The Dossing Times

A BBC article on country’s that will miss ‘W’ residing in the White House. Read it here.
23 Movies that made an impression at Sundance this year, here from Empireonline.
Talk of ‘Scream 4′ on AICN. Leave it alone!
A slideshow of the most popular cartoons in The New Yorker in 2008. Some great stuff. View them here.
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What follows is a rant of sorts on the absolute drivel from Kevin Myers published in today’s Independent. Find the article text here.
Kevin Myers does not want to deal with facts – he discards the actual death toll of the past weeks in the opening paragraph, and speculates the Israeli death toll would be much larger if [...]

This Guardian story retells the events of a stage performance gone wrong last Saturday night where a knife to be used fro a staged suicide attempt was replaced with a real one so that the actor actually cut his own throat, his life spared only by the inches he didnt cut to with the knife. [...]

Roaming Rebel is running an interesting survey through his work blog on how media, print media and news provision will evolve in light of the Christian Science Monitor’s decision to publish online only from 2009. Have you say here.

An incident wherby an armed robber was chased by security and members of the public following a botched robbery in Killester, Dublin yesterday is relayed here in the Irish Examiner. The robber was stabbed 5 times and beaten with a metal bar and subsequently died in hospital.
Local resident and Fine Gael Dublin City Councillor Gerry [...]

Irish Independent Article

Story of the Day, read here

Woman with objects fetish marries Eiffel Tower

Yes you read that headline correctly and then the story is an entirely disconcerting mix of ludicrousness and a worryingly harsh reality faced by such cultures.