Wikipedia, Where The Fantasists Go To Play
Go to the Wikipedia entry titled “Waffen-SS foreign volunteers and conscripts” and you will learn that the Waffen SS, theContinue Reading
Category: Technology
The Guardian Enters GUBU Territory
From the Guardian newspaper: “Guardian editors on Tuesday revealed why and how the newspaper destroyed computer hard drives containing copiesContinue Reading
The Syrian Weapons Bazaar
The military blog of the New York Times, “At War”, has maintained some excellent coverage of the complex conflict inContinue Reading
Blog Awards Ireland 2013 Nominee
Just to let you know that An Sionnach Fionn has been nominated for two categories in this year’s Blog AwardsContinue Reading
Big Boost For Online Scottish Language Resource
Some great news for the ongoing development and growth of the Scottish language. The government of Scotland has announced aContinue Reading
Racist Fun With The Journal.ie
YAY! The Daily Edge, part of the “Irish” news and current affairs website TheJournal.ie, has a “humorous” article today onContinue Reading
Second-Class Irish
A Word From Japan, the occasional blog of an Irishman who was formerly resident in the Land of the RisingContinue Reading
Britnats Target SNP Website Through Avast!
Here’s a thing. The avast! Online Security and Web Reputation Plugin, a web browser extension bundled with one of the world’s mostContinue Reading
Patterns Of War
With all the media focus on the rise of a global Big Brother via the Orwellian ambitions of the UnitedContinue Reading
Pobl Caerdydd
Didn’t get a chance to post this over the weekend but the best of luck to Pobl Caerdydd, the newContinue Reading
Fighting In Tongues
It’s been announced that Derry is to get a new Irish language community radio station, Raidió G, which will beContinue Reading
From World Wide Web To World Wide Watch
The newspaper revelations by the Guardian and the Wall Street Journal in relation to the NSA’s positioning of itself asContinue Reading
If I Were You I’d Give Ireland A Miss
Talking of technology, given the level of aggression and subliminal violence that now passes for social discourse in contemporary Ireland perhaps I could do withContinue Reading
Wikipedia – The Ultimate Poison Pen Letter
Andrew Leonard has a fascinating article on Salon examining the hidden “edit wars” taking place behind the seemingly placid façade of Wikipedia, theContinue Reading
The Lenovo IdeaCentre Q190 – A Proper HTPC
While many consumers have bought into the commercial push for so-called Smart TVs the majority of the products on the IrishContinue Reading
Some More WikiWar News
As a keen observer of both politics and technology I have spent the last decade and more watching the riseContinue Reading
RTÉ – Reform Or Die
Here’s an interesting snippet from the ever-vigilant NAMA Wine Lake. Guess which TV station was the only television broadcaster in Ireland to makeContinue Reading
A Little Less Culture In The World
Dreadfully sad news today about the Scottish author Iain Banks whose mainstream and genre books I’ve been reading – and lovingContinue Reading
Scottish Nationalist Podcast With Michael Greenwell And The Rev Stu
Thought I’d highlight an audio podcast of an interview between Michael Greenwell, Scottish Nationalist blogger, and the Reverend Stu Campbell, owner-author of theContinue Reading
Anne Frank – The Teenage Girl Who Terrifies The Neo-Nazi Right
There is a sickeningly offensive pseudo-factual claim being passed around by closet Neo-Nazis, anti-Semites and Far Right racists on various socialContinue Reading
You Say It Best When You Say Nothing At All
You’re not paranoid. They really are out to get you! 🙂 From the Independent newspaper: “Cloud computing has exploded inContinue Reading
Foclóir, The New Online English-Irish Dictionary
After a long wait the first phase of the new online English-Irish dictionary, Foclóir, is now up and running. The currentContinue Reading
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