IrishBlogs.ie is a great site - anyone who uses a feed reader should be subscribed. And anyone who is an Irish blogger should be listed!

But, every now and then my feeds disappear from the site :(.

The last few BifSniff posts don’t seem to be there, and the last few FestivalShirts posts don’t seem to be there either.

There doesn’t seem to be any contact form or anything on the site either… I’m sure there used to be…

Cork man, Bob Crowley won his 4th and 5th Tony Awards last Sunday night. He won for Best Scenic Design of a Play for The Coast of Utopia and Best Scenic Design of a Musical for Mary Poppins.

I can’t help but feel that if he was from Dublin you wouldn’t need me to tell you about him!

Congratulations Bob. May your success continue for many more years.

Adam Beecher has a new blog (or should I say a new home for his blog) at blogopho.be - I’ve spent far too much time looking at it, checking out links such as this one of people kissing themselves and various videos he’s unearthed.
Check it out. My view is not biased by the fact that the header graphic was done by yours truly.

Check out this extract from a somewhat rambling article by William Blum on CounterPunch.org, it contains a classic quote from Donald Rumsfeld:

If Chávez wins repeated democratic elections … here’s the recent Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld: “I mean, we’ve got Chávez in Venezuela with a lot of oil money. He’s a person who was elected legally just as Adolf Hitler was elected legally and then consolidated power and now is, of course, working closely with Fidel Castro and Mr. Morales and others.”

There you have it folks.
Chavez -> Democratically Elected.
Hitler -> Democratically Elected.
Therefore Chavez = Hitler.
How could we have not seen it before?

The quote is an old one, from 2006, but I thought it was too good not to share, it reminded me of this old cartoon a bit too. The article I took it from is current, and worth a read - even if it is a bit disjointed and rambly!

William Blum is the author of Rogue State, an extremely readable (if lefty) look at American foreign policy.

Some of you may have seen these already but since I’ve been kind of busy lately, I’m only catching up on my RSS feeds today.

Ladies and gentlemen…The Joker! No really!

In other news, Nolan is shooting four action scenes on the IMAX camera.

Thanks to Ain’t It Cool News and USA Today for the pictures.

Thanks to Al and ninemsn (see Al’s comment below for link)