It’s a ‘The Facebook’ Face-Off
Broadsheet.ie: 271
Queen (Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland): 62,959
Queen (rock band): 5,733,556
Hats off to Freddie, Brian May, etc.
The Queen Joins Facebook – 40,000 ‘Likes’ In One Hour (Telegraph)
UK ceramic artist Jessica Harrison’s undead Victoriana. A nice gift for your least favourite granny next month.
Zombies. They’re not just for Halloween, you know.
Victorian Ladies and Their Brains (Nerdcore)
Edison Peña, one of the 33 Chilean miners rescued a few weeks ago after being trapped following a mine collapse, spent many of his 69 days underground, running. He did loops of three to six miles a day in sawed-off steel-toed boots, and when he was finally taken above ground he stated his intent to race in the New York City Marathon.
Race organizers figured they’d fly him up as a special guest, but Peña insisted on racing. He wanted to finish in under six hours, and the Marathon officials, fearing for the health of a guy who’d never run a marathon before—and who, lest you forget, had just spend two and a half months underground—pushed him to walk as much as he needed. But Peña ran most of it, completing the first half in around two hours and finishing the entire race in five hours, 40 minutes and 51 seconds.
Respect. Fist bump.
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Things fall down the crack in the back of the sofa. This we know. Now though, design studio Daisuke Motogi Architecture have re-purposed that flaw into a design feature.
Behold: the Lost In Sofa chair.
Does Conan’s New Print Ad Mark The Peak Of Owls (EW.com)
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The Sandwich Movie – an animation from writer and director Sean Christensen – tells the story of a very important sandwich his sister made him on the occasion of his first overseas trip.
But it’s not a caption competition unless you say so.
A Dark Cloud Descended On Me (Sunday Independent)
August 1 (Sunday Tribune): We are NOT!
November 5 (Irish Times): We are HOT!
In previous posts, (Irish Times Typo Shame, Irish Times Glaring Typo Fixed (Replaced By Even More Glaring Typo), Top 10 Irish Times Typos of The Last 10 Weeks, etc, etc.) Broadsheet may have given the impression that we thought standards were slipping at the Irish Times. Nothing could be further from the truth.
We also may have alluded to the paper’s central role in the fraudulent promotion of the property industry in Ireland (and its subsequent attempt to control same) during the boom. This was an error on our part.
Finally, our disgust at the €1 million payoff to former MD, Maeve Donovon (and Madam’s current €300,000-plus salary) – as wages at the paper are being slashed and staff let go – was mere sour grapes.
We may be hot but we also know how to say sorry.
