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RTÉ (Ireland’s national broadcaster) has a 404 page with a nostalgic touch for anyone who grew up here in the 1980s: https://www.rte.ie/404

> So you think the reason the Soviet union was less colourful was because there wasn't ads? I think it can have been a contributory but not a determinative factor. Mainly, I was ju…

I recall watching, some years ago, a documentary about the making of Tetris in which one of the contributors noted how much less colourful public spaces were in the advertising-fre…

Last Train Home: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1512201/

ys1010 is (accurately) describing the marginal rate which effectively applies to all income above a threshold (although the different taxes/charges have different thresholds). It’s…

As such, the software which makes up "Android" resembles OS X to me: open source in parts (even large parts), but the bit which most people (including developers) use is closed sou…

I wonder whether, after he returns to Earth, Cmdr Hadfield will expect things to hang in the air for him; looks habit-forming.

It would have been better for aspirant attendees to have been able to put the price of the tickets into an escrow attached to Google Wallet and/or pre-authorise the transaction wit…

It's a quasi-random lottery. If the client-side code is similar to last year's, then the Javascript on the holding page polls the server at random intervals for an "available" tick…

I had this as well, but the payment was ultimately declined.

Same here, using a Mastercard.

That is also blocked in Tokyo: "We're sorry, but this video is not available in your region due to right restrictions."

I'm in Tokyo, and streamed an episode of PBS' FrontLine from pbs.org only last week/the week before last.

It's 'football' in the UK, but in most of the rest of the Anglophone world, it's 'soccer'. Australia has its own 'football', as does Ireland.

I've had a Microsoft Ergonomic 4000 keyboard for a couple of years, now. Apart from the (relative) comfort, it's a well-built, sturdy (i.e. heavy) peripheral, which in itself impro…

The nominal value of public debt is an unreliable measure. Ireland's national debt was €30bn in 1987 and €36bn in 2002. But in the same period it went from around 128% of GDP to 32…

Reminds me of 3D Hidden Picture, a DSi Ware puzzle game, available in Japan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5QSclrIdlE Supposedly this uses the DSi's camera the track the motion o…

The protesters are trusting that the process by which the pills are prepared doesn't introduce some other substance which is toxic when consumed in relatively large quantities.

And Woods alone attracts a not-inconsiderable portion of the audience: TV ratings for this year's US PGA Championship were around 50% higher than for the same tournament last year,…

I presume he means that you should have up-to-date contact details for all existing investors, and that they should be contactable - e.g. they don't throw down the phone when you r…

There may be a support issue for Apple here. Imagine a customer purchases a Pre and syncs it to iTunes, but Palm's reverse-engineering of the iPod-iTunes protocol is incomplete and…

Microsoft's announcement next Monday has almost certainly been in the pipeline since before Google revealed Chrome OS, so it's not a response.

I don't think it's simply a case of "some lazy and irresponsible journalists" - standards generally seem to have slipped. Shane Fitzgerald was intereviewed on the radio here in Ire…