Art, media, opinion and ideas
Michael Larkin of Disillusioned Lefty notes that Top of The Pops is soon to be no more. Given his tender years, he freely admits to not having watched it as a central part of the pop music experience. A child of the 80’s, I lived through it’s final few years of relevance, before it was lost to re-formatting and re-scheduling.
MCD, promoters of the Oxygen festival, recently took umbridge at people discussing their perceptions of shortcomings in some aspects of the most recent Oxygen event. (see "How we feared for our lives at Oxegen . .
The following is a Tuppenceworth public service announcement. If you did your Leaving Cert in 1994 the chances are that your passport has expired. Do not discover this at 4.
Life is precious. Life is precarious. There is a pair of purple martins nesting in the garage at the bottom of our apartment.
Tuppenceworth's main page and site have been unchanging for so long some of you may have wondered why. Well, for once, my laziness is not the full answer. I don't seem to be able to access the site through dreamweaver- I can open up the connection, upload files etc.
Last night was Flying Ant Night in Amsterdam. I'm told, by Councillor Eric Byrne no less, that South Dublin had Flying Ant Night on July 16th. This would be significantly earlier than the 9th August 2005, which was last year's Flying Ant Night.
There are those who might think that here at tuppenceworth we're all about public policy, digital rights and old paintings. But wait, there's more. We're also about tiny snippets of homemade animation.
Well, what now?It’s all very well to issue a single sustained clarion blast. It’s a little tougher to actually gather forces and have a clear idea of what to do with them. Nonetheless the last few days have seen the bare, tentative sketching of the kinds of things a push for change would involve.
Colm MacCárthaigh gives an overview of the timeline of events surrounding the evoting fiasco. Here's an interesting snippit. We come in just as the Oireachtas has formed a committee to look into concerns about evoting.
A recent post here by Simon sent some ripples around the bloggersphere. Some responses were reasoned, some less so. Some were temperate, some less so.
Recent Comments