httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU8Im-4ACY8
Back when the only Potter worth talking about was Maureen.
And the only car to be seen in was a Mirafiori.
Sez You Tuber TecMovie:
Clips taken from road safety film 1974, narrated by Maureen Potter. I edited out the boring bits and strung together clips with Fiat cars. The original film was obviously sponsored by Fiat Ireland.
Thanks FQ
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDGrfhJH1P4
Three Little Pigs.
Promoting the paper’s “open journalism”.
Which replaced an entire ad break on Channel 4 last night
Thanks Diabhal, Neal Cummins and HuffPuff
Most awesome / unsettling thing I found today. A Cork guard has modded garda vehicles & uniforms into Grand Theft Auto youtube.com/watch?v=MBV2km…
— Diarmuid O’Brien (@DangerFarm) February 29, 2012
Youtuber brianhally1989 has more GTA Garda vehicle and figure mods on his channel than you could shake a baton at.
Actually, it’s the Swiss Protection Sock (€59) from the Swiss Barefoot Company: made with a 50% Kevlar mix that the company claims will allow you to walk and run over rocks, glass, broken porcelain and underwater coral.
Alternatively you could, you know, wear shoes.
Still – loving that voiceover.
God bless ’em.
ALMOST A quarter of pupils attending Protestant primary schools are from Roman Catholic backgrounds, a survey has found.
The research showed that pupils attending Protestant schools are from a wide variety of religious backgrounds, with just over a third (38 per cent) from the main Protestant groupings.
Parents of “no religion” made up 7.4 per cent of those surveyed, 20 per cent came from unspecified Christian backgrounds, while 5.6 per cent came from other Protestant groups such as Pentecostalists.
Almost 25% of Pupils Attending Protestant Schools Are Catholic (Irish Times)
Screengrab: Oxford Dictionary Online
Bob Coggins writes:
D’Unbelievables have opened a restaurant in Temple Bar…
(Mystified by this? The ‘pull hard’ reference is at 2.40)
Image by John Ward via Sean Sherlock’s Facebook wall.
Of course, the end result is that the government appears to be trying to move in two different directions at once. On the one hand, it’s catering to the legacy entertainment industry interests and hindering the internet as the platform that enables new business models… while at the same time paying lip service to how it has to increase such innovation. Here’s a tip: the first thing towards increasing innovation in business models online is not putting misplaced liability on service providers, not setting up a censorship regime, and not removing the incentives for the entertainment industry to actually embrace innovative business models.
Most importantly, it is a disgraceful decision, not because an unprecedented 80,419 people mobilised in the space of a few days and told Ministers Bruton and Sherlock that they were wrong to take this action.
It is a shameful decision because the Government knows that those 80,419 people were right, and have done the wrong thing anyway.
For better or for worse, this is now known at home and abroad as “Ireland’s SOPA”. SOPA was despised among big tech multinationals in the US, who are Ireland’s main hope for inward investment at the moment. Last night [Tuesday], the chief executive of Google, which employs over 2,000 people in Dublin, described moves such as the US version of Sopa as “worrying”. “We need to act now to avoid the rise of this digital caste system,” said Eric Schmidt at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Six Reasons Why Irish SOPA May Not Work (Adrian Weckler, DailyBusinessPost.ie)
SOPA Ireland: Irish State Is Dancing To Record Labels’ Tune (Tuppenceworth)
Damn patriotic, hipster philatelists.
“Celebrate Irish heritage with a little finesse: Unique pendant necklace made from an authentic vintage Irish postage stamp under a hand-cut square glass tile. Pendant hangs on an 18” silver-plated steel ball chain (2.4 mm, nickel and lead free).
Yours for $18 (not including postage)
One of three photos of El Castillo pyramid in the ancient Mayan city of Chichen Itza taken in 2009 by Hector Siliezar. Having captured a lightning flash in this, the third shot, Siliezar was stunned to see a beam of light shooting up into the sky from the top of the pyramid.
A sign of Doomsday 2012?
NASA researcher Jonathon Hill (the bloody spoilsport) claims it’s an iPhone glitch.
…a distortion in an image that arises from the way cameras bounce around incoming light.
It is no mere coincidence, Hill said, that “of the three images, the ‘light beam’ only occurs in the image with a lightning bolt in the background. The intensity of the lightning flash likely caused the camera’s CCD sensor to behave in an unusual way, either causing an entire column of pixels to offset their values or causing an internal reflection (off the) camera lens that was recorded by the sensor.” In either case, extra brightness would have been added to the pixels in that column in addition to the light hitting them directly from the scene.
Man Captures iPhone Photo of Mayan Pyramid Firing Beam Into the Sky (PetaPixel)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M9JHb9EiAU
Substitute Simon Cox makes it 1-1 (with three minutes to go) against the Czech Republic at Lansdowne Road, Dublin, last night.
Includes excellent Arabic commentary.
Meanwhile:
It is safe to say that the coaches of Spain, Italy and Croatia will not experience sleepless nights at the prospect of facing the Republic of Ireland at Euro 2012 when they review the DVD of this frustrating draw.
…having rejected the opportunity to test the international credentials of emerging youngsters such as Seamus Coleman, James McCarthy and Shane Duffy — Sunderland winger James McClean was given barely 10 minutes as a substitute — Trapattoni ensured Ireland will arrive in Gdansk in June as the most predictable team in the tournament.
