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Art du Temps: a mechanical, Swiss-made wall clock designed by illi and Julien Ado.
In passive mode, it’s a rectangular board of articulating squares, moving randomly to indicate the passage of seconds. To activate the clock, you “ask” the time via voice command, whereupon the squares rearrange to reveal a ‘mechanical-digital’ display.
Available from March 2011.
The price? €69,660.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxINUu8AvMo&feature=player_embedded
A subtle homage to The Big Lebowski from the Powerpuff Girls episode ‘Somethings a Ms’ (season 2, episode 26).
Surely lost on the kids. Here’s (a slightly ropey version of) the original:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jNlcrMMZxo
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TuwN0DmNeU&feature=player_embedded
They’re having their first child and they want a company to sponsor them so they can buy a house.
No, seriously.
She can still afford blue nail polish though.
(Nice of them to wear white and pose against a white background to make the inevitable Photoshopping that much easier)
Mr Kenny said Mr Martin was in “no position to dictate the trend of the general election” and his first act as Fianna Fáil leader was to seek to exclude other party leaders, even those who had passed them in the polls – a reference to Sinn Féin’s Gerry Adams.
Speaking this morning the Fine Gael leader said he was happy to partake in a five-way televised debate with the leaders of all the political parties, in either English or Irish.
“There is no Taoiseach contesting this election. If we are going to debate the issues, all the leaders are going to be involved,” he said.
Oh, it’s so on.
(Photocall Ireland)
Or you could just create your own Tumblr-down message.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHhaDwpF13k&feature=player_embedded#!
Monkeys love hipsters: hipsters with buckets of grub.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjl8OIZijjY&feature=player_embedded
Soon, thanks to Michael Martin, this kind of politics will be a thing of the past.
Sidebar: RTE’s hilariously pedantic synopsis of the series.
