Please allow us to introduce our 100th friend.
Lisa’s from Dublin.
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Monthly Archives: October 2010
Artist Brock Davi, whose work appears in Wired, the New York Times and elsewhere, created this Star Wars artifact – a fictional invoice to Jabba the Hutt from bounty hunter Boba Fett for services rendered capturing Han Solo.
Poor Boba never got to spend the money, what with being eaten by the Great Sarlaac and all.
Crap.
BoingBoing
Artist Liu Bolin, from Shandong, China, who appears in all the above photos, is an internationally renowned artist and master of camouflage. Liu, who works on each shot for up to 10 hours at a time, says his art is a protest against the actions of the Chinese Government, which shut down his studio in 2005 .
You see, it’s all about not fitting into modern society.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PrLjaS9SRY
Where Zuckerberg like totally brings the alpha-geek.
Artist Joby Cumming’s print works the Seven Deadly Sins into the form of a skull.
Naturally, you can buy the T-shirt. Also worth considering as a festive Halloween tattoo.
On the face, maybe.
Jack Dorsey, Twitter co-founder, is in town this weekend for the Dublin Web Summit (we’re calling it Nerdstock). He spoke to the Irish Independent‘s Ed Power:
“It [Ireland] is generally seen as a place where exciting things are happening. What I know is that a lot of companies are looking at Ireland not for their back office functions but for a very focused research area. It is more focused around innovation and new ideas, as a centre to bring in a large European conversation.”
Dorsey has strong opinions as to why the US — in particularly the San Francisco-Silicon Valley area — is an internet hotbed even as, for all our investment in the so-called ‘knowledge economy’, Ireland lags behind. In America, he says, it’s okay to fail.
“One of the strengths of the culture in America is that people are happy to take risks and make mistakes and learn from them. I have friends in Paris and Italy. I don’t think there is a culture of allowing for mistakes in Europe as much as there is in the US, where you can actually fall down and get back up and have another success. I don’t think that’s as tolerated outside the US.”
My Whole Family Use Twitter – After All I Invented it (Irish Independent)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFVlzUAZkHY&feature=player_embedded#!
We finally stumbled across something even creepier than dancing fembot HRP-4C.
Robot ‘gynoid’ Actroid F – an ultra-realistic android developed by Japanese roboticist Kokoro, was publicly unveiled in Tokyo this week. She’s dressed as a nurse who could possibly work in a hospital as an ‘observer’.
Imagine waking up to this shit after a botched appendectomy.
Actroid F also has a twin sister, Geminoid F.
More detailed creepiness here.
By which we don’t mean an (apparently) lone gunman should assassinate Ryan Tubridy
Oh no?
It’s a joke.
At the expense of a guy who hosts the Late Late Show, has just completed a 300-page bestseller, presents the morning show on 2FM (It’s what Gerry Would have wanted) and is dating a woman who is…oh, that’s right…completely smoking to any gender. While you write for douchebag dot com and live with your mum. Let’s just say: I don’t think the Tubmeister’s sweating over your headline, dude.
Well-grounded-but-essentially-irrational begrudgery?
‘fraid so.
But it feels so good
The best feeling in the world, bro. But a path to madness. Trust me. I’ve looked into it.
Cheers, Laterz
Lates
Oh.
That long.
(Photocall Ireland)
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Truly she is the people’s princess
Where were you the night he launched his Kennedy book?
On ‘The’ Facebook?
Hey, Snap!
A New Chapter For Ryan And His Lady In Red (Irish Independent)
* Lady in slide show wearing lilac suit: Dot Tubridy, friend of the Kennedy clan and Ryan’s aunt.
More here.
(Photocall Ireland)