Word is just coming in that Steve Jobs has died. Looks like the old reality distortion field has finally let him down, but I suppose that happens to us all in the end. He came a long way from phone phreaking to where he landed up, and he should be admired for his single-minded...
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Is It About a Birthday?
A knock came to my door, waking me from my afternoon sleep, and when I opened it, I found a courteous gentleman, a member of the devil class, leaning against the wall with one elbow. His toe was propped against the step, in the...
Occupy Wall Street Movement Grows
How ironic that Barack Obama should become the new Richard Nixon. The cool, right-on, youthful President of 2009 has morphed into the CEO who presides over mass arrests of peaceful citizens protesting against the criminality of Wall Street. So much for the First...
Ireland 36 – Italy 6
After an impressive rally against Italy in the second half, Ireland guaranteed themselves a quarter-final place, but it took a fair amount of grinding before they finally started to...
Childhood Games
Following the huge success of the conkers competition, people have been asking what we’ll do next, and it’s a fair question. After all, it isn’t often that you manage...
Low-Fat Chicken, Beansprout and Mushroom Soup
Here’s a quick and tasty Chinese-style soup made with no frying and no fat. It took me about five minutes to knock this together. Anyone can make it, so give...
Creating Inorganic Life
Could we create life, and if we did, would it have to be life as we know it? We always seem to assume that if we ever find life...
“The Most Bloodiest Man” — Lebanon Waits in Fear as Syria Convulses
Mahmoud comes from the mountains up North, but he has lived in the city for forty years, most of them working as a barman pulling pints of foamy Almaza...
Conkering Heroes
One judge draws a circle on the floor, and then he draws a pentagram inside it. ‘Tis a dual-purpose mark, he confides. We can’t have people playin’ like a...
Gusty Spence RIP
Gusty Spence is dead? Who cares? Who was he? Many will have never heard the name and most who know of him will harbour a vague awareness...
Presidential Campaign Hots Up as Norris Nominated
So, despite the best efforts of assorted political fantasists, craw-thumpers and straightforward homophobes, David Norris has managed to secure a place on the ballot sheet for the presidential election....
Nominating Presidential Candidates
Article 4.2 of the Constitution says as follows: Every candidate for election, not a former or retiring President, must be nominated either by: i. not less than twenty persons,...