Monthly Archives: February 2012

That’s where Adam Ant got the idea from.

From Dublin Zoo:

Dublin Zoo is celebrating the birth of a Bongo calf The female calf, born to parents Kimba and Sam, weighed 20kgs.

This is a particularly significant birth for Dublin Zoo as the young female provides an important boost to the international breeding programme for this highly endangered species. Only between 75 and 140 eastern bongos exist in the wild.

Team leader Helen Clarke-Bennett, said, “We are thrilled with the arrival of the bongo calf. There is so few of them left in the wild that successful breeding is essential to the survival of this beautiful species.

“The youngster is fit but still quite shy; she has big ears which look out of proportion on her small body but she will grow into them. She is already showing signs of liking spinach which also a favourite snack of both her mother and grandmother.”

 

Because we’re too big, dammit.

The extraordinary ‘bonsai treehouse’ creations of artist, former maze illustrator and architect Takanori Aiba who sez:

All my works are created through my extraordinary fantastic and sometimes even chemical imaginations. However, they do not like pipe dreams. In fact people believe that they are real buildings and spaces because I depict not only the outline but also all of elaborate details in each works. I create image of the side, back, and even the inside of the buildings. My eyes circle around, and sometimes intentionally wander between buildings in the space. Eyes are like those of bird or like those of wind.

Baby, you had us at ‘chemical’…

Above: Hôtel de Michelin, the Rock Island, the Lighthouse and Hawaiian Pineapple Resort.

More pix here.

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Do you like prizes?

Researchers in Trinity College Dublin are carrying out a major survey of Irish travel patterns, as in where you travel in Ireland. You don’t even have to be going somewhere.

Just click this link and you could win prizes.

The survey takes about 14 minutes and 35 seconds. It asks about you, how you get where you need to go to and what that costs you.

Did we mention the prizes?