Blake Anderson of the (US-only, curse it) Comedy Central show Workaholics there.
He seems really nice.
Monthly Archives: February 2012
From the very cruel Optilliusions Tumblr wherein fake optical illusions are presented as real optical illusions until the viewer grows donkey ears and commences to bray.
Damn you, Larry.
Thomas Street, Dublin, this afternoon.
Thanks Aran B
Arts minister Jimmy Deenihan and AIB chairman David Hodgkinson within the last hour. AIB are handing over (ha!) 39 “major artworks’ to the state including the painting above.
Can you guess the artist and the name of the work?
Lines close at midnight.
The first correct entry ‘out of the hat’ wins a tin of Nunn’s Beeswax.
Nunn’s Beeswax (& Genuine Turpentine) is lovingly made in Kilkenny and favoured by those who enjoy fine wooden objects with a polished finish. After all “It cleans, it feeds, it glows.” Literally.
(Government Press Office/Photocall Ireland)
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at@broadsheet_ie try saying that ten times fast. Another great headline from the herddild! twitter.com/alanjdaly/stat…
— Alan Daly (@alanjdaly) February 22, 2012
The number-loons at Pennsylvania’s Lehigh University economics blog have done some number crunching in an attempt to figure out the logistics and financial cost of actually building a 140km diameter steel Death Star. They figure the Earth contains enough iron for 2 billion of the things.
Now the bad news.
Scaling up to the Death Star, this is about 1.08×1015 tonnes of steel. 1 with fifteen zeros.
But, before you go off to start building your apocalyptic weapon, do bear in mind two things. Firstly, the two billion death stars is mostly from the Earth’s core which we would all really rather you didn’t remove. And secondly, at today’s rate of steel production (1.3 billion tonnes annually), it would take 833,315 years to produce enough steel to begin work. So once someone notices what you’re up to, you have to fend them off for 800 millennia before you have a chance to fight back. In context, it takes under an hour to get the steel for (the British aircraft carrier) HMS Illustrious.
Oh, and the cost of the steel alone? At 2012 prices, about $852,000,000,000,000,000. Or roughly 13,000 times the world’s GDP.
The second Death Star was 900km in diameter. So that’s even less of a runner.
Damn.
It’s from their St Patrick’s Day collection.
We’ll take four.
Drunks Vomiting Shamrocks Feature In Top US Store Clothing Line (Cahir O’Doherty, Irish Central)
Well, it was 1982.
Marvel Comics’ Molly Fitzgerald aka ‘Shamrock’.
Molly, as Shamrock, attended the first ever Pan-European Conference on Super-Human Affairs as a representative for Ireland. The conference was attacked by the Nazi villain Brain Drain, who brainwashed the heroes present to return to their countries and kill the heads of state. Various members of Alpha Flight raced to stop the heroes, and Northstar hoped to stop Shamrock from attacking Ireland’s president. However, her powers made her immune to Brain Drain’s influence, and the president was never in danger.
Via Reddit Ireland
The Profanisaurus of its day.
From Project Gutenberg’s free to browse online copy of ‘1811 Dictionary in the Vulgar Tongue’ by Captain Francis Grose. Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing selected the beauts above.
Then – bearing in mind that this is the language of the early 19th century British underworld – there’s the ‘Irish’ section:
Oh.
See the whole filthy thing here, you clumpish fribble.