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World Map of Social Networks June 2012

Facebook is eating the world. Read more here. Time to try …

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Added by Paul Gallagher on June 11, 2012 at 21:55 — No Comments

The true size of Africa

This is the kind of fact that pops up in a pub quiz, along with What was John Wayne's birth name?, leaving best friends purple-faced and arguing the toss, until bluntly presented with the facts.

Well here it is. Hard to believe, yes, but true. For the simple fact is the African continent is far bigger than we think, as it can contain the area of Western Europe, the United States of America, China, India, Japan and still have… Continue

Added by Paul Gallagher on October 11, 2010 at 21:00 — 4 Comments

Svengali - thinking outside the Box

The hit success of the internet comedy series, 'Svengali' asks questions about the future of TV.

Made by the team behind 'Wedding Belles', 'Svengali' is jointly self-financed by director Philip John, writer Dean Cavanagh and actor… Continue

Added by Paul Gallagher on August 25, 2010 at 22:30 — 1 Comment

Map of the New World

Nmap.org has created this incredible map using favicons of the 300,000 biggest websites on the Internet (according to Alexa).

The size of the favicon corresponds to sites with the most traffic. The smallest icons--those corresponding to sites with approximately 0.0001% reach--are scaled to 16x16 pixels. The largest icon (Google) is 11,936 x 11,936 pixels, and the whole diagram is 37,440… Continue

Added by Paul Gallagher on August 25, 2010 at 12:49 — 1 Comment

It's A Small World

Axel Roessler made this beautiful, haunting film, 'It's a Small World', by animating old Polaroid pictures, found in a discarded photo album, bought at the Melrose Trading Post fleamarket. It's an incredible piece of work and if you'd like to see more of Axel's work check his site Country Trouble. Soundtrack by Bertram… Continue

Added by Paul Gallagher on August 21, 2010 at 19:30 — 2 Comments

How to get that job

The best tip I can give on how to get the job you want is to never forget the interview is also your chance to ask questions. And asking the right questions can often be the key to getting hired.

You’re in the room, you think you’ve given a good performance, and now your interviewers ask:

‘Do you have any questions?’

Most times we mumble and mutter something like, ‘Nope, nothing,’ and shuffle off expecting the… Continue

Added by Paul Gallagher on August 21, 2010 at 12:15 — No Comments

Even Rupert Murdoch started somewhere

It's that time of the year when someone will say,"The newspaper is dead" and the usual Yes/No/Pavlovian response will follow. It's been going on since the former journalist and actor Peter O'Toole said, after one particularly bad review, "Today's newspapers are tomorrow's fish and chip wrappers."

Well, here it is again, as a new site allows you to make your very own newspaper… Continue

Added by Paul Gallagher on August 21, 2010 at 11:30 — No Comments

Facebook gives you syphilis - official

Well, we all knew it was bound to happen sooner or later, and now it has.

In my day it was toilet seats, door handles, or, as many a mother would claim, hanging around with those girls who smoked and wanted to go up the park for 'a bit'.

Now, we know that was all superstitious nonsense, duff gen, not worth the paper it was printed on. For today the real culprit has been named and shamed and I think we can all agree, we had a… Continue

Added by Paul Gallagher on March 24, 2010 at 14:00 — 1 Comment

Shop Art - The Thrill of the Haul

It was originally Descartes who said 'Cogito ergo sum' - I think therefore I am - a catchy little statement that supposedly defined existence. This was later revised in the 20th century by philosopher A J Ayer who thoughtfully… Continue

Added by Paul Gallagher on March 23, 2010 at 22:00 — No Comments

Power to the people?

My good friend Woody has a saying, 'No matter who you vote for, the government always gets in.'

It seems a fair comment especially when governments take a high-handed attitude towards policy.

Such high-handedness can be seen in the way the present government are attempting to… Continue

Added by Paul Gallagher on March 22, 2010 at 15:00 — 1 Comment

Coming to a living room near you

Sometimes I wonder if we fully appreciate the massive change technology has brought in the last 40 years.

I am old enough to remember the revolution Color TV brought to our humdrum b&w lives in the late 1960s.

One of my parents' neighbours bought a… Continue

Added by Paul Gallagher on March 18, 2010 at 14:30 — No Comments

Can Facebook Storm the Charts?

Is it a surprise that Facebook is America's No. 1 website?

Not… Continue

Added by Paul Gallagher on March 17, 2010 at 22:00 — No Comments

Archiving Digital - Bit by Bit

In 1989, Salman Rushdie's novel 'The Satanic Verses' was published. It received mixed reviews and would have become a fixture of remainder shops, had not been for Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who issued a… Continue

Added by Paul Gallagher on March 16, 2010 at 21:00 — No Comments

Harry Hill's iPhone Burp

There is always that magic moment on Harry Hill's TV Burp when two unlikely camps fight to see who is best.

Of course, the audience never finds out who wins these absurd jousts, but with former director at Sun Technologies and current… Continue

Added by Paul Gallagher on March 16, 2010 at 14:00 — No Comments

Beyond the Great Firewall of China

Ai Weiwei is an artist and digital activist, who recently made a great impact as a prominent online voice against censorship and other forms of oppression in China. On Monday he made a… Continue

Added by Paul Gallagher on March 16, 2010 at 12:00 — No Comments

Are you having a bad hair day?

Last week, facebook admitted to having a "bad hair day", after millions of users were locked out of their accounts. facebook didn't identify the source of the problem, and gave no skimmy as to what was going on.

Today, facebook is having another mullet chops, which this time, could be down to thick… Continue

Added by Paul Gallagher on September 29, 2009 at 14:30 — 1 Comment

All is doom and gloom? Oh no it isn't...Oh yes it is...

Negative subliminal messages work

People can perceive subliminal messages, particularly if the message is negative, according to a UK study. In three experiments at University College London, participants were briefly shown masked words and asked to classify them as emotional or neutral.

Read more… Continue

Added by Paul Gallagher on September 28, 2009 at 12:00 — No Comments

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