Loughlin O'Nolan

Assignment: Irish Anger

Loughlin O'Nolan — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 01:47:00 +0000

BBC Radio documentary about the current state of the Celtic cubling.

“I just couldn’t imagine that property could fall by seventy or eighty per cent.”

How unimaginative of him.

Warning: contains mandatory Fintan O’Toole segment.

You Stay Classy, San Diego!

Loughlin O'Nolan — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 20:18:00 +0000

Losing 87% Of Your Audience Is A Great Success?

Loughlin O'Nolan — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 19:43:00 +0000

Rupert Murdoch seems to think so. Spectacular misunderstanding of why the Web works, namely hyperlinks that don’t run up against a paywall.

I Can Haz Fries?

Loughlin O'Nolan — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:41:00 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/v/NUHSUA2v0O0?fs=1&hl=en_US

Troll Physics

Loughlin O'Nolan — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 15:00:00 +0000

From Troll Physics

Urlesque.com showed this blog to a physics professor and got him to comment seriously on a number of the entries. Now that’s some top-notch trolling!

Why Do I Even Care?

Loughlin O'Nolan — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:52:00 +0000

This is one of the mysteries of peevology: Why do certain innovations annoy people, year after year, while other changes pass unnoticed?

From the Boston Globe.

Imagine Drowning In A Sea of, umm, Routers?

Loughlin O'Nolan — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 14:43:00 +0000

via weheartit

Too Many Stupid Jokes Suggest Themselves For This …

Loughlin O'Nolan — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:05:00 +0000

It will be interesting to watch how the Streisand effect plays out on this story.

Charlie Brooker Gives Up On TV, Kind Of

Loughlin O'Nolan — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:15:00 +0000

He’s actually just finishing up as the Guardian’s TV critic. Has it been a decade already?

Just a few of my personal favourites, not all from Screen Burn.

I won’t get over that in a hurry: my least favourite atrophied Hazel McWitch lookalike in the world, singing “I just want to make love to you”, right there on primetime telly. She has to be the only person on Earth who can take a lyric like that and make it seem like a blood-curdling threat without changing any of the words.

On Gillian McKeith, Screen Burn June 2006

He could probably make you a cloud sandwich if you asked. Or a blancmange made of numbers.

On Heston Blumenthal, Screen Burn October 2007

… Adrien Brody resembles a cross between Ross from Friends and a disappointed sundial …

… John Kerry, for his part, looks and sounds a bit like a haunted tree

8.45 Scissors Paper Stone

A televised hand invites you to compete against it in the world’s favourite guessing game

TVGoHome

Darwin’s theory of evolution was simple, beautiful, majestic and awe-inspiring. But because it contradicts the allegorical babblings of a bunch of made-up old books, it’s been under attack since day one. That’s just tough luck for Darwin. If the Bible had contained a passage that claimed gravity is caused by God pulling objects toward the ground with magic invisible threads, we’d still be debating Newton with idiots too.

http://www.youtube.com/v/aHun58mz3vI?fs=1&hl=en_US

Twittercast #2a

Loughlin O'Nolan — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:30:00 +0000

Quick update.

http://www.screentoaster.com/swf/STPlayer.swf