Loughlin O'Nolan
I do communications and marketing and online things. Cats dislike me.
Have a click around on the links below if you want to find out a bit more about me. As you may notice, I don't do Facebook except anonymously, and have no plans to be going public and sharing that much activity data with them anytime soon. Do feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn or Twitter though.
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This is my new favourite phrase. Thank you Marina Hyde (and Alex James!)
I doubt there is much interest out there in paying even £15 for any of them, let alone £115,000.
From The Awl, ‘The Maps We Wandered Into As Kids’.
The world’s most popular online newspaper is not the New York Times, USA Today, or the Wall Street Journal. You may not have ever visited it on purpose. If you’re American, you may not have even heard of it. It’s the Daily Mail.
Slate has a look at how the Daily Mail does print and online very differently.
Shame on me, I hadn’t realised that in addition to doing Wild Flag-related things, Carrie Brownstein had also been writing and starring in the quirkily wonderful Portlandia.
The second season is being broadcast in the US at the moment. Here’s a highlight from the first season.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHmLljk2t8M
More: LA Times interview | New Yorker profile, Carrie Brownstein
Pictures of Google’s new headquarters in London.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwHPRjCdQ48
Simply fantastic.
Inappropriate musical accompaniment with perhaps appropriate title: ‘Brand new, you’re retro’.
Oh yes indeed, from The Oatmeal.
I am picky about spelling, always have been. It’s called getting it right. Whilst I know that language usage and the spelling of some words evolves and morphs over time, these are some of the most constant, clanging offenders.
More misspelling:
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“@AllanCavanagh: 2004: Government welcomes eBay to Ireland. 2012: Government puts Ireland on eBay.” <-- *applause*
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I have seen someone talk about being 'cloud-savy' (sic). This fascinates me. What did you think the think the internet was all about?
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@faduda Also, it has 'cloud' in it, what's not sexy with that?
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@faduda First link scary as all hell. Second link brukken for now.
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@Tupp_Ed Do any of these researchers correspond by email, that now deprecated communications form, I wonder?
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I'd suspected as much. Cat people, your cat is making you crazy - http://t.co/RIz1wrUP3 days ago from web | Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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This mysterious "invaluable intellectual property" would be what now? http://t.co/dcynrGQs via @emilybell4 days ago from web | Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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If you want to know how to be a reporter, watch this a few times - http://t.co/y7vD7xDp4 days ago from web | Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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@FraffieB True. The number of them in there riding the train is also shocking. So very many structural problems in our political system.4 days ago from web | Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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@FraffieB Yep. I've used a rough metric of 'take the salary, multiply x 2.5' to get the "legitimate" take for years. After that ...
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@FraffieB Presume you mean just the basic, without the disgraceful unvouched expenses carry-on and other bits 'n' bobs? Travesty is the word
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@FraffieB Worse than gasp out loud. I still haven't got my breath back and I read it half an hour ago.
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@jobsworth From just a cursory browse around, it seems absolutely amazing. Not just concerts but interviews as well.
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@jobsworth Oh my, I was hoping to get things done this weekend and then you introduce me to @wolfgangsvault. Thanks!
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@DilW Great to hear Caroline Casey on the show, a true inspiration. Delighted you finally got her on!
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@clicky_here Might be because it's the weekend and they're not stuck in work with nothing better to do than troll (badly).4 days ago from web | Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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@clicky_here Respect for engaging with the commenters on your Journal piece. Mind you, they're being surprisingly well behaved mostly ...4 days ago from web | Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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Planning a tasty meal including Taleggio is the same as eating all the Taleggio, right? #goddammyoucheese
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@patphelan No worries, thanks. I think I may have been hallucejetlagging when I saw that.
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@patphelan Do you guys have airside SIM sales in Dublin, for a traveller to South Korea? I just swore you did *ducks*
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Paraguay40 plays
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Extra Time16 plays
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Das Kraftfuttermischwerk & Rudi Stöher@ Visual Berlin Festival at Tresor, Berlinby Rudi St...
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Trancemania Episode 61 ( Special Chillout & Ambient )by krhyme0...
