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: This ain't no hipster s***
From the Aussie comedy duo comes Hipsta, the best ironic hipster-mocking song since that last one got too mainstream to be funny anymore.
A frank solution to a real problem, Bad Batch is a mobile-app aimed at increasing safety amongst recreational drug users and reducing unnecessary loss of life.
The App is based around three key pillars:
- Providing a facility to allow for users to report dangerous substances,
- Providing a live list of dangerous substances relevant to a users location and
- Alerting users to dangerous substances that are in circulation in their area.
No, seriously! A new Google search feature is making it easier to find details on more than 900 different health conditions. These include everything from common conditions like pink eye to tropical diseases like dengue fever. Earlier this year, the company introduced a new search feature specifically for medical information.
Tom, 28, and Nicolaas, 21 are both livestreaming their lives in Amsterdam for nigh on 3 weeks, 24 hours a day as they prepare for a TV show called Super Stream Me. Each armed with a camera, we’re watching them do pretty much everything.
It’s mostly in Dutch but you’ll get the general gist. You are watching them wherever they go, who they talk to and what they do and you can react to them too. You can follow them both on twitter and you can see a map of where they’ve been, have them answer your questions and also check in on their state of mind every evening.
Send a large or small-sized carrot with a message anonymously to anyone in the world! You can write up to 150 characters on the large-sized carrot, or 80 characters on the small one, they’ll write the message all around the carrot so it can be turned and read line by line.
Because why not?
- And finally...
The Thai Tims – a group of schoolchildren in Chantaburi, rural Thailand, students of The Good Child Foundation are being taught English by teaching them Irish songs in English. Here they’re supporting Kerry for the Sam Maguire.
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