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 Andrea Murphy. She likes music and thinking. Her Pink Philosopher site is full of thoughtful academic posts which are worth reading. If you're not into that sort of thing, then stop reading this and go back to watching Glee.

Cool Andrea Thing: She's even more Aspergery than I am. And that's saying something.

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.

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 Elisabeth Bell, who is all about the animals. And not just the fluffy, cuddly ones, either. There is no anthropomorphising here!

She runs a website which explains why our current relationship with animals is stupid and will probably get us all killed. Spoiler Alert: she's right.

Cool Light Thing: We both independently arrived at the conclusion that Willy Loman's plight in The Death of a Salesman is comparable to evangelical Christianity. Hers was for a book report and mine is here.