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Monthly Archives: February 2012
A distinctly Seussian selection from the adorably disturbing fantasy ‘taxidermy’ of sculptor Carl ‘Biscuitboy’ Turner who proudly presents:
A series of reconstructions based upon records and illustrations brought back by Erasmus P Jiggins, junior zoological officer on the 1863 voyage headed by Sir Bartholomew Scoffer to the remote island in the Pacific known by its indigenous population as Zuzu Batu.
You can peruse the Scoffer’s Island backstory here.
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A fiendishly clever and unsettling method of telling you what size you REALLY are.
Because apparently high street shops are fibbing.
Click here.
Like an old poet.
Squee and his daughter Alice Mary Higgins at the Westbury Hotel, Dublin, earlier for the Older and Bolder seminar.
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
Unrequited
atGerry to Enda: It is a good day, despite your rejection of my love. #ValentinesDay #notmakinhthisup
— David McCullagh (@mcculld) February 14, 2012
Civil liberties were almost non existent, citizens were not equal with women becoming second class while the poor were plunged further in destitution. The history of early Irish Independence is often passed over with a less than critical eye that glorifies state building at any cost. However behind this abstract veneer lies the story of a dark authoritarian regime based on repression, discrimination and censorship. This was enforced by deeply authoritarian attitudes underscored by severe catholic morality which stifled culture and allowed no political debate or opposition of any kind. By 1937 the “The Irish Free State” had created a society that had betrayed the ideals of what many had set out [to] achieve two decades earlier.
Torture, Murder and Exclusion: Ireland’s first 10 years of Independence (The Irish History Podcast)
The relative scale of things from quantum foam to the observable universe: an incredible visual transition from the very small to the very large created by Cary and Michael Huang – updating an earlier, similarly impressive presentation they made in 2010.
The video is just an illustration. Here’s the actual interactive.
(UPDATE: Cary and Michael are 14 year-old twins from California.)
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Outside the Dail within the last hour were from top: Labour TD John Lyons and Senator Katherine Zappone (pic 1 and 2); Richard Smith; Michelle Crean; Chris Wong and members of Noise.
Noise are an “independent non-party political group campaigning for the provision of civil marriage for all people in Ireland irrespective of gender and sexual preference, and claim that the Civil Partnership Bill passed by the Dail does not go far enough, highlighting a lack of rights of Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender parents and their children.”
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
Subdian writes:
My flatmate does not like chocolate. I produced this for her instead, day that’s in it and all. I coloured-in the flowers myself. I think she likes blue flowers. I didn’t have any of those.
Alternatively:
Via Red Cup Parties (Facebook)
Thanks Reggie
Teaghan De Rosa from Stepaside, Dublin, (left) and Sofia Grogan from Blanchardstown, Dublin, hand in a ‘Valentine’s card’ on behalf of SPARK (Single Parents Acting for the Rights of our Kids) to Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton in protest over Budget cuts in payments to single parents.
Five minutes later:
Aw.