antoin@eire.com

My mum always used to say that when lights were introduced to any junction, things always got slower and more messed up than before. According to this article from Salon, she was right. They propose a solution to avoid needing the lights - you slow down the traffic to 20 mph, and then the junctions operate more efficiently.
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Get this: the chief executive of the second-biggest bank in Ireland has decided to resign, apparently because the IT department found ‘adult’ links on his computer hard drive.
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The public transport system in Curitiba is said to be very efficient, and uses mainly regular buses. It’s interesting to ponder how the same principles can be applied in other cities.
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This video of the Garda (Irish police) physical competency test provides a unique insight into the job of a professional police officer.
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I went to see The Fog of War tonight in the IFI in Dublin. It’s a great portrait of the years from the 40’s to the 90’s.
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The LGCSB is getting into the community website business with Mobhaile. At the same time, there are other related ideas kicking around for developing a sense of place on the Internet. It looks simple, but as myself and Gerry McGovern found out in the late 90’s, it’s actually pretty difficult.
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A new report on electronic voting is expected from the Commission on Electronic Voting in the next few days. We can expect it to be a lot more detailed and explicit than the previous damning report.
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The war on Iraq is turning into a pornography contest. Who can come up witth the most depraved pictures, and who can spin them to the greatest effect.

?ccording to yesterday’s International Herald Tribune Vodafone, Orange and O2 are trying to figure out how to make money from porn without looking irresponsible.
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I lost my Palm Vx organizer a few weeks ago. So I’ve gone back to my old Palm III, which I found in a drawer the other day. The strange thing is that it seems to have a much better experience than the Vx, even though it is a much older model.
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