Monthly Archives: June 2011

Taken literally 20 minutes ago in Carnew Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin 7 by ‘Eif C’ from her bedroom window.

But don’t worry. They’re just extras filming ‘Shadowdancer‘ about a female IRA member (played by Gillian Anderson) who turns informer. Scully? Tarred and feathered? We’d pay good money to see that.

Carnew Street?

That’s right. It’s where they filmed The Spice Girls video ‘Stop (Right Now)’:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xusHzd3d8qY&feature=player_embedded

Thanks Jo Hickey

 

The look that says ‘I’m sorry that everyone now knows I can’t keep it in my trousers’.

It’s always the same look.

Clockwise from top left, Representative Anthony Weiner of New York, former Gov. James McGreevey of New Jersey, former Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York, former Representative Eric J. Massa of New York, President Bill Clinton and former Senator John Ensign of Nevada.

That Look, That Weiner-Spitzer-Clinton Look (New York Times)

Kranium – a cardboard bike helmet by student designer Anirudha Surabhi – absorbs four times more impact energy than the standard polystyrene equivalent.

It also lasts longer. One Kranium was apparently smashed five times in a row and still passed the British Standard (EN 1078) test.

A no-brainer?

Cardboard Bike Helmet Better than Plastic (Wired)