http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzoXPav7uzs
Dr David Brown demos the Natural User Interface he’s developed for Microsoft Surface 2.0.
Now that’s a touchscreen.
Monthly Archives: March 2012
Thanks Lee Daly
These men seem to be laying tarmac over a triple jump track in Drumcondra. Why would you do that? @broadsheet_ie t.co/bszFTahn
— Niall O’Keeffe (@NiallOK) March 29, 2012
Anyone?
EIGHTY SIX.
Gymnast Johanna Quaas at the Turnier Der Meister Gymnastics Competition at Cottbus in Germany.
She’s also pretty nifty on the parallel bars.
This may be the most horrifically pretentious album review ever published. t.co/sJaHc85w
— Dorian Lynskey (@Dorianlynskey) March 28, 2012
‘Ekstasis’ by Julia Holter reviewed by Jordan Crok and Brent Ables at Cokemachineglow:
The remarkable new album by Julia Holter unfolds within the space of a difference: “This is not ekstasis / This is ecstasy,” a difference of expression that is more profoundly a difference in our being—or rather, the difference that is our being, that scatters us from ourselves and thereby sanctions our existence. This is ekstasis, literally “being outside oneself,” as it was first defined by the ancient Greeks and again by their great student Martin Heidegger (who also called it transcendence): as always already concerned and involved with a world that is “other” and cast beyond ourselves into a past that is no longer and a future that is not yet, we step out of the stasis proper to natural beings and enter into the distinctive play of presence and absence that is proper to human existence.
Oh that’s nothing.
Final Notice
at
Tonight.
Followed by a little hipster music action perchance?
Denis O’Brien speaking at conference in DBS tomorrow. Have to email questions by close of business today. Suggestions?
— Ciarán Mc Mahon (@CJAMcMahon) March 29, 2012
Tomorrow night at the Pearse Centre, Dublin 2.
Acclaimed and topical.
Sez actress Maria McDermottroe:
“She is a countrywoman who is lost and reduced by the circumstances of her life. You can see these sorts of marginalised people all the time and I am always aware when I do that there is a history there. This is someone’s daughter, spouse, or parent. They have lost everything but they keep going. I think the play is maybe more relevant today than when it was first performed back in the eighties, it shouldn’t be but it is.”
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Read the statement by the Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan, to the Dáil this afternoon on the March 31 Promissory Note here.
In short: He’s replaced the promissory note with a government bond (so it’s one IOU for another). This bond is given to Anglo, who take it to the Bank of Ireland. The BoI gives Anglo cash in return for the bond, thus paying off the promissory note payment. Meanwhile, the BoI swaps the IOU with the ECB in return for cash.Where Nama comes into it confuses us entirely.
THE challenge: Can anyone explain this transaction in less than 50 words?
Meanwhile, a welcome Irish Times typo:
Earlier: Anglo Boss Made €866,000 LAST YEAR
Thanks BlackMamba
