Monthly Archives: April 2011
Martin Malchev’s Wordle study of the different vocabulary used in ads targeted at male and female children (on Canadian TV) is depressingly predictable.
Advertising win.
Word Cloud: How Toy Ad Vocabulary Reinforces Gender Stereotypes (Achilles Effect)
Saudi Arabia is reportedly planning to build the tallest building in the world.
And could there be a more appropriate, fiscally prudent and not-at-all-utterly-hatstand time to do such a thing? We think not.
The proposed Kingdom Tower in Jeddah will apparently be 1,600m, or a full mile tall. It will cost $30 billion to build and will be nearly twice the height of the current tallest building in the world – the Burj Khalifa at Dubai in neighbouring UAE.
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Broadsheet has been championing the astonishing flavour of O’Donnell’s crisps, the handmade crisps from Tipperary, for some time.
Now, crisp blog, A Blog About Crisps, has given it a qualified two thumbs up in its latest posting.
Delicious, nice and chunky with plenty of flavour… O’Donnells are new to the Irish crisping scene, and I’d imagine it’s quite a high risk industry, to be releasing such a high end crisp into an already saturated market (pun intended) but O’Donnell’s Cheese and Onion are grand…Should Sam Spud and Tony Tayto be worried? Probably not, but they’re definitely worth a nibble.
If Irish crisps were Broadway plays this is a rave in the New York Times.
Prof. Kieran Byrne.
He thinks the Waterford Institute is Harvard.
And he never got the memo.
You know, the one about Lehman Brothers having to close and all.
WATERFORD Institute of Technology (WIT) has spent more than €20,000 on furniture, fittings and security for the office of its president, located in a new building completed just three years ago.
Professor Kieran Byrne has been in hot water before over his lavish suite of offices, after it was revealed in 2009 that a staggering €157,050 was spent on an office and boardroom, including two individual “kitchenettes” which came in at €6,250 each.
Latest figures released under the Freedom of Information Act show that in 2010 the president’s office was kitted out with more than €14,000 worth of furniture and “security access control” worth almost €4,000.
But where’s Prof. Byrne to explain these costs?
Prof Byrne was unavailable for comment as he was in Chicago on official college business.
College Chief’s 20k Furnishing Bill (Jennifer Hough, irish Examiner)
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C&H has gone all bleak, lately.
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Hey, it’s Sile Seoige with Steve Buscemi’s eyes.
Yes, we’ll have whatever Mr le Craic is smoking, thanks.
Random House Children’s Books has just announced the publication of The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories: seven ‘new’ Dr Seuss stories that appeared in magazines between 1950 and 1951 but were never released in book form.
The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories by Dr. Seuss, who died in 1991, will be available September 27. It includes “The Bear, the Rabbit, and the Zinniga-Zanniga,” about a rabbit who is saved from a bear with a single eyelash; “Gustav the Goldfish,” an early, rhymed version of the book A Fish Out of Water; “Tadd and Todd,” a tale passed down via photocopy to generations of twins; “Steak for Supper,” about creatures who follow a boy home in anticipation of a steak dinner; “The Bippolo Seed,” in which a scheming feline leads an innocent duck to make a bad decision; “The Strange Shirt Spot,” which was the inspiration for the bathtub-ring scene in The Cat in the Hat Comes Back; and “The Great Henry McBride,” about a boy whose far-flung career fantasies are only bested by those of the real Dr. Seuss.
The book can be pre-ordered now on Amazon but won’t be released until September 2011.
