Paul O'Flaherty

Star Trek: How It Should Have Ended

Please allow me to indulge in this moment of geekery. I think you’ll agree it was worth it.

Hat-tip to The High Definite

Do You Know Where Chuck Norris Is?

Where am I?

A bit of a laugh for Saturday. I just couldn’t resist posting this!

Go to Google.

Type “Where is Chuck Norris” into the search box.

Hit the “I’m feeling lucky!” button.

Enjoy

Bloggers You’ve Got 10 Years

According to this graph the death of blogging is predicted for 2020. That only give you 10 years to become a multi blogging squillionaire! You’d better hurry!

The chart is tongue in cheek but I wonder how many of it’s “predictions” will become reality.

Countdown to extinction?

(Click the image to see the chart full size.)

There are two predictions that I have a problem with:

1. The extinction of “A Good Nights Sleep” in 2040 – That died with the invention of curry, alcohol, women, work… society in general!
2. The death of “Cher” in 2050 – That woman has so much plastic in her she’s likely to exist until the planet itself is consumed by the expansion of the sun.

The Holy Trinity Of Tech And Ballmer The Fairy

Torvalds, Jobs and Gates. There are some who would say that at least two of the three in this picture do not qualify as being “holy” in anyway, but I’ll let you decide out which 2 for yourself.

I would consider these 3 to be the “holy trinity” of computing at the moment. Linux, Apple and Windows (don’t you love Ballmer as Fairy btw?) but who would you consider the holy trinity of the web? Who would make it onto your stained glass window?

Just An FYI About Email Forwards

Just in case you were wondering why I never reply to or forward any of your “hilarious” and “cute” emails!

(Via Bear).

Google Thinks The Irish Are Ugly

Google really must have a disliking for us Irish or maybe just for me!

I was about to do a search today and got as far as typing in “why” when “Google suggest” kicked in and offered me the following:

Why is my poop green? WTF? Maybe I’m drinking too much stout or something because apparently Google thinks all us Irish are ugly, stupid, alcoholic micks!

  I love you too Google. Really!

If The Death Star Had Facebook

I came across this while scheduling posts for Daily Shite and it just cracked me up. I don’t know who originally did the image, but if you know please drop me a note in the comments so I can give proper credit.

Exploit Your Child (Robot)

From Gizmodo comes this video documenting the systematic abuse of child like robots in the Philippines as they are forced to haul little kiddies around the mall in plastic rickshaws.

The future of robot benevolence towards human kind may be in the balance when they become our overlords but I can’t help but find watching these goose stepping, metallic munchkins eerily hypnotic.

Social Media Usage Explained In One Simple Diagram

If you’re new to the social media world it can be difficult to get into it due to the vast array of people you are likely to encounter. Many / most of these people are pushing their own agenda and have their own ideas of what it’s all about and what you should be doing in the social media world.

Thankfully this diagram exists to help you easily figure put social media and peoples reasons for using it.

Via Kevin Kelly.

Clearly Google thinks I need religion!

I was just over working on Daily Shite, (one of the pet projects of mine and Sara’s) when I was taken aback by the adverts being displayed on the site.

We’re currently using Google AdSense to monetize the project and have 3 advertising spots in the sidebar.

Today 2 of them were video ads for the Tom Cruise cult Scientology and the other is text ads for “God Pictures” and “Christian Dating Atheist”.

That strikes me as a fairly strange choice of adverts for a page where today the dominant content involved:

• A New Approach to Potty Training (bondage involved)
• Kate Gosselin Dating video (okay, maybe that one I can understand)
• Two deer humping to sell you condoms
• Inflatable Ingrid, every garbage mans fantasy!

See where I’m going with this? Clearly Google thinks I’m a very bad man that needs saving!

So you think you’ve got friends?

The comic strip says it all really. Why do social networks insist on calling all of your online acquaintances friends, when you’ve probably only met less that 1% of them in real life?

Maybe they should call them buddies, pals, stalkers or something?

(Image via Non Sequitor)