The Pogues were a band I never 'got'. When I lived in Ireland (early 90's) they were super popular all across Europe and people were stunned that I'd never heard of them. I thought they were ok... but I wouldn't buy a cd or anything, all their songs sound the same to me.

Methinks it's like British humor, I just can't get into it.

He's looking a little emaciated, it makes him look a little bit like David Pogue from the Times. Strange.

man, i love the pogues! their lead singer has since lost all of his front teeth.

I thought there were but they all turned out to be dudes

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Good to be back.

Any new chicks around here?

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Hey, welcome back, me son!

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Ah, how I love hearing the trills of the penny whistle. Whene'er ye hear that, there's a good chance you'll be hearin' some music from the Emerald Isle.

Good to be back.

Any new chicks around here?

In reply to this comment by calvados:
Hey, welcome back, me son!

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
Ah, how I love hearing the trills of the penny whistle. Whene'er ye hear that, there's a good chance you'll be hearin' some music from the Emerald Isle.

Hey, welcome back, me son!

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Ah, how I love hearing the trills of the penny whistle. Whene'er ye hear that, there's a good chance you'll be hearin' some music from the Emerald Isle.

This has been adapted many times. The original played by the Pogues is much different.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'david pogue, ted, riaa, ituns, ipod, steve jobs, music, movies' to 'david pogue, ted, riaa, itunes, ipod, steve jobs, music, movies, ted talks' - edited by jonny

upvote. the pogues are amazing.

i saw this in the queu earlier, but passed thinking it was probably hype. It's really cute though, as is David Pogue

I was going to submit this. Anyways, description:

David Pogue, of The New York Times, ditches his old cellphone for the iPhone in this sing-a-long sequel. Original music video source: http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=f390265dcbb9e1f1da97a69637e921d39b6c99aa ...

Hey spiff, usually I don't cut existing tags, but since "pogues" is already in the title the search engine will still find it. All good I trust.

Tags changed from "pogues, irish, traditional, dancing" to "irish, traditional, dancing, drinking" by gold star member calvados.

David Pogue is interesting once in a while. Not so here.

Ok, in defense of the method used in video, resampling image:

David Pogue is showing the effect of only one variable on image quality. There are so many things which effect image quality from camera to camera. If you want to test only one variable then you must ensure that the others stay exactly the same. His method of testing ensures that only the resolution changes and nothing else.

If he were to have used three different cameras then there would have been all sorts of other things changing (image processor for CCD, sharpness of lenses etc.) which would effect the image and skew the results of the test.

You will get a better picture from a camera with great optics and a low megapixel than vice-versa. Also, when enlarging, which is where everyone says the megapixel count is important, the image sharpness is much more critical.

I'm a large format printer by trade and anything over A2 size only needs to be printed at 72 dpi max, and can easily go to 50 dpi as long as the image is sharp. If the lense is soft or the image processor poor then no amount of resolution can save your shots. We've had a lot of dissapointed/surprised customers wanting enlargements from their cheap 10 megapixel camera who moan it's all fuzzy when blown up.

I show them my camera (8 megapixel SLR) and they can't believe how stupid I was buying it: "Mine cost a third of that and it's got 10 megapixels!" They look at me in a pittiful way , how silly of him to waste that money. Then I show them prints of mine and they see why I spent the money on lenses not megapixels.

Megapixels are great if you can afford them with optics but I only have so much money and when buying a camera OPTICS COME FIRST!