This is Michael Cosgrave, co-founder of UCC WARPS, history lecturer, and all-round internet demon. His MikeCosgrave.com website is equal parts technology and current political debate.

He's also the co-founder of UCC Cricket Club, but despite that, he's generally well-liked.

Cool Mike Thing: This. That is all.

This is Megan Chapman. Her Little Mixie site is pretty much the opposite of mine: very artistic; photo-heavy; fun; looks gorgeous. She lives in the bayou part of Louisiana, so her best friends include an alligator and a Voodoo priest.

Embarrasingly for me, she's quite the wordsmith. Anything I send to her comes back covered in little notes, the combined effect of which always improves the original material.

Cool Meg Thing: Her eyes, like mine, change colour according to her mood.

This is Pete Shanahan. He's quite the whizz with those new-fangled counting machines. The first time I met him, he decided to GM a game of Paranoia ex tempore in a bar called Nancy Spain's on Barrack St. in Cork.

The last time I saw him, he was getting into a car in the Camp Rectory near Dingle in Co. Kerry. Follow the madness at petesh.com, most of which, as far as I'm concerned, might as well be written in Chinese.

Cool Pete Thing: Sometimes his eyes go yellow.

This is Theresa Storey, who is magically married to Mike Cosgrave above. She more or less saved my life in university, for reasons I'm not getting into right now.

She is an organic food producer, which, if we are going to survive as a species, will probably be more important than all the technology in the world. Her Green Apron pushes this line aggressively. Not aggressively enough, obviously, but she's one person.

tl;dr Buy her stuff, do what she says; improve the human race.

Cool T. Thing: She can fit twenty people in her barn (not a metaphor).

This is Kimberly Huynh, who is Vietnamese. Despite her racial handicap, we get along quite well. She maintains her blog regularly, and although mostly about food and family, it's eminently readable and fun.

Cool Kimbo Thing: She talks about vaginas like other people talk about what they had for dinner.