Revealed – New carpet in the Lord Mayor’s office cost the taxpayer €17,000. #corkecho
— Evening Echo (@CorkEveningEcho) March 14, 2012
Crikey.
Monthly Archives: March 2012
You’ll like this so.
An exceptional stroke of cute hoor-ism.
“Obviously its not 500euro however first decent offer will secure”
Thanks Kevin Whitty.
NAMA has a pop at the Sunday Independent’s Ronald Quinlan/John Drennanmis-reporting of Google property transaction in south Dublin.
— NAMAwinelake (@namawinelake) March 14, 2012
You know what this means?
FIGHT!
Livestream at Politics.ie here.
Taken today.
Delightful.
But where?
Lines close at 4.30pm.
Update: The answer is the bridge at Blue Pool, Killarney, Co Kerry by @iotex.
Go the Squee.
Molough writes:
Re: your previous article on the Old [Ancient Order of] Hibernians’ sectarian anti-gay march in New York. Check it out.
Letter Via Brian Fleming
You may want to watch this more than once.
Momentarily NSFW.
Brooklyn based creative agency Antfood created the soundtrack for this ‘entirely fictional and completely unendorsed’ stream of consciousness Hunter S Thompson inspired animation , directed by Buck for goodbooks: an online bookstore that delivers free worldwide and passes on all its profits to charity.
We dug through the darkest recesses of our minds and studio to create original music and sound design for this Buck masterpiece. Working with squirming, analog-tape leeches, moaning coeds, screaming guitar goats, and brain-exploding psychedelia, we were certainly in our element. Plus, it’s always fun to rock out and get a little weird for a good cause!
If you’re one of those people who tend to lose their phone shortly after putting it down, then you’ll want to read this.
According to a new study, if you lose your smartphone, you have a 50/50 chance of getting it back. But chances are much higher — nearly 100 percent — that whoever retrieves it will try to access your private information and apps.
According to a study by Symantec, 96 percent of people who picked up the lost phones tried to access personal or business data on the device. In 45 percent of cases, people tried to access the corporate email client on the device.
READ ON: The Scary Consequences Of A Lost Smartphone (Boing Boing)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTSuQkd5pz0&list=UU0AGdtfuO-5tKrlw8LxmnEQ&index=1&feature=plcp
“Nobody answers less questions in this House than you do.”
Shane Ross gets stuck in during Leader’s Questions this morning in the Dail.
He makes the point that he read into the record how a Labour Minister (Pat Rabbitte) told the Wall Street Journal that a deal would be made on the promissory notes by March 31.
“Is the Cabinet lying about this March 31st deadline because it’s very important. The nation is watching if you can deliver.”