Amusing and funny stuff we found online
Drones (or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to be correct) are a cool technology, but they’re not without concerns about safety and privacy. Recent cases have led to prosecutions in the UK, and here in Ireland companies like Flightpath Consulting offer advice about legal and regulatory requirements. But our friends in the animal kingdom don’t care much for the […]
This recent cartoon from XKCD will strike a chord with many, especially those of us who maintain aging systems.
The telephone is as old as cinema, and from its beginnings has provided a very useful narrative device for the medium. Why bother to bring characters together, when they can just pick the phone? And the phone itself can become a plot point: answering a phone is a moment filled with possibilities, especially if the call is coming […]
For those fanboys and girls who just can’t get enough of Jony Ive saying “aluminium” in his soothing English tones, check out JonyJive.com! Choose from a range of words and phrases used by Apple’s design guru, and construct your own hypnotic, if meaningless utterances! View image | gettyimages.com How about: I can’t articulate why soft, […]
Those of us who are dads know that, while it’s important to be dependable, supportive, encouraging, patient and kind, what we’re really good at is taking the bows on centre stage. That, and opening jars. So here’s a tribute to some dad-heroes who make it all look so easy. [youtube]https://youtu.be/5xiMbHO6NyI[/youtube] Of course, Dad fails are just as common – […]
Giraffes are graceful, if slightly ridiculous creatures, loping across the savanna with their extraordinarily long limbs and necks. They can certainly make you think, about Darwinian evolution, and the relationship between an organism and their ecosystem. But it takes an extraordinary imagination to conceive of giraffes in the way Nicolas Deveaux has done: in a surreal and unlikely spectacle […]
This is the ‘Woof Washer 360’. Forget the dog; I want one for the kids! HT: iRadio
Here’s a dog on a motorcycle – because we have enough cats on this site. HT: Storyful
The sign on the wall here in Technology.ie office says ‘More Cat Videos‘. It’s a simple philosophy, but we’re simple people, and we need reminding on a daily basis. This one’s from GoPro, and features Didga, the skateboarding cat from Australia. Go on! One more cat video couldn’t hurt, could it? Did I mention skateboarding? And […]
So cats always land on their feet? Well – maybe they do – but that’s not what saves them from death. It turns out that feline aerodynamics are such that a cat’s ‘terminal velocity’ – the constant speed it reaches when acceleration due to gravity is equal and opposite to the drag caused by air resistance – is […]
