Monthly Archives: February 2012

This morning

This evening.

When it’s ‘welfare control measures’, silly.

Fiaro Myles writes:

And all it took was pointing out that, er, welfare fraud prevention did not in fact lead to €645m in savings last year.

Best guess it was more like €26m (see here, here, here and ah sher, since it was the source for the original article, here). Fair play to the IT  for correcting it, but I wonder why they got it wrong in the first place?

 

Earlier: Celebrating The New Informer Culture

The Minister for Research and Innovation Sean Sherlock (above) said he “welcomed” a decision from the European Court of Justice which ruled that social networks cannot be obliged to install a filter for user-generated content to prevent copyright infringement, saying it will guide Irish courts when looking into similar matters.

 

Minister Welcomes European Court Ruling Against Filtering Content (Silicon Republic)

Acta March in Cork On Saturday

A petition, uploaded in the last 24 hours, seeking justice for Kate Fitzgerald and, so far, signed by 127 people (many of them Irish Times’ readers) calling on ‘the paper of record’ to offer:

i) An appropriate clarification or apology [for the redaction of Kate’s article]

ii) A concrete commitment to help promote awareness and understanding of mental health issues, particularly in the workplace environment

Sign here

Previously

Why the hell not?

Youtuber MJCJMJCJM (this is the only thing uploaded on his/her channel) sez:

This is a section of a larger project (i.e. all the Bond films at once) designed to give a feeling for the entire experience.
It is also quite odd.

Yes it is. The 22 MGM lions at the start are very impressive though.

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