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You have become a fan of: murder
For those of us not interested in accepting a friend request from the Grim Reaper (sigh…), perhaps it’s handy to know which social network is least likely to put you six feet under.
Tetris: from Russia with lots of fun
David Kearns looks back at the legal battle that surrounded the rights to who exactly owned the mega-hit that is Tetris.
Google is reinventing the structure of the web with Wave
Google have never been happy with just being the world’s most used search engine. Their latest innovation, Google Wave, aims to reinvent the way email works.
The twentieth anniversary of a true gaming milestone
David Kearns looks at two decades of Nintendo’s iconic symbol of pre-Playstation gaming: the Game Boy.
The new online medium for humour
Offering a new way for comedians to truly be themselves, Sean McTiernan gives his suggestions of the best comedy podcasts.
Point and click
Sometimes the perfect photo can be out of reach. Amateur photographer Cian Ginty discusses how to get that perfect shot.
Hacking the planet
Nejla Lahiani looks at the more radical ways to fight climate change
Microsoft announces successor to Vista
Just two years after launching its much vaunted but troublesome Windows Vista, Microsoft has announced plans to release a successor this September.
Pet Gadgets
It’s great that scientists are trying to collide hadrons and find life on mars, but at least some are still pre-occupied with more convenient ways of disposing of pet faeces. Here are some hot picks to keep you on the cutting edge of pet technology.
The beginning of the end for newspapers?
David Kearns asks whether the print industry will survive the age of online news?
Global warming is “nonsense,” says NI minister
The Northern Ireland Minister for the Environment has banned a government advertising campaign encouraging people to combat climate change, saying that he doesn’t believe that humans are the cause of global warming.
Factfile: Large Hadron Collider
One of the primary goals of the LHC is to discover the elusive Higgs boson, the last undiscovered particle predicted by the scientists.
Science of dreams
“Research has shown alcohol reduces the amount of REM sleep you’ll get – has anyone else been dreaming far less since starting college?”
How much is your dead body worth?
We have all heard those silly expressions like “I would give my right arm for that” referring to something unattainably expensive, but how far would one go if the situation was desperate, would one actually give their right arm?
Review: Football Manager 2009
The words ‘Football Manager’ can mean many things to many people. For some people, they can mean the kind of addiction that can lead to forgetting to eat, sleep or something less important.
Lift off for all
In just two years’ time a new concept will be put into practice – space tourism. Yes, you read correctly. In what sounds like some outlandish futuristic sci-fi film plot, Virgin will launch sub-orbital spaceflights to the general public in 2010.
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