Opening tomorrow 6pm at Four Gallery Dublin Better Than the Real Thing? is an exhibition-in-progress featuring Saoirse Higgins & Simon Schiessl, Enda O
Google Bono has been getting a spectacular amount of visitors since it was launched here last Tuesday thanks in no small part to all the sites that have carried it including (but not limited to) u2.com, u2star.com, U2twilight, rhizome.org, googlemapsmania, nitenichiryu.org, random-magazine, turbulence, pajamasmedia and updaters. A big thank you to all these and everyone else who helped spread the word.
Zagreb city council has issued an official posthumous apology for not recognising his genius to Nikola Tesla exactly 114 years after he presented Zagreb’s then mayor with the idea of introducing electric street lightning to the city. The city rejected the idea which contributed to Tesla’s leaving for the US where he felt his talents would be more appreciated.
via robotwisdom
An International web conference on the challenges of curating Net Art tomorrow the 26th 10-12pm (Dublin +2hours) streaming live from Mobile Studios, Sofia
via networked performance
A pre-independance British postbox painted green, the crest has an intertwined E and R and A VII (Edward VII) which dates it to pre 1910. There are quite a few of these still in Dun Laoghaire where this photo was taken.
Stunned is pleased to announce the Bono Probability Positioning System version 2 : Google Bono
We know that for a visitor to Dublin an important attraction is the possibility that they may see U2 frontman and international celebrity Bono.
The Bono Probability Positioning System version 2 Google Bono (beta) is a mashup utilising Dublin’s extensive surveillance camera network in conjunction with facial recognition software, Google Maps and advanced probabilty techniques to allow visitors to determine the probability of seeing Bono in any of the most probable locations in Dublin’s city centre in real time.
The funniest thing I’ve seen all year, what a star!
via the eurotastic TCAL
An afterword on Lordi’s win in the Eurovision -check out TCAL(my favourite Irish blog) with their new Lordi masthead for all the details. I watched the Eurovision (semis not the final) for the first time in years because of Finland, Lithuania and Iceland’s realising that the Eurovision is a joke and treating it accordingly. Meanwhile Ireland keeps trying to win it with total crap that brings shame on the nation, why? Dave Fanning has a great rant on crap Irish eurovision entries and the people who promote them on Marian Finucanes’s radio show here (real audio link skip to 1.49) and comes up with the great idea that RTE fund the alternative eurovision people to come up with an appropriate eurovision entry. Either that or the Warlords of Pez as suggested on TCAL sounds good to me
Getty Images have invited five designers to create ten innovative ways to access their database of images pictured above is Information by Sumona – keep zooming in on the image in a neverending chain.
Via Rhizome Raw
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WalkSpace for the iPhone is an alternative walking app to let you navigate the city in a new and unexpected way.
