First of all, allow me to apologise for the recent week-and-a-half of downtime. Storm Darwin took out my phone line. Seemingly, while my connectivity with the outside world was a lot more tenuous than what I'm used to, Comcast announced that it wanted to merge with Time Warner Cable. It's …
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Lollies for Likes?
Well, it appears that yet another trend is emerging in the vast, superficial numbers-game that is social media marketing. A number of my school colleagues went to a nearby careers exhibition today, at which numerous colleges from around the country were advertising their curricula. Having been there myself a year …
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Twenty years ago yesterday, Slappy Squirrel was introduced to America as "the crankiest of creatures in the whole wide world". The next day, however, another contender entered the race: Marty Crane! That's right, today marks the twentieth anniversary of the début of another excellent television programme, Frasier! This day twenty …
read moreCelebrations are in order...
Yes, I know it's Friday 13, 2013, but that's not what I'm talking about.
I am talking about the 20th anniversary of the première of one of the most wonderful (if not the most wonderful) cartoons to ever grace television: Animaniacs!
Yep, twenty years! Life suddenly seems very long, doesn't …
read moreIrish Digital TV: RTÉ Two's stretching problem
Here in Ireland, we have a terrestrial digital television broadcasting service called SaorView. There are eight TV channels available:
- RTÉ One, which broadcasts in 576i
- RTÉ Two, which broadcasts in 1080i
- TV3, which broadcasts in 576i
- TG4, which broadcasts in 576i
- 3e, which broadcasts in 576i
- RTÉ News Now, which …
"Sausage factories"
It recently came to my attention that Minister for Education Ruairí Quinn likened the Junior Certificate to a "sausage squeezing machine", "squeezing creativity and curiosity out of the classroom". [Source: Limerick Leader] So, all of my friends and I have apparently been squeezed through this unmerciful sausage factory in recent …
read moreHow to destroy a Universal logo
There are a few ways of using animation tricks to "destroy" the 2013 logo of Universal Studios (or a Blender remake of it, at least).
Here it is, Warner Bros. Animation style:
...And Mozilla style (which is kind of related, since, you know, Mozilla started off inside Netscape, which was …
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