Here are the Personalised Christmas Card designs you can choose from if you should be the winner.

The ridiculously over the top “outrage” about RTE wanting to deprive bloggers of revenue annoyed me. So I set up an Irish Fashion and Beauty aggregator to show how ridiculous the whole thing is/was.

Note the little extract of blog posts that appear on the page. Can anyone, hand on heart, say that this would stop a visitor from clicking through. The beaut.ie accusation was that RTE wanted to rip off content.

Read more about it on the about page of Yeronlymassive

The Presidential Lorem Ipsum generator, Áras Ipsum, is now live.

Enjoy.

The Italians have come up with this poster for The Guard. Who will want to see it there, now that they’ve given away the whole plot?

Via

Did you tweet about the visit of Barack Obama on Monday 23rd May? If so, you might be one of the almost 1,000 faces making up this very special commemorative poster of the visit.

Fluffy Button is my first foray into the world of internet commerce and I’m adding products all the time. I’ve taken the wraps off it earlier than I planned for this Obama poster, which looks fabulous when printed. Even if you’re not one of the 1,000 faces, it’s a nice souvenir to have.

Clicky wicky to fluffybutton.com and have a look at the description of the product where you’ll find a link to the blog with a zoomified version of the image.

He advocated going to farmer’s markets and getting in contact with local producers and buy direct.

He said : “If I had my way Pat, I would set up a national eBay to link the farmer with the customer and eliminate the supermarket”.

2 years later, I scratched an itch I’ve had since that time.

It’s a website called dirt.ie

The idea is basically what Peter Ward was talking about on that edition of the Late Late Show. Once live, it will be a simple way to search for people selling food in your area. You want carrots? Just select where you are looking for them and BAM – you’ll get a listing of any producers in your area with carrots for sale. It’s not just going to be farmers and large producers.

I’m hoping anyone who has food for sale, will list it here. Case in point. There’s a man who sells lovely tomatoes during the summer near where I live. He’s been doing it for years in his back garden. You wouldn’t know about him unless someone happened to mention it to you. Dirt.ie will list people like this. We shouldn’t need to go to supermarkets to buy everything. I would rather give my money directly to the person who has dug the earth and tended the plants themselves. Same goes for meat products.

So that’s it. All announced – now the work begins. Would love to hear from any food producers who’d like to get listed. I need some contacts to start building the database and do some testing.

Please spread the word. Again, the website is dirt.ie and email is hello AT dirt.ie.  Also on Twitter!

[Jburns43 on Twitter]

Honestly,  it reads like an episode of a sitcom. Sometimes I think we are all just lowly paid extras IN a sitcom.

I think I’m actually more amazed that there is a 77 year old Dail deputy. Well past retirement age surely.

PJ Sheehan, TD.

New price label for Arnotts with influence from Anglo Irish Bank

Truly a mad country.

Just for pig iron. Big version here (4.something MB JPG).