be talking about serious stuff like politics etc, but I’m going to post this anyway, because irishelection.com is a collective blogging effort that I think some people will find it interesting or useful. And they’ve just given the site a makeover, which makes it look good too.

This blog was set up somewhere at the beginning of 2006. It is a small attempt by Irish bloggers to get together and blog the irish election. Most posts that appear here will be cross-posted with the authors own personal blog. It is the intention of the contributors to add unique content to the blog in the run up to the election.

If you are a blogger interested in joining this project, email election-2007-at-yahoogroups.co.uk replacing -at- with @. All bloggers are welcome, irrespective of ideology, we just ask that you have some familiarity with Irish politics.

irishelection.com

The WWPC supports different configurable audio/video user interfaces and features a bright 65K colour TFT display, a touchscreen and a direct-access keypad. It can be connected to a HID input device through USB or Bluetooth interfaces.

Link

Yep.

In 1976, four million women in the United States each spent $9.95 on this device which caused bruising…and nothing more. The user created a vacuum by pumping the pedal with the foot. The device consists of a pump, clear plastic tubing and three cups - all in large sizes.

I just can’t post the picture.

That and much more at the The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices.

Not happy with the state of play at metroblogging, the various bloggers involved appear to have given up on that and gone with dublinblog.ie instead. Daragh McGrath says:

Some of the writers over on the Dublin Blog contributed to a similar effort elsewhere over the past few months, but decided that they wanted to move to a platform that we could manage for ourselves.

So, there it is, hopefully you will find it entertaining and enjoyable. All feedback (good and bad) is welcome, so, please do participate!

Channel 6 launches at 8pm. Check out their website, which has a shite utterly pointless flash intro. Which if you like, I’ll give you the privelege of skipping automagically by clicking here.

Daily Show picks up Fox News covering the news of Serial Killer on the loose as only it can.

Famous Irish Author in case you didn’t know.

More about him here, story here and of course the Wikipedia entry.

Bon Jovi, Rolling Stones etc etc..
New Wembley not ready in time. Doh!

I like judo fashion mainly.

I have no idea what the hell is going on here.

“Perhaps Les Trois Sauvages” by Australian surrealist artist James Gleeson. Image taken from here.

James Gleeson wikipedia entry.

Google image search for “James Gleeson”.

Hilarious.

Via Boingboing.

Chris Bliss website.

One type is the exact size and shape of a credit card, except that two of the edges are lethally sharp. It’s made of G10 laminate, an ultra-hard material normally employed for circuit boards. You need a diamond file to get an edge on it.

Link.

Via.

When asked if he has an Ipod, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer responds:

No, I do not. Nor do my children. My children–in many dimensions they’re as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I’ve got my kids brainwashed: You don’t use Google, and you don’t use an iPod.

Via.

The Irish Times reported the other day that 167 different languages are in use in Ireland.

And now breakingnews.ie reports that the 2006 census forms will be delivered in 13 different languages.

So go here and learn how to say “hello”. Its a start!

A pilot has been questioned after a Ryanair flight with 39 passengers aboard landed at a military airbase by mistake.

Ryanair confirmed the Airbus A320 had landed at the military base mistakenly and has called for a full inquiry.

Story at the Telegraph

Put simply, it sucks.

He’s right.

The website for Maddox’s new book: The Alphabet of Manliness. Amazon link.