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Well, if you are bored to death and have nothing better to do, scan ALL your books, CDs, movies and games with your webcam, and have them digitally referenced in the well designed Delicious Library. You can enjoy a new visual way to track who did you lend your belongins too, and when.

The program can read the bar code of your items (Beep!) and search for info in Amazon’s massive database -but items may not be found if they are rare! Still, next time your buddy comes asking for your precious King Crimson CD, add him to your list of you-owe-mes, and discover he didnt return yet your copy of Five Obstructions, a film you thought it was lost.

Now, you can open your trully Professional Lending Library.

You could also be using Post-its, but that is so passé composé!

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See David Pogue’s Podcast, from the New York Times, on Delicious Library

The Irish Media Guide first published in 1987 is the most comprehensive guide to the Media in Ireland both North & South.

Get it on a PDF at www.irishmediaguide.com.

The Irish Media Guide, has a circulation of 4,500 copies and is distributed free of charge to all Media Companies in Ireland, both North and South. The Guide is also distributed to the top 1,000 companies as defined by advertising expenditure. The electronic version is e-mailed directly to over 11,500 companies. Over 145,000 visitors have viewed the on-line edition since May 2006. First published in 1987, the Guide lists details of Irish Media Companies in over 400 classification headings and extends to 256 pages. They are currently compiling the 2008 Guide which will be printed and distributed March 2008.

Via www.irishmediaguide.com

SWEET TALK 24. Candy in association with Mickey Finn present SweetTalk24 in Dublin.
Thursday June 28th. 7pm doors / 8pm show.
THE SUGAR CLUB, LEESON STREET DUBLIN. Admission: eur10, tickets only available on door.

WIM CROUWEL presentation.
http://www.swisslegacy.com Interview: One & Two
“HELVETICA – The Documentary” Irish premiere with director GARY HUSTWIT: http://www.helveticafilm.com
Followed by Q&A session chaired by Ciaran O’Gaora (Zero-G) with; Wim Crouwel, Gary Hustwit, Michael C. Place (Build, UK), Aiden Grennelle (Image Now, Irl) & Alastair Keady (Hexibit / CreativeIreland, Irl).

About “Helvetica – The Documentary”
Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which is celebrating its 50th birthday this year) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. Helvetica will only have limited screenings worldwide and we are so happy to bring this unique evening to Copenhagen especially with both the director, Gary Hustwit and e-Types (the Danish strategic design agency specialising in graphic design, brand strategy and identity) speaking before the movie. The movie has played to audiences of over 1,000 in Berlin in the last few weeks and this might be your only chance to see this special film.

Read loads more and watch trailers in my previous post about Helvetica.

Via Candy Culture.

Helvetica: Homage to a Typeface

Analog is a weekend of free live performances celebrating creativity in contemporary music. From congotronics to no-wave guitar noise this series offers a journey through live music and sound.

Located in Dublin’s most exciting new urban space, this will be a weekend not to be missed.

Friday 13th
Cinematic Orchestra
DJ FOOD & DK

Saturday 14th
Konono No.1
Tarwater

Sunday 15th
Glenn Branca, Hallucination City Symphony for 100 Guitars

It is all in Analog

Exhibition of work by graduates of the Dublin Institute of Technology BA in Photography at the Gallery of Photography and the National Photographic Archive. The exhibition runs from 19 June until 30 June.

More in DIT’s website
See the works at SOURCE MAGAZINE’s website

The future of TV? I installed it on my mac and it looks great. I can actually control it with my MacBook remote! There is a small selection of channels so far, perhaps not the best ever, but Im sure if they keep at it the guys that brought us Skype will make an amazing use of the media. You need an invite to join, but I found a way to invite your self to Joost at here. Try it, just watch out for your ISP monthly download allowance!

From Spam Poison:
WWW Robots (also called wanderers, spiders, crawlers, or bots) are programs that crawl the Web continually retrieving linked pages. When a spammer’s bot visits your website, blog, forum, etc, all pages and sites linked to it will be searched looking for email addresses.
Now you can fight back against their robots!

The links added to your site will redirect email harvesting bots to trap sites that will feed it with an almost infinite loop of dynamically generated fake email addresses, mostly on known spammer owned domains! This will render their harvested lists pratically useless and of no commercial value.

If you are a blogger, add the code from their site to your footer. The code will look like this:

Get it at Spam Poison

“Report, view, or discuss local problems like graffiti, fly tipping, broken paving slabs, or street lighting” online. Great, where? at Neighbourhood Fix-It. This is the story of a site built by mySociety. They build websites which give people “simple, tangible benefits in the civic and community aspects of their lives”. As far as I know it only relates to the UK, but it serves as a good example of what the future of the internet will be like. We need more practical sites that allow us to improve our everyday experiences, and better communicate with those on power. Another great example is WriteToThem, where you can contact your Councillors, MP, MEPs, MSPs, or Northern Ireland, Welsh and London AMs for free. Very well done!

More community sites at mySociety projects.