more kids TV a good thing? 51% > 1.5 hours a day

ENN reports on a UPC survey that shows Irish kids watch the most TV in Europe. “The survey has highlighted a number of interesting insights into TV viewing in Ireland. It’s clear that TV viewing in Ireland remains essentially with parents taking an active role in deciding what kids watch and the importance of family…

Fine Xmas

got this last year from Brody Sweeney / fine gael.  Brody’s .ie/.com are gone  as is his ambition of a Dail seat to young gun Terrence Flanagan who is busy delivering retraction notices to every door in Sutton Park over storm drains & Brickfields. the card needs a caption. Out in the cold for 5…

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robi DAB radio review

dónal (Workers Playtime) writes So over all the robi [radio for the iPod] gets 7 out of 10, and DAB gets 2 out of 10. James Connolly (first clandestine radio operator [in Ireland]) said to the citizen army “hold on to your riflesâ€? I think in this case he’d be advising us to hold on…

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Little Robots [Rpt]

[first posted Feb 2006] I saw this in the guggenheim last week and had to to buy it; buy the postcard not the installation! Nam June Paik – Family Robot – Grandmother left Grandfather right [1986] single channel video sculptures with vintage television and radio castings and monitors; colour silent.

The Banks have nothing to lose but their chains

dónal writes over on workers play time Why do banks still chain down the pens to the table, the banks make billions of euros by taking in our wages and charging us to take the money back out of a hole in the wall. Could they not just give us free pens like in Argos…