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Weird Wide Web: Bad hair days, living with your co-workers and laughing for charity

All of your essential tech and social media news for the week in one byte-sized portion.

WELCOME TO THE Weird Wide Web – where we take a look at the week’s best offerings in tech and social media news.

Bad hair day solution of the week

Two Irish entrepreneurs have launched a new app that operates in a similar way to Hailo, except in this case it’s for those in need of immediate hair care. The app allows people to make last minute appointments in a salon in their area, which could be handy for those waking up with an extreme case of bed-head or a sudden urge to invest in some luminous orange highlights. Before the bickering starts, it’s available for both iPhone and Android users.

(Image: What Salon)

Crazy start-up of the week

These lads, who work for a start-up that creates interactive displays for bars and restaurants, decided it would be an excellent idea for them to all work and live together in the one house. Business Insider had a look inside their office-slash-home this week. It got us to wondering what it might be like if everyone here at TheJournal.ie lived under the one roof…

Street design site of the week

If you’ve ever looked around a city here and thought you’d do a better job than some of our urban planners, have a go at StreetMix. Sure it would be nice to have cycle lanes, pretty trees and wide sidewalks everywhere but can you fit it all in? [via Gizmodo]

(Image: StreetMix)

Google hangout of the week

Attention comedy fans! If you can’t make it to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Google have arranged for you to do the next best thing. They’ve partnered up with Comic Relief and launched the first ever online comedy club. You can sit front row and interact with comedians through your computer or choose to hang back and just enjoy the show. A laughter meter will monitor your enjoyment of the show and suggest a donation at the end, which you can choose to give, or not.

(Video: Comic Relief/YouTube)

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    Jan 18th 2013, 8:02 AM

    good to see this crap taken off the streets. Tha gardai that do this type of work are the toughest bravest citizens in the state & no money could pay them to do it. They dont get enough of support.

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    Jan 18th 2013, 8:24 AM

    They do a good job and get payed well for it.

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    Jan 18th 2013, 8:31 AM

    Really? I suggest you go into the courts & see who they have to deal with before you consider their pay grade. I wouldnt or couldnt do their job.

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    Jan 18th 2013, 8:54 AM

    Is your avator meant to be ironic

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    Jan 18th 2013, 9:24 AM

    I don’t know enough to comment on how good or bad they are at their job. Fair play to them but nobody is forcing them to do it. It’s your opinion.

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    Jan 18th 2013, 8:17 AM

    Great work get this dirty drug out of Ireland

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    Jan 18th 2013, 8:39 AM

    Well done to the Gardai, they are doing a good job despite all the obstacles put in their way

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    Jan 18th 2013, 8:52 AM

    Great find, that disgusting drug killed my sister, great to see such a big find and hopefully all involved wont see freedom for manys a year now.

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    Jan 18th 2013, 7:52 AM

    Nidge won’t be happy!

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    Jan 18th 2013, 7:55 AM

    Can I hit the red thumb twice for the love hate jokes? .. Please Journal

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    Jan 18th 2013, 10:44 AM

    Hahahaha

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    Jan 18th 2013, 1:44 PM

    @baz – ‘joke’ implies it was funny, it wasn’t

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    Jan 18th 2013, 2:15 PM

    Nidge doesn’t joke!

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    Jan 18th 2013, 8:32 AM

    Great capture, heroin is a scourge across all societies. Hopefully there won’t be any punishment attacks as a result of this seizure.

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    Jan 18th 2013, 8:18 AM

    At least it’s more productive that all the recent cannabis seizures!

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    Jan 18th 2013, 9:37 AM

    Do a lot of the seizures seem to be in the Kildare area?

    Or am I just misremembering?

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    Jan 18th 2013, 11:00 AM

    Celbridge is the Baltimore of Leinster.

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    Jan 18th 2013, 8:30 AM

    Would you like some cake fathers, theres cocaine in it! Oh sorry its those what do you call its…RAISINS!

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    Jan 18th 2013, 4:41 PM

    Careful, the joke police are patrolling…

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    Jan 18th 2013, 7:54 AM

    Hate that, somebody’s gonna be pi$$ed !

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    Jan 18th 2013, 9:57 AM

    About time they found something other than cannabis. There is a lot more of the sh*t on the street to Gardai, Win for you now but a lot more work to do!

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    Jan 18th 2013, 8:30 AM

    I just can’t get that in such a small country there are quantities bigger than this latest find stashed all over the place and its hard to find? Surely its being managed by a small number of people, all of whom will be known to the gards and customs.

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    Jan 18th 2013, 1:27 PM

    Gardai did well here but it is what they are paid to do…..

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    Jan 18th 2013, 4:46 PM

    Not very well I’m afraid. The pay doesn’t reflect the dangers there exposed to. After all the cut over the last few yrs it’s worse than ever before. Gardai don’t get enough credit.

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    Jan 18th 2013, 6:43 PM

    Does anyone know how much of the 35kg was heroin and how much was cocaine? I’m trying to figure out what the official Garda value of a gram of either of these drugs is.

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