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 back to his full segment below, but here's what you need to know from the Internet this week...
- An opening video - Butterfly Child
Butterfly Child - a special collaboration by schoolchildren in Clonakilty, Ireland and schoolchildren of the nomadic Samburu tribe of Northern Kenya.
The colourful, exuberant video features the Clonakilty children of Scoil na mBuachaillí alternating verses with Thorn Tree students and combines Irish melodic influences with Sub-Saharan African chanting. The Samburu tribe is known as the Butterfly People because of its colorful robes, jewelry and head-gear, and this was the inspiration for the name of the song. The song has been written by Clonakilty primary school Principal, Barth Harrington.
MeeDoc is a new healthcare app that allows patients to consult their GP using their smartphone. It can be used by anyone feeling unwell to contact a GP, discuss their symptoms, receive a diagnosis and have a prescription delivered to their local pharmacy.
Another major attraction is that the app allows people to consult a GP of their choice, even if they’re away on holidays or travelling for work.
If you’re looking for well written, researched and interesting articles to read, Irish website www.headstuff.org has it for you. Up and running a couple of years now with some 300 contributors, you’re sure to find something that will interest you in Film or TV, Music, Humour, Science, History, Literature and Topical categories.
It’s a welcome respite from the top 10 listicle articles that pervade the internet. It has raised awarness on a variety of topics - Alison Spittle wrote an article about the on street harrasment she deals with called Why can’t All Lads Be Sound Like Hozier that has raised the discussion about how women are treated on the streets.
- #GiveaBook
This month, until 24th December, Penguin will give a new book to a child each time someone tweets with the hashtag #GiveaBook.
This initiative is in partnership with First Book, a literacy non-profit campaigning for the right to read for young children, and sourcing new books for disadvantaged children. Penguin have pledged up to 35,000 free book donations up until Christmas eve, so get tweeting!
- Vote for your Irish Book of the Year
The Irish Book Awards happened last week and now you can have your say in who gets the title of the Irish Book of the Year. Just log on to www.irishbookawards.ie and you can vote from a variety of books and your vote could win you €100 in Book Tokens, handy for Christmas!
- After The Fire by Jane Casey
- Asking For It by Louise O'Neill
- Children Of The Rising by Joe Duffy
- Imaginary Fred by Eoin Colfer & Oliver Jeffers
- Irelandopedia by Fatti & John Burke
- Me And My Mate Jeffrey by Niall Breslin
- Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume
- The Green Road by Anne Enright
- The Long Gaze Back edited by Sinéad Gleeson
- The Virtuous Tart by Susan Jane White
- The Way We Were by Sinéad Moriarty
- Until Victory Always by Jim McGuinness
Jessica Kelly of the Newstalk parish would like to know what made you happy this year; was it one moment or were there a few things that made it special for you?
She would love if you would write about your #BestBits2015 and email them to her: jessica@jessicakelly.ie. It can be anywhere from 5 – 500 words and she can post them anonymously or with your Twitter handle.
She’s hoping that in a few weeks time we’ll have a wonderful collage of bitesized nuggets of happiness for other people to enjoy.
- The 2015 #100paintings1Day
Liam Daly, known as @eolai online, is a superb painter and for the past couple of years he has done a very ambitious project called ‘100 Paintings 1 Day’.
The third (and final) annual ‘100 Paintings 1 Day’ is on from 6pm Friday Dec 4th 2015 to 6pm Saturday Dec 5th 2015
To try and do, live on video, 100 paintings in 24 hours, each painting based on a photograph supplied by its owner on twitter
From now until the event tweet a photo with the hashtag #100paintings1day. Liam will collect them and then in a 24-hour period I’ll try and do as many paintings as possible based on photos submitted. Year one he did 43 and year two just 29.
A photo posted by @1916sackvillestreet on Oct 20, 2015 at 10:20am PDT
The aim of 1916 Sackville Street Art Project is to hold an exhibition of houses in any 3D art form commemorating the lives of the ordinary civilians that were killed in the 1916 Easter Rising. 485 people were killed in the Easter Rising 1916, 262 of these were civilians.
The objective of the Art Project is to tell their story by constructing 262 3D art form houses representing each of the civilians killed.
If you’re braving Dublin this year for the shopping, www.isdublinbusy.com is a very useful website for you.
Featuring everything from how many parking spaces are available in the city to how long it’ll take on the M50 to get to the city centre, to how busy town is right now and a statistical breakdown of when the best shopping days and times, they’re pulling in streams of data, already in the public domain, with everything from traffic tweets to Luas times.
Need to say thanks to someone but don’t know what to say or how to say it? This website has a lot of pre-written messages for you to give to your partner, your parents or siblings, your friends, colleagues, mentors, teachers, clients or doctors.
Just log on to the site, choose who you want to say thanks to and it will give you the message that you can include in your greeting. Don’t like what is suggested? Hit random and get another message. It may make writing the Christmas Cards a bit easier this year!
If you’re feeling great about yourself right now, why not treat yourself to HORU.io, where you can upload a photo of yourself and see how old people think you look.
The Hot-Or-Not of today, less cutting than Reddit’s Roast Me and less technical than Microsoft’s site earlier this year, you can upload a single, or number of, personal images of yourself and other people decide on how old they think you look; you in turn can vote on other people’s images.
- And finally...
The world's most popular Jewish acapella group, The Maccabeats, have made a video for a Latke recipe (the holiday’s star dish, potato pancakes) just before Hannukah starts. L'chaim!
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