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W-UH -- When traveling, it's often worthwhile getting recommendations from other travelers instead of using tips from travel guides. I'm marking up my Clie's travel section with something from Ole Eichhorn, who stayed in the Charles Hotel in Boston, located right off Harvard square. "High-speed Internet access, comfortable beds, plenty of water pressure, and nice restaurants.
KILKENNY -- It's a brilliant day to be in Ireland as ten countries join the European Union. Activities range from Lithuanian crafts exhibitors along Kilkenny Castle Wall to stiltwalkers on the streets. Back in Dublin, there's probably going to be a display with the water cannon as several thousand demonstrators attempt to enter Phoenix Park. Online, "Vectorial Elevations" allows people to engage creatively with the light sculptures over the Dublin sky but I didn't get much from that interaction. If you want colour in the sky, watch Dublin's fireworks at night.
BLACKFIVE -- Chance Phelps made the final trip home to Dubois, Wyoming last week as part of a procuedure that I remember well from my days as a C-141 aircraft commander. It was never joyful accompanying the remains of a serviceman home. But I will never forget the glowing testimonies that percolated out of the funerals and wakes. You didn't have to attend the burial of Chance Phelps to be affected by intense feeling of respect surrounding his journey home. And you don't have to be pro-American to recognise respect for the fallen.
MR Strobl -- "Taking chance home" with thanks to Jarhead Dad and Doc.
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BOARDS -- The mobile and the wireless section of boards.ie often carries interesting material about wireless applications, in addition to tips about using phones. I followed one thread that explained two-way SMS applications, such as a voting application, and its handling of large amounts of text messages. The Nokia Communicators can handle this kind of thing in a venue. I've also used a Nokia D211 on my laptop to handle SMS polls.
GOTHAMIST -- The Empire State Building turns 73 today--on the occasion of welcoming 10 accession countries into the EU. I think we're going to have a better party in Europe than what's celebrated in NYC. They're not drawing attention to large structures in the States any more. I wish we could light up the side of the Kilkenny Castle with the colours of Lithuania--the country being welcomed in Ireland in ceremonies held in the sunny southeast.
Gothamist -- "Happy 73rd birthday, Empire State Building." Picture from Gothamist.
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TEMPLE BAR -- Based on the amount of press coverage surrounding the concept of "derivative works," Irish gallery visitors will see fewer piss-takes on original work. Xeni Jardin described how a "reality-TV human baby giveaway pissed-off Uri Geller." Geller alleges breach of trademark. Irish viewers won't see the ABC-TV program 20/20 when it airs "Be My Baby", a contest between five couples on the show, because that TV feed isn't part of any broadcast package in the Republic. As Jardin prepares her viewing schedule, she note, "the winners of the show get to adopt a real-live, pooping, crying baby." And the viewers get "a reality show with a human life on the line--all disguised as news programming."
CLONMEL -- An awareness of how to cultivate technology appears absent from the political platforms of candidates for European Parliament as well as from the dossiers of some Irish ministers. This troubling problem threatens the integrity of Information Society initiatives.
IRISH TIMES -- In "Clothes Maketh the Profession," Rosita Boland resorts to a stereotype of "creative types -- artists, writers." She needs to visit the current members of the MA in Visual Arts Practices who meet several times each week in Temple Bar Gallery and Studios and to note how they personify 21st century fashion. She would quickly discard this so-wrong description:
Both sexes tend to favour long hair. Dreadlocks are out, but pony-tails enduringly popular. For women, skirts either flow to the ankles or stop not far below their navel--you will never find a woman arty type in a knee-length skirt. Men love weird T-shirts, with strang and pointless words on them, such as "Deep-frozen love," "Meat," and "Air Rocks."
GOOGLE -- "Test" is the single word that appears at Google.com/blog. This teaser appears on common derivatives of Google, such as www.googlr.com and www.466453.com (URLs we use to circumvent border management). But it does not appear in the SEC filing by Google.
Fintan Friel -- "I have a test blog and now Google has one too. Plus they have my mail."
John Battelle -- "Now that the other shoe has dropped"
Chris Gulker -- "Search Google for the world's leading web search engine"
Amy Harmon -- "Is a do-gooder company a good thing?"
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TEMPLE BAR -- We discuss the contribution of the arts to society every Friday in Studio 6 of Temple Bar Gallery and Studios. Part of the coffee chat today dealt with an econometric impact study released by the California Arts Council this week. The report looked at non-profit arts groups in Santa Clara County annually and documented that they generate $229.1 million in revenue, "through everything from ticket sales to money spent by employees on rent and groceries."
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