Globalisation
The Blame Everyone Game
I paused at a crossroads. An image of a postcard flashed into my head. A postcard I received...
Blather.net’s Map of the Weird
View Larger Map For the last two decades we've been keeping track of every lake monster, UFO sighting, Satanist,...
Welcome to the Matrix: the truth about our education systems
"Ordinary people send their children to school to get smart, but what modern schooling teaches is dumbness. It’s...
The So-Called Navan Road Riot
A few people throwing rocks doesn't make a riot... For those who don't know: Last weekend, Dublin was...
Screaming for Perspective
97 Books and no perspective, ro_G goes about restocking the bookshelf. With our Daev off to devote a...
NSK Passport Office in Dublin
NOTE: BLATHER.NET DOES NOT ISSUE NSK PASSPORTS So stop asking us! 'Art is fanaticism that demands diplomacy...' Happened...
March 20th Anti-War Demo in Dublin (Update 1)
And Blather was there... I don't usually go to rallies, protests, or demos... I don't like crowds, and...
Charlie McCreevy, Globalisation and the Rise of the Machines
What do McCreevy, Arnie and a load of robots have in common? Arnold Schwarzenegger, fresh from machine-gunning his...
Loyalty Cards, Big Brother and the Scared New World
Just what is the price of consumer loyalty... Loyalty cards, a subject in which I am intensely interested,...
Paul Kingsnorth’s ‘One no: many yeses’
Ever wanted to know why, despite the fact that the world is getting richer, there are more people...