Courtesy of Donal who works with me check out Pandora. It finds music you like based on the artists you enter and then plays it to you. It seems to work believe it or not. Goddamn, Arthur C. Clarke was right.

From digg (think slashdot on steroids) I got this cool ASCII Page and Calcuator. One for the bookmarks methinks….

In my past I have been known to play a little roller hockey. Core77 reports on these Freeline Skates which look to reproduce the sensation of snowboard carving on concrete. Given that a sideways profile about halves your wind resistance, I reckon these puppies could get some serious speed on.

Helmet and wrist guards are advised…

Digital Rights Ireland provides a exemplary legal analysis on when IRMA may have exceeded its rights during the recent attempt to sue a number of Irish music downloaders/sharers.

Robert Cringley writes a wonderful article over at PBS on why Google is about to define Web 2.0. He states,

Two years ago Google had one data center. Today they are reported to have 64. Two years from now, they will have 300-plus. The advantage to having so many data centers goes beyond simple redundancy and fault tolerance. They get Google closer to users, reducing latency. They offer inter-datacenter communication and load-balancing using that no-longer-dark fiber Google owns. But most especially, they offer super-high bandwidth connections at all peering ISPs at little or no incremental cost to Google.

There’s more juice in the article.

Tried posting from flock today. Functionality looks great and I really want to use it but it just bales when I try to post to my (wordpress) blog. Oh Well lets wait a few release cycles.

Eirepreneur are asking irish bloggers to tag their del.icio.us entries with the tag for:oid where stands for Open Irish Directory.
You can paste this slightly modified post to del.icio.us button to your links Toolbar and it will add the tag automatically.
Of course this link won’t work as it just posts to my del.icio.us account, doh!

Ok, this just requires a bit more work on your part.

Now test by posting an entry.

Somebody has a lot of time on there hands. Try and follow one of these blue balls to the bottom….

(Thanks Mark)

Acronym Finder does what it says on the tin…

AJAX (Aysnchronous Java And XML) is currently taking the web world by storm. If you are wondering what all the fuss is about check out the demos page on openrico.org.