Pray that they only use their awesome hip-hop, techno, disco, martial arts, Celtic dance powers for good.

I discovered Fusion Fighters when I opened a mysterious Facebook message sent in a plain brown envelope (new service, still in beta), and throwing caution...

The seventh most visited website in Ireland, Linkedin has over 200 million members in over 200 countries, over 2.6 million company pages and about two new members joining every second.

And it has groups, lots of groups; about 1.6 million...

Over 215 million people today are considered migrants, 3.15 percent of a world population nudging seven billion -- data beautifully visualized on a website called peoplemov.in, which tracks on one dynamic page all the population outflows and inflows for every county on the planet.

Cross-cultural currents ebb and flow around New York for the holidays. For starters, for many in New York the holiday in question is Hanukkah, which is already upon us and celebrated for eight days starting this Saturday. And all those who celebrate Christmas do so in traditions spiced by countries...

Eighty years ago, on Oct. 2, 1932, the New York Herald Tribune published the now iconic photograph of 11 ironworkers, casually dangling their feet hundreds of feet above 5th Avenue while breaking for lunch on an exposed steel beam they had...

Regular as the tides, another cultural acqua alta is washing over Venice now in the form of the Biennale Architetttura 2012. The theme this time is "Common Ground" and joining the many international firms exploring that theme in this cosmopolitan...

Quite the McMashup at Out of Doors at Lincoln Center this Sunday, July 29 -- Led Zeppelin's Shannon Conley, Get Smart's Barbara Feldon, Pulitzer Prize winner William Kennedy (singing!), New York Dolls Syl SyLvain, Dennis Dunaway of Alice Cooper fame, the cast...

Google Maps

You know the old line about the Great Wall of China being the only manmade object visible from outer space? Now Google Maps and Google Earth are bringing the whole world into focus, right down this acre's worth of Ireland, rendered...

It's a digital, interactive, online, tricked-out Google map called The Atlas of Ingenious Ireland. Dedicated to "Putting Irish Science on the Map," it locates and annotates key science, tech and natural history landmarks.

Click on the blue "Astronomy" icon with the silhouette...

With vibrant traditional styles embraced worldwide, Irish music is a strong brand. Extending that brand in weird and wonderful ways is Julie Feeney, an innovative singer, songwriter, poet and performer who is halfway through a...

While Irish eyes follow the official visit of Taoiseach Enda Kenny to China, a little gem of an Irish film has surfaced on YouTube, tracing a more humble trip in the opposite direction.

Made 10 years ago, but gaining viral traction now, Yu Ming Ainm Dom (or My Name Is...

The sign at The Cell Theater entrance warns, "TONIGHT'S PERFORMANCE OF 'BLOOD' AND 'DANCING AT LUNACY' CONTAINS THE SOUNDS OF GUNFIRE."

Take that as a sign that there'll be none of the season's shamrock and leprechaun sentimentality, so brace yourself for a...

While economic storm clouds were joining all the other clouds that typically gather over Ireland, the government decided to increase the flow of its greatest export to its most significant market. Lacking much in the way of currently accessible oil reserves, rare earths,...

Curse you trend-setting Frank Gehry designed museum in Bilbao! Curse you gorgeous seaside and mountains setting of Cape Town with your peppy BRICSA economy! Dublin is right back at you with the Kevin Roche designed Convention Centre Dublin!...

The internet lit up with recently that the world's last typewriter factory had closed. Though obituary now appears a bit premature, it's another reminder of how much the world of the writer is changing. Most writers ditched their typewriters years ago, but when it comes time to sell...

He came, he saw, he conquered? Obama, or O'Bama, captivated Moneygall, a youthful Dublin throng and most who watched it all on television or streamed online (thank you RTE!), and it's no surprise he owned the front pages of Irish newspapers, including...

There's a bit of YouTube to the 100-year-old film clips that emerged back in 1995 from barrels in English basement. They're short, unscripted, a little rough around the edges, the stars were regular people and, in what would pass for 4G speed in 1900,...