Some wags in Trinity College Dublin have hacked up a humorous front end for the google.ie search engine. It’s called Doogle Search. Searches are broken up into categories from the hit Irish TV show Father Ted such as drink, feck, girls & arse. Words are mysteriously appended onto your search from a list of all things Oirish e.g Connemara, shite & Guinness.
Read more about Managerium here. Very funny read and quite true 😀
Couldn’t resist the title. It turns out that an italian who sent a girl an unsolicited compliment over SMS has been fined.
“A judge in the northern Italian town of Padua on Monday found a man who sent an unsolicited compliment by SMS guilty of harassment and fined him 300 euros ($391), Italian news agency Ansa reported.”
The full story is here
Realistically, why should textual communication be treated any differently from making a phonecall or sending an email/letter?
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SUN’s marketing department are cooking up funky cartoon promos for their s/w and h/w nowadays. Here’s the latest for Solaris 10. I’m not sure it altogether works (definitely a bit too earnest and not as irreverent as the MS smarty-pants toon). Still, Scott McNealy speaking Klingon at a trade conference is funny/tragic. Thanks to Kieran for the link. His place in the SUN is guaranteed. Contain your happiness Kieran 😉