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Shortly after 6 p.m. on a drizzling, dreary November day in 2010, two men dressed in green surgical scrubs opened the door of the Iceman’s chamber in the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, Italy. They slid the frozen body onto a stainless steel gurney. One of the men was a young scientist named Marco Samadelli. Normally, it was his job to keep the famous Neolithic mummy frozen under the precise conditions that had preserved it for 5,300 years, following an attack that had left the Iceman dead, high on a nearby mountain. On this day, however, Samadelli had raised the temperature in the museum’s tiny laboratory room to 18°C—64°F. With Samadelli was a local pathologist with a trim mustache named Eduard Egarter Vigl, known informally as the Iceman’s “family doctor.” While Egarter Vigl poked and prodded the body with knowing, sometimes brusque familiarity, a handful of other scientists and doctors gathered around in the cramped space, preparing to do the unthinkable: defrost the Iceman. The next day, in a burst of hurried surgical interventions as urgent as any operation on a living person, they would perform the first full-scale autopsy on the thawed body, hoping to shed new light on the mystery of who the Iceman really was and how he had died such a violent death.
I answered an ad that asked, “Like amusement parks? Want to write about them?” and was called for an interview. Bill, editor-in-chief of Funworld, was enthusiastic about the magazine, the amusement industry, and, particularly, Funworld’s new computers—he called them machines—which were apparently very fast. When the interview was over, he told me the job was mine if I was interested. I was.
Soothsayers have been around as long as recorded history, probably longer—after all, knowing what’s to come has always been accorded more value than knowing what’s already happened. Whether Isaiah shouting from the mountaintop or Jim Cramer shouting from the television screen, there has always been power and notoriety to be gained from prognostication. But considering that most (if not all) of these seers—whatever market expertise or God-given insight they might claim for themselves—are just shooting in the dark, it’s not altogether clear what makes a good prophet. Showmanship and some lucky guesses, to be sure, but beyond that? This is the question that surrounds the strange and enduring popularity of one of the unlikeliest prophets: an ex-doctor from southern France named Nostradamus. His name is almost a byword for cataclysm, trotted out over the centuries in the wake of major disasters as evidence that long ago someone had figured out they had been foreordained. Such was the case in the aftermath of September 11, for instance, when Nostradamus most recently reappeared in the spotlight. Today, venture into any bookstore’s occult section, and you’re bound to find multiple translations of The Prophecies, his best-known work, alongside books hotly debating its significance and validity. Or turn on the History Channel, and you might catch repeats of The Nostradamus Effect, a show that explored apocalyptic prophecies throughout history, with episodes bearing titles like “The Third Anti-Christ?” and “Armageddon Battle Plan.” His name and work have permeated our experience of doom and destruction, but the man himself is almost a cipher. Getting any kind of reliable understanding or impression of him takes some work.
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RT @darthvader: Party while you can because soon enough you’ll all be watching for that giant Mayan Death Star in the sky.
Online tech journalism is maturing, becoming as fascinated with talking about itself as the topics it covers :-) - http://t.co/UfLxq5Kf
“First time ever” - http://t.co/Na3EFxGH. Umm, not exactly - http://t.co/RmHIvBbR
RT @olivia_solon: RT @CulturalSnow: Man in gold vestments tells people to “see through superficial glitter” of xmas http://t.co/SdWl5dsA
RT @benhuh: We will move our 1,000 domains off @godaddy unless you drop support of SOPA. We love you guys, but #SOPA-is-cancer to the Fr …
RT @ChloeMorisson: Hello Irish community managers! I know you want a new job! Contact me now 018724662! http://t.co/9NAiri8r #CommunityM …
Police car and lamppost go head to head in Miami. There was only ever going to be one winner - http://t.co/Gb6XftHS
Majestic! Irish public interested in re-electing Fianna Fail because they fixed the roads.
I was helped lodge money into the GOBBLING MONEY MACHINE in the bank earlier by a very nice teller. Felt very sorry for the tellers.
Huzzah! RT @susan_lanigan: agh, someone said “déja vu, all over again” on RTÉ News
RT @mediaguardian: Tesco to bundle digital movies with DVD sales http://t.co/nvocmyzW « Would be interesting if it was the other way round.
RT @conor_pope: This campaign makes a lot of sense to me. http://t.co/PMcZTJk3 Please RT?
Qantas + pyjamas + hashtag = not a success - http://t.co/CNVmzWCo. Inevitable Downfall parody is pretty good http://t.co/UemeKMPy
RT @anildash: @zeldman @jensimmons @brad_frost oh wonderful! We should merge http://t.co/7jsvdkvq with it. (Collects sites that redirect …
How many jobs has this drivetime show created? Seems to be millions. Politician = waffle. Successful exit man = a few ;-) #newstalk
