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Declaration Of Internet Freedom

In the past few days several well known internet companies and thought leaders have launched the “Declaration of Internet Freedom“. Rather than try to explain it here’s the actual text which I think speaks for itself: Declaration We stand for a free and open Internet. We support transparent and participatory processes for making Internet policy […]

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Nokia Giving Away Monster Headphones

Nokia might not be the coolest phone handset maker out there at the moment, but they do have the odd bit of news that is semi-interesting. At the moment they’re running an offer where they’ll give you a free pair of Monster Purity headphones if you buy a Nokia Lumia 800. The headphones look pretty […]

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Questions For Antony Van Couvering?

With the new TLD applications list now published and the ICANN public meeting only a week away we’ll be talking to Antony Van Couvering, CEO of Top Level Domain Holdings. Antony Van Couvering is CEO of Top Level Domain Holdings who have applied for 70 new TLDs! So who is Antony Van Couvering? His LinkedIn […]

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Game Of Thrones Cooking

The second season of Game of Thrones draws to end in the US tonight, with Irish and UK audiences having to wait a couple of days to get the last episode in the season. While you might not be able to relive the lifestyle of the show’s characters (and some aspects of it probably wouldn’t […]

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What Should We Ask The President Of The World?

We love getting interesting guests on the show. This week’s no different. We’ll be talking to the President of the World – Barry Shein. Barry’s been involved in technology since before there was an Internet .. and he’s also the founder of the first commercial dial-up ISP on the planet. Here’s a quick snippet from […]

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Ryanair Takes Website Offline

When I first read this story earlier during the week I thought it was a joke, but apparently it’s not.. Ryanair is shutting down their website from tonight at 2200 until 2200 tomorrow night. Nobody will be able to book flights for a 24 hour period – the “shop” will be offline Here’s their official […]

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Game Of Thrones Via Floppy

So there *is* something useful that you can do with floppy disk drives! Here you have it – the Game of Thrones theme music as played by 8 floppy disk drives: [youtube]http://youtu.be/LgfPYetWWJw[/youtube] And if you thought that wasn’t good enough there’s even a Facebook page dedicated to other musical creations from the same person!  

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Tesla vs Edison

Earlier this week The Oatmeal published a very amusing and quite educational comic about Nikola Tesla (Никола Тесла) and also made quite a scathing attack on Edison. You can read the comic here. Tesla was obviously a genius and was behind a lot of the technology we use today, including the AC electricity that powers […]

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Who Should We Interview?

Over the last few months we’ve spoken to quite a few people from Ireland and overseas. We’ve spoken to people about domain names, writing, SEO, marketing, technology (in general) and a whole lot more. We’ve recorded episodes in Ireland, Africa, the US, Costa Rica and various parts of Europe. So who should we be speaking […]

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