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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.

  • Air – Pocket Symphony

    You are a moderately successful indietronica duo whose first album has been critically acclaimed… What do you want to do? > HELP You fail to secure the rights to remix the well known Beatles track. What do you want to do? > ITEMS You are carrying a set of decks, a Mac with Protools installed, Read more

  • The Beatles – Revolver

    Once again I have been sadly underwhelmed by the ridiculous, indeed intrinsically ridiculous, lyrcal content, or lack there of. They gently propagand swanseaic nothings to burlesque children of sacramental-savoyard fools. Which means nothing, not in the slightest. But you understand me. Yes you do. The guitar chords speak of nothing, or rather suggest knowingly, whining Read more

  • Exile on Main Street – The Rolling Stones

    I smelt the alcohol and smoke reek off him. It was in his hair, his clothes and in his mouth. His tie was pulled down and hung like a limp noose below his neck, the top button missing from his shirt. He took of his jacket, revealing sweat stains under his arms and a spill Read more

  • The God Delusion – Richard Dawkins

    Ever tried necrophilia? You should, its a gas. I know what you’re thinking, ‘Why dig up some dead thing and fucking it? There are better lays with the living’. Well I’ll tell you, because its great fun and bloody easy. You feel huge, really important. They can’t say or do anything against you, they’re dead, Read more

  • Technolotics up for a Vidcast Award

    Technolotics up for a Vidcast Award

    Seems like Technolotics has been nominated (not by me, I’d have picked a better episode!) for a Vidcast Award at this years Irish blog awards. If you liked the show, you can vote for it here. We were nominated for two episodes, clearly in a sly attempt to split the hordes of eager voters, so Read more

  • Joost not good enough?

    The Venice project, a mysterious beta application from Kazaa and Skype creators Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, has being variously hailed as the future of television, and the application which may finally bring to its knees the aging last mile bandwidth of the internet itself. Retitled in mid January to ‘Joost‘, TVP is an IPTV Read more