Boy meets phone. Boy loses phone through third party interference, miscommunication and misunderstanding. Boy wins phone back with help from commenter on blog.
A happy ending. Until the sequel.
It’s Mamma Mia!* crossed with WALL-E.
Took Herself to this last night as a — gift, penance, masochistic act? — and I laughed in spite of myself several [...]

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We never thought we’d live to see the day. iPhone porn from former boycott-the-iPhone advocate, Cork’s telecoms entrepreneur supremo Pat Phelan.
The caress of the box. The pauses - oh, the pauses. The tender, delicate removal of each layer of wrapping.
Wow.

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Oh dear. Dalkey’s pending Starbucks must really be a lot scarier than the regular sort if it’s actually turning other traders into stone.

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Amnesty International just has that pesky human rights thing. They just can’t let it go and buy more cheap knickers from Penney’s. Wah.
via Copyranter

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Pat Phelan, Mulley and others hit on an idea they should have started long ago - superefficient office sharing. Arising from a Twitter discussion. Love it. If you’re Cork and interested, read more. Or read more about the existing co-working networks in Dublin or Belfast, here.
They could do well to avoid the “it’s like Silicon [...]

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In case you’re wondering what they’re on about…www.darklight.ie. Makes me want to watch a film, anyway.
h/t Una

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NBC calls it - Clinton leading in South Dakota exits. But it doesn’t matter….Chris Matthews and Olberman nearly tearing up, quoting Archbishop Desmond Tutu about the historical importance of this moment.

“I’ve got to hope that ethnicity is now off the table.”
Olberman just compared this moment to Cronkite announcing the Moon Landing in 1969. [...]

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This case is one particularly horrific example of why Facebook et al have the right idea. No more pseudonyms. You should be as accountable for what you do online as you are standing in front of someone.
A federal indictment accuses Lori Drew, 49, of O’Fallon, Missouri, of using the social networking Web site MySpace.com [...]

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Looks like the California Supreme Court may have teed up exactly an idea I’ve kicked around for years: getting the State out of the “marriage” business altogether. I’d missed this par from the majority opinion on my first scan (well, it’s 200 pages long), as spotted by Chris Crain, via Andrew Sullivan:

Even though marriage becomes [...]

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By a one-vote majority, the California Supreme Court has struck down the state’s marriage law, to take effect in 30 days. Read on for some analysis and what’s likely to happen in the effort to overturn it this November…

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