Author Archives: Niall Murphy

Well that’s the end of that. After 31 years, Sony has finally decommissioned the Cassette Walkman. The final batch was shipped in Japan last April and when the last one sells, it’s lights out for the legend.

And that’s not all. They’ve also ankled the floppy disk.

What are we going to listen to 1980s mixtapes and save tiny quantities of data on now?

In the run up to Halloween, US department chain Sears has cleverly embraced the morbid zeitgeist and launched an online store for the undead.

They even have a Twitter feed.

See, now, Dunnes should have done something like this.

Brains.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUAVQm5ZlPs

Well, Glinner sure seems to heart the Cheryl.

Oh, right.

Yes, yes, it’s all a vast, stage-managed tabloid vortex into which even the most cynical are inexorably drawn, but still.

The Cheryl.

Carlow Adult Education Guidance and Information Service: guiding and informing, there.

Now follow the big blue link to Childerns halloween party ideas. There’s a fair few Childerns halloween party ideas. For the childern.

Is all we’re saying.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSK1D3bZhRs

We didn’t repost the ‘Cat versus printer’ video that’s been doing the rounds lately because quite frankly, it wasn’t all that funny. Cat bats printer. Meh.

Enter YouTuber Slurpy J – adding the frustrated office worker cat’s internal monologue.

Now iz funneh.

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This letter, from 1941, passed back and forth between cartoonist Harry G Peter and feminist theorist William Moulton Marsden, the creator of Wonder Woman. The excellent Letters Of Note has a transcript and the full story here.

The super-heroine made her comic debut just a few months later.

The rest, as they say, is Lynda Carter.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eF5c__8DFA&feature=player_embedded

This vintage Mortal Kombat style toon was created in just four days by animation students, Susanne Wohlfahrt and Marcus Blättermann.

[SPOILER: The normal rules of cat-mouse engagement prevail]

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