There’s a good discussion going on over at Tom Raftery’s web log about access to bebo & other resources in Irish schools. The post says:

Morning Ireland reported this morning that social networking sites MySpace and Bebo will be blocked from all Irish schools from September this year. The reason given for blocking the sites is that they are too time consuming. So far I can’t find any link to confirm this story.

I haven’t found any links either. Head on over to the post where we’ve been discussing the issue. Winds and Breezes has a follow up piece up on it as well.

Fascinating article at The New Yorker about a childs operation to remove the damaged half of her brain and her ongoing treatment and rehabilitation. The Deepest Cut.

Wherethehellismatt.com?

Gliffy is an online flash based flowchart/diagramming application and it’s free to use. Been playing around with it for a few minutes, and it’s neato. Gliffy click.

A few days late on this, but it’s great.

It’s only a brief teaser but it gives you an idea of the direction they’re taking with the story.link

A short piece about one of the most incredible moments in SFX history; the skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts. Watch it here. The animation was created by Ray Harryhausen; find out more about him at Wikipedia. Loads of stuff at his official site too.

Snaggle-toothed hockey players and sugar lovers may soon rejoice as Canadian scientists said they have created the first device able to re-grow teeth and bones.

This is only the beginning. Hurry up and replace our blood with wifi enabled nano robotic blood cells. Full story. (via.)

Yahoo have a preview of Snakes on a Plane up. Sorry. I totally messed that up. Yahoo have a god damned, motherfucking preview of Snakes on a Plane up. Better. Click!

Gazillions of Snakes on a Plane stuff previously.

First seen this a few years ago and is always worth a watch.

Ferenc Cakó is a Hungarian sand animation artist. This video is from his live performance at SICAF 2003, in Seoul, South Korea. In this performance, Cakó retold the creation myth with brief, successive animations.

The Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival (SICAF) is an annual showcase festival of animation, cartoon and related art genres held in Seoul, South Korea since 1997. Here is Cakó’s site.

The US Supreme Court has ruled that the Bush administration does not have the authority to try terrorism suspects by military tribunal.

In a landmark decision, justices upheld the challenge by Osama Bin Laden’s ex-driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, against his trial at Guantanamo Bay.

Full story at the BBC. Google news. Guantanamo Previously.

The trial of four leading Italian football clubs on match-fixing charges has been opened and adjourned.
Champions Juventus, plus AC Milan, Fiorentina and Lazio could be relegated from Serie A and forced out of European competition if found guilty

Fascinating stuff to be watching, gonna be an interesting verdict. Full story on the BBC.

Breakingnews.ie and every other news site:

The docking of Britain’s largest warship in Dublin is a shameful violation of Irish neutrality, the Dáil heard today.

The HMS Ocean drops anchor in the capital for a series of informal events including a reception for a British brewery looking to export to Ireland.

The military vessel was central to the assault on southern Iraq in the first three days of the 2003 invasion.

HMS Ocean page at royal-navy.mod.uk.

Boing Boing reports on a Swedish company willing to insure file sharers for $19 a year. As in, if you ever get sued for illegal file sharing, they’ll cover your costs. Boing Boing post. Swedish Link.

They’re running a contest in connection with youtube to create your own promo clip for the The US Series of The Office. The winners will be shown on NBC and the office website. Heres a guy to explain.

Comp & here

Find it with Google. Buy it with Google Checkout.

checkout.google.com

So we’re pretty much an entire day late with this story, that’s because I was rendered speechless and lost all the use of my brain for a good few hours when I heard that Pat Kenny gets €899,000 for his work, including his embarassing weekly performance on the Late Late Show. I mean, come on.

His total earnings of €899,000 in 2004 represent a pay increase of over 41%.

I have a few links to support my case. Listen to the mp3 at this link for starters. And then this one too. This article from Village magazine in April makes a good point:

Pat Kenny could be a good radio broadcaster. He has the voice, the fluency, the intelligence and the familiarity with his medium. All he needs is discipline, whether self-imposed or externally-imposed. Someone in his earphone frequently screaming “shut the feck up” or, ideally, a variant of same.

Luckily, we have podge & rodge to keep us sane; Bland Vs. Podge & Rodge says it all. The historical vandalised edits of the Pat Kenny entry on Wikipedia, like this one are always entertaining:

Nickname in college was “The Plank” because of his tendency to ‘get wood’ at inappropriate times. Is reported to have bedded over 40 show girls. Was once a trainee priest, but was forced to leave the seminary over allegations of sexual relations with a nun. Was once suspected of being “The Midnight Commando”, a Batman-style vigilante who fought night crime in late 1970s Dublin Once claimed to have travelled to space in “a giant hat”.

A pretty comprehensive list of full length cartoon episodes on YouTube. Cartoons on YouTube.

Raymond Plouhar, the US Marine that appeared in the infamous recruiting scene in Michael Moore’s film, Fahrenheit 9/11, was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq this week.

Michael Moore apparently was unavailable for comment. The American news shows that you see on Sky News late at night are full of talk about this at the moment.

Google news has hundreds of links for this story,