httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZlLNVmaPbM
Modelled after Danish professor Henrik Scharfe from Aalborg University, Hiroshi Ishiguro‘s android, Geminoid DK is perhaps one of the creepiest and realistic looking humanoid robots ever made.
Geminoid DK has an older sister, Actroid-F – we’re familiar with her work.
Geminoid Clone Bot Hipper than Human Original (Crave)
Mick Wallace went on Liveline this afternoon to defend his personal dress code
Joe Duffy: “Now apparently the dress code is that you should wear a jacket, whatever about an open-neck shirt. Did anyone say anything to you about not wearing a jacket?”
Wallace: “Well, yeah, I mean, they told us that they would like us to wear a jacket but I don’t really wear jackets, Joe, much.”
Duffy: “Who told you they would like you to wear a jacket?”
Wallace: “Ah, I don’t know the names of the people in there, Joe, yet, em, but em, you know, we were told that it was common procedure. But I don’t, I don’t wear jackets inside, and I mean I rarely even wear them outside, bar if it’s actually raining, so I don’t really see much point and eh. But that’s just, you know, me. But it’s just, I mean, if people want to wear jackets I don’t have a problem with it either…”
[later]
Listener John O’Donovan in Cork: “We’ll have to differ as regards the dress code. If you want to be taken seriously you should dress like everybody else. I would like to see you the next time on Oireachtas report wearing a shirt and tie and I’d say you would look very well.”
Wallace: “… I could wear a three-piece suit and I could be a complete gombeen. Are you telling me that they’d take me more serious even as a gombeen with a three-piece suit on me?
“Let me tell you something John. There were 13 and a half thousand people in Wexford voted for me and I can tell you that the vast majority of them would much rather see Mick Wallace change politics than politics change Mick Wallace.”
Duffy: “Have you ever…”
Wallace: “Have I ever worn a suit? Yes. I wore a suit five times in my life. The last time was 30 years ago at my father’s funeral and I never wore a suit again… I accepted the convention at the time, which I don’t do now.”
First email:
Second email:
Look, they’ve got the same speech writer:
“I believe that, for Ireland, this current crisis is the darkest hour before the dawn; that we have a generational lightness of soul; that in the long Hibernian nights on the western edge of Europe, we remembered the light that went before, imagined the light to come; that we are a people looking always and ever to the new possibilities of a new day. And that new day is here – a bright new day when there is no gap, when the people and their government are one again; a day when, for our people, united in our cause.
“Seamus Heaney says: ‘You have to try to make sense of what comes, remember everything and keep your head.’
We will. Now, together and for our country, let us believe in our future. For Ireland and for each other, let us lift up our heads, turn our faces to the sun, and as has already been said, hang out our brightest colours.”
Enda Kenny, speaking to the Dail this afternoon.
Previously: Who Writes This Crap
Artist, Clement Valla captures surrealist images by zooming into Google Earth locations at just the right angle to reveal flattening and warping effects caused by limitations in the 3D mapping technology.
“The images are screenshots from Google Earth with basic color adjustments and cropping. I am collecting these new typologies as a means of conservation – as Google Earth improves its 3D models, its terrain, and its satellite imagery, these strange, surrealist depictions of our built environment and its relation to the natural landscape will disappear in favor of better illusionistic imagery.”
“The outgoing regime indulged the profiteering speculator and the grasping bankers, imprisoning a generation of young working people in monstrous mortgages, now in negative equity. And when that greedfest inevitably choked on its own excess, it treacherously connived with the EU, IMF and the ECB to save the skins of the major European banks that had their snouts deep in the feeding trough that was the Irish property market, where they slurped as frenetically as any Fianna Fáil developer or big Irish banker.
“And for this, and the crash that inevitably resulted, now we see the savage attacks on the living standards of our people which this nominee for government intends to continue. They attack public services, they steal from the disabled and the poor. A revolution would overturn and reverse all that, but what this nominee for taoiseach proposes is to confirm and reinstate the discredited programme by a discredited government. The poisonous cocktail of austerity drawn up, concocted by the witch doctors in Brussels and in Frankfurt because of the sickness of the European financial system is to continue to be force-fed to the Irish people by this new proposed government.
“Nearly 100 years ago, the forebears of today’s speculating European financiers, and their political clients, plunged Europe into war in a vicious competition for markets, for raw materials, and profits. The Irish parliamentary party of the day will forever be remembered in infamy for its campaign to dragoon a generation of youth to feed the insatiable appetite of the imperial war makers.”
Blimey.
“I am hoping that Enda Kenny will be brave when dealing with our European partners. Now, I have nothing against Europe. I have lived in Holland, I have lived in Spain, I have lived in Germany, and I have lived in Great Britain, but all I know is, if I fall on hard times – “
[Growing laughter at the mention of Holland]
“Well all I know is one thing for a start. The people of Roscommon South Leitrim, we’d like to be shown a little bit of respect, that ye’d actually keep quiet while I was talking.”
