Monthly Archives: January 2012

This unauthorised, highly detailed, fully posable Steve Jobs from toy company In Icons is due for release in February. Or maybe not.

Complete with interchangeable hands for 1/6th scale replica iPhone clutching and thoughtful chin fondling, the $100 collectible is unlikely to survive a legal challenge from Jobs’ estate.

Pity. Creepy as all hell. But still.

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Previously: Steve Jobs On Facing Death

“We’re all decent skins together. It’s about mediocrity. People who won’t see the faults in each other and most of the people I know who I use this term to describe are in public life in some way and should be serving the public interest but they don’t. But they’re never chastised, punished or exposed because they’re decent skins….this value ‘we serve each other’ …is destructive of ideas, it always pulls the best and brightest down to the level of these decent skins. Anyone who’s different, anyone who has a view that doesn’t coincide with this group view is isolated and attacked. I’m against that in public life, it’s a sickness…I am not a decent skin.”

From [David] Hanly’s People in 1987, selected by RTE Player for the station’s 50th anniversary.

Watch here

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From Come Here To Me:

Irish Rail are currently asking commuters to vote for their favourite station, based on issues such as station presentation and services. A campaign of sorts has sprung up behind Broombridge station. Anyone who has been through Broombridge station will know it is beyond the words ‘awful kip’, a station neglected while those around her have been modernised, she continues to crumble, the very station sign telling you where you are difficult to read.

Broombridge winning the ‘Best Station’ award would draw some attention to the sheer state of the place, and be the best coup for a public vote campaign since the BBC had to award the Wolfe Tones the best song of the last century.

 

Vote here

Thanks Bibi Baskin Robbins

A Swedish woman has discovered her wedding ring on a carrot growing in her garden, 16 years after she lost it, says a newspaper.

Lena Paahlsson had long ago lost hope of finding the ring, which she designed herself, reports Dagens Nyheter.
The white-gold band, set with seven small diamonds, went missing in her kitchen in 1995, she told the paper.

She took the ring off to do some Christmas baking with her daughters, but it disappeared from the work surface where it had been left, she explained to Dagens Nyheter.

The family searched everywhere and years later took up the tiling on the floor during renovations, in the hope of finding the ring.

It was not until 16 years later when Mrs Paahlsson was pulling up carrots in her garden that she noticed one with the gold band fastened tightly around it.

Sweden: Wedding Ring ‘found On Carrot’ After 16 years (BBC News Europe)

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Judas Goats?

From Nama Wine Lake:

“So these [1200], are they Judas goats – a term borrowed from the livestock industry for an animal which leads others to the slaughterhouse, also known as a “Judas cow”, the Judas goat is trained to lead others to the slaughterhouse, walks out the other side and is rewarded for its repeat efforts. Or do people recognise the €18bn annual deficit this country is running, and they see the €100 charge as a necessary contribution to plug the deficit. Difficult to know, but the unfairness of the charge – which is €100 regardless of whether you live in a mansion or a studio flat, earn €1m or the minimum wage, own your house outright or are shouldered with negative equity – really does stand out.”

 

2,100 Register To Pay €100 Household Charge (RTE)