No, seriously.
From Vertu, Nokia’s ‘Tim Nice-But-Dim’ luxury subsidiary.
Boing Boing’s Bob Beschizza sums it up with admirable restraint:
As the European cellular industry’s supernumerary nipple, Vertu has long specialized in calculator-display brickphones that look like dragon poo rolled in gemstones. It lumbers along the dried slugtrail of progress, having just announced its first touchscreen Symbian handset – sure to be an LG Prada-killer!
“Everything. All external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure. These things just fall away in the face of death leaving only what is truly important.”
The Apple icon as rendered by Dublin-based Igloo Animations, the people behind that lovely Stephen Fry cartoon.
He’s getting married.
Kevin Sheridan writes:
Hardly anything new about another shite JobBridge ad. But the skillset learned in this one is a joke. ‘Checking with customers to ensure that they are enjoying their meals’, ‘Formal training in making coffee’ and training
in reading menus to customers. To top it all off you’d be based in Tuam. Rant over, I feel better, thanks for listening
Dublin Airport this afternoon.
Top pic: Steven Walsh from Ballinasloe, Co Galway waits for his flight to Budapest, Hungary, where he is studying veterinary science; Pic 2 and 3: unknown; Pic 4-6: Bernadette and Tony Kelly from Foxrock, Co Dublin wave goodbye as their daughter Anne and their three grandchildren disappear through security. Anne is living in Dubai and may be there for another five years and Pic 7: Ioan Mares says goodbye to his partner Andrea Haures, who is flying home to Bucharest, Romania.
It literally tipped over.
Achill Island tourist office.
So It’s New Year’s Eve 2012 in Lahore, Pakistan, and channel City42’s man on the street Asad Sahi is reporting live from a throng of noisy revelers.
Like a boss.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35PrQ6S6tk8&feature=youtu.be
Filmed on the longest day of 2010 (June 21) and freshly uploaded.
The bench beside Baggot Street Bridge gets many and varied visitors. This film captures some of the people that passed by and others that used the bench. Arguing couples, tourists, dog walkers, smokers, children and people just taking some time out..
Music by Cormac Phelan
Bonus feature: The thoughtless Coke can lady:
Oh, the humanity.
No, really.
Martin Coughlan writes:
Taken about an hour and a half ago by my friend Saima Ar, who swears it is genuine. I can’t make out what they’re sitting on but it looks like polystyrene.
More as we get it.
