MobyD's Blog – July 2008 Archive (3)

I completed my second Squidoo lens today (Tuesday), a lens for Dervish, an Irish traditional music group. I now have a total of 34 lenses on Celtic Music covering 24 artists and groups, two radio stations and eight video showcases.



Lots of lens-building today and I'm running low on things to say, so I'll just ask that you visit my Danú and Dervish lenses, leave some… Continue

Several days ago I added Danú to a list of Celtic music groups I wanted to do a Squidoo lens for, and this morning (which is early afternoon Irish time, btw) I set about to get it done. I had it about 75% complete when it was time to take a break and listen to and watch Louise Molony's show on LI. As she often does, she announces she'll be featuring information about an artist or group. Her choice this week: Danú!



I swear, you can't make this stuff up! As she was giving her… Continue

During Klara's Monday evening broadcast this week, a message from Daithi said he was testing transmissions from Newgrange. I'd heard the name, but didn't know anything about it, so I looked it up on Wikipedia. It's a restored Neolithic passage tomb that's 5,000 years old, with the passage aligned to admit the sun down a long passage into the interior on the morning of the Winter Solstice.

One of the Wikipedia links was to a video about the 2007… Continue