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Eight things you must know from the web this week

When it comes to surfing the web, it's easy to get lost at sea. So let Moncrieff's regular g...
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16.21 24 Nov 2015


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Eight things you must know from the web this week

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16.21 24 Nov 2015


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When it comes to surfing the web, it's easy to get lost at sea. So let Moncrieff's regular guest Darragh Doyle, a man who knows a thing or two about what's weird and wonderful online, steer you in the right direction.

You can listen to the full list in the podcast below, but here are some of the highlights:

  • An opening video - That Irishman's Go-Pro video in Vegas
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After his initial video of Las Vegas filmed entirely the wrong way got over EIGHT MILLIONS views, invitations to go on The Ellen Show and more, the original videographer was invited back to Vegas by an American company to film the video again... correctly this time!

Darren Doyle and his wife run the Speirview Ireland page in their spare time, using state of the art drone cameras that film videos and take photos from all over Ireland, to raise awareness of Irish history and heritage.

This is a crowd-sourcing initative website, used to map vacant and underused spaces across Dublin. The premise is that the city has a very significant resource of empty or underused buildings or sites that could be brought to address issues such as the current housing situation.

When you order your lunch through the website, which serves a new menu of five delicious salads each season - one for every day of the week - a meal is then donated to Mary's Meals, an organisation that helps to feed and educate some of the world's poorest children in the developing world.

Designed to help with revision in the countdown to the Leaving Cert French exam 2016, this amazing App provides you with key material for ALL aspects of the LC French Exam.

Just search for any song or artist and Riffstation will give you the chords for any song synced with the YouTube video! You can view the chord diagrams in sync with the music for guitar, ukulele and piano.

Having a tough time learning law terms? Do you know the difference between Actus Reus and Self Defense, or how a judge might rule for necessity rather than duress?  Well Nathan Burney, a Criminal Lawyer in the US has done a lot of illustrations to help you explain the legal terms and concepts in a very easy to read and understand way.

Domino’s have released a new ordering system that delivers pizza to your door literally at the touch of a button. It's a physical button - containing a ting magnetic piece of technology called Flic which pairs via bluetooth to your smartphone over Bluetooth in order for it to become your pizza delivery companion. Simply save your address and payment details on the Domino's website or app and select your favourite order -- the rest takes care of itself.

 

For those of you who have always wondered what films pigeons feature in, fear not. The Pigeon Movie Database is here to help you - listing all the films that pigeons feature in - from Predator 2 through Moonraker to Shame or the Talented Mr Ripley, here is almost every scene described and screenshot for you, showing you what pigeon starred when. Because why not?

  • And finally... a little boy got the hiccups while singing the Australian National Anthem

To see what got covered last time, click hereYou can listen back to this week's segment below:


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