Greek mythology tells of 9 Muses who sat atop Mount Olympus dispensing various forms of inspiration to needy artists. The daughters of Zeus and Zeus and Mnemosyne, each presided over a specific category of the arts: Calliope (epic poetry), Clio (history), Erato (lyric poetry), Euterpe (music), Melpomene (tragedy), Polyhymnia (religious music), Terpsichore (dance), Thalia (comedy), and Urania (astronomy). For this week’s [...]

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Hat Tip Sliabh for this video. Kit flying is fun but don’t do it in a tropical strom.

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I have played this before but the world needs Mr Loaf even more now.

Ever feel you had to do something even though you really don’t want to do it. You know you see an opportunity and oh it is just so good you can’t resist but then you pull back and let sense prevail. I had one of those moments when Fine Gael TD Brian Hayes and Senator [...]

I’m not sure what the necessary criteria are for a documentary to get a cinematic release – the Discovery Channel and the BBC, the production houses behind ‘Man on Wire’ can surely lay claim to consistently rich and varied output when it comes to documenting the earths wonders, historic events and the achievements of man [...]

‘Who Watches the Watchmen’

It’s an insidious game, this comic book adaptation lark. Zack Snyder, the man behind ‘300′ has taken on the difficult task (one abandoned by the likes of Paul Greengrass and Terry Gilliam) of adapting ‘Watchmen’ for the screen. I’ve written before on my impression of ‘Watchmen’, I picked it up because of [...]

Just emailed our hosts there about something and got a reply 2 minutes later. Can’t beat that.

The pomp of the Opening Ceremony has given way to our country’s best atheletes striving for gold. A reoccuring conversation though is often whether the sports they hope to represent their country in are anything but pointless displays rather than a reflection of great sporting ability. We’ve looked through the back catalogue of discontinued sports [...]

The UK prime Ministers website is running on Wordpress. Which is the same software as this site.  It is amazing how a little blogging platform is expanded to much more. Not sure it is a great idea but well done to the wordpress crowd and especially Ireland wordpress guy Donncha.
They seem to have twitter and [...]