http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/blogs/shane_barry/ A Three Monkeys Online Blog, authored by Shane Barry. en-us Copyright 2008 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:12:40 +0000 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:14:02 +0000 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.14 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Or a fragmentary synopsis of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West derived from some of the English and Spanish words I had to look up:bistre; chine; tang; jornada; jacal; pritchel; frizzen; bungstarter; vadose; vernier sight;... http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/blogs/shane_barry/archives/2008/01/or_a_fragmentar.php http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/blogs/shane_barry/archives/2008/01/or_a_fragmentar.php Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:12:40 +0000 When untrained amateurs try to do it, we call it "pulling a face." But when executed by professionals, it's simply...acting, dear boy.... http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/blogs/shane_barry/archives/2008/01/dont_try_this_a.php http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/blogs/shane_barry/archives/2008/01/dont_try_this_a.php Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:25:52 +0000 Apparently, the Irish Times's house seer John Waters believes the Intertube and bloggers are contributing factors in the Decline of West. Perhaps that explains why www.johnwaters.ie (featuring a fetching pic of Mr Waters in full-bearded "Iron John" mode) will... http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/blogs/shane_barry/archives/2008/01/_apparently_the.php http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/blogs/shane_barry/archives/2008/01/_apparently_the.php Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:13:32 +0000 No, not Heath Ledger. Rather "Doug Krantz, 27, a New York University student and Iraq war veteran," who turned up outside the actor's Manhattan home upon hearing of his death. His reason? "I have a sick fascination with morbid stuff."... http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/blogs/shane_barry/archives/2008/01/the_voice_of_hi.php http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/blogs/shane_barry/archives/2008/01/the_voice_of_hi.php Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:50:34 +0000 As plunging stock markets expose the fallacies of the widely flogged "decoupling theory" (Google returns almost 65,000 hits for the query "decoupling + United States + economy"), it seems hard to disagree with the arguments of President George W. Bush... http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/blogs/shane_barry/archives/2008/01/decoupled_from.php http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/blogs/shane_barry/archives/2008/01/decoupled_from.php Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:19:09 +0000 RTE's website coverage of today's turmoil in the world's financial markets kicks off with the following, interest-deflating headline: "US economy already in recession - consultant." Alas, the subheading "Oh no it isn't! - another consultant" is nowhere to be seen.... http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/blogs/shane_barry/archives/2008/01/the_100_million.php http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/blogs/shane_barry/archives/2008/01/the_100_million.php Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:46:06 +0000 "Entrepreneurship Takes Off in Ireland" is the title of an upbeat New York Times' article on the go-get-'em business moxie that is supposedly rampant in the "new" Ireland. The piece kicks off with a bold--some begrudging inhabitants of the "old"... http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/blogs/shane_barry/archives/2008/01/pat_on_the_head.php http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/blogs/shane_barry/archives/2008/01/pat_on_the_head.php Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:10:55 +0000 Given the near-daily reports about crises in the Irish health service, the country's position on this chart seems surprising. Then again, the murder rate in Baghdad has also declined impressively in recent months, but I still wouldn't be in a... http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/blogs/shane_barry/archives/2008/01/statistics_or_d.php http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/blogs/shane_barry/archives/2008/01/statistics_or_d.php Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:15:46 +0000 For a mid-week post, I was girding myself to produce an elevating squib on Alex Ross's much-lauded history of 20th-century music, The Rest is Noise. However, having reached only page 90 so far, even I am reluctant to offer a... http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/blogs/shane_barry/archives/2008/01/_for_a_midweek.php http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/blogs/shane_barry/archives/2008/01/_for_a_midweek.php Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:44:03 +0000 Taking advantage of an extended Christmas/New Year's vacation, I've been working my way through Tim Blanning's "magisterial" (i.e. very long) The Pursuit of Glory, which covers developments in Europe in the century-and-a-half between the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 and... http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/blogs/shane_barry/archives/2008/01/taking_advantag.php http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/blogs/shane_barry/archives/2008/01/taking_advantag.php Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:30:24 +0000 Enjoying the sunshine and the weak dollar in the company of my wife's family in Arizona, I have found it difficult to put the rest of the world's travails in perspective. Sure, I've diligently waded through the New York Times... http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/blogs/shane_barry/archives/2008/01/enjoying_the_su.php http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/blogs/shane_barry/archives/2008/01/enjoying_the_su.php Fri, 04 Jan 2008 02:32:20 +0000 I know it's a somewhat limited demographic, but if you've had a prefrontal lobotomy during the past few weeks, finding appropriate Christmas TV fare can be a challenge. You want something light, so as not to distract you from the... http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/blogs/shane_barry/archives/2007/12/_i_know_its_a.php http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/blogs/shane_barry/archives/2007/12/_i_know_its_a.php Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:27:39 +0000 Despite unleashing the phrase "Web 2.0" on an unsuspecting world, Tim O'Reilly can be considered one of the computer industry's good guys. The books released by O'Reilly are a cut above the usual illiterate tat that passes for software documentation... http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/blogs/shane_barry/archives/2007/12/_despite_unleas.php http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/blogs/shane_barry/archives/2007/12/_despite_unleas.php Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:21:05 +0000 This week The New York Times/International Herald Tribune painted a bleak picture of modern Italy with "In a Funk, Italy Sings an Aria of Disappointment":"[For] all the outside adoration and all of its innate strengths, Italy seems not to love... http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/blogs/shane_barry/archives/2007/12/_this_week_the.php http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/blogs/shane_barry/archives/2007/12/_this_week_the.php Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:26:43 +0000 From The Monkey's Typewriter's modern-life-is-rubbish research department this urgent piece of information: Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year 2007 is "w00t" "w00t? wtf?", you might be asking. Well, according to the M-W site it's an interjection "expressing joy (it could be... http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/blogs/shane_barry/archives/2007/12/gr8_nu_wrd_o_rl.php http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/blogs/shane_barry/archives/2007/12/gr8_nu_wrd_o_rl.php Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:10:28 +0000