Monthly Archives: April 2012
Annie Clark (7), won the Nicholas Maxim Special Award for Excellent Penmanship. You may think this is no great achievement is this day and age of keyboards and touchscreens until you find out she was born without hands.
We can now only feel shame when we look at what 30 years of typing has done to the scrawl we claim is writing.
[via Laughing Squid]
At just 133cm at its widest point, Etgar Keret’s House, an art installation squeezed into the gap between two buildings and designed by Jakub Szczęsny will be the narrowest house in Warsaw, Poland, on completion this June.
Three Second Rule by Lisa Gail Allred – harvested from the Youtubes by Robert Popper. who reckons it’s even worse that Maxine Swaby’s Pardon Me.
And that’s saying something.
So It Begins
atKenny & Gilmore had to know Ireland would have better leverage post French Pres & parliamentary elections, yet they still went 4 referendum.
— Declan Ganley (@declanganley) April 23, 2012
Outside Google Dublin HQ last night.
Thanks Ronan Duffy
CHRIS BROWN PUPPIES FOR SALE. GO TO cbbreeds.webs.com
— Joyce Hawkins (@mombreezy) April 22, 2012
No seriously. The tweet above is from his mum.
It would, of course, be uncharitable to suggest that he smacks them about a bit first.
THE NETHERLANDS is on the verge of a general election this morning after the collapse of austerity talks aimed at bringing its budget deficit within EU limits by 2013 – giving rise to new concerns that it could also now lose its coveted triple-A international credit rating.
Triple-a, eh?
The package being finalised is believed to have proposed increasing the state pension age to 66 in 2015 rather than 2020, a cut of €750 million in development aid, a new €9 charge for every medical prescription, the abolition of tax relief on interest-only mortgages, cuts in subsidies to public broadcasters, an increase in VAT, and an across-the-board freeze in public sector salaries and benefits.
What? No household charge? Puh-lease.
Dutch Government On Verge Of Collapse After Talks Fail (Irish Times)
Meanwhile:
As voters in France also delivered their initial verdict on who should lead them for the next five years, and whether they would favor more austerity or stimulating growth, the Czech government was rattled this weekend by popular protests against budget cuts and increased hardship.
Netherlands Pushes for Austerity Cuts Even As Debt Crisis Deals Blow To Leadership (New York Times)
Mark Rutte pic (3DN/The Holland Bureau)
Eau Dear
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Marine Le Pen far exceeded her father’s shocking second-place 16.86% score in the 2002 presidential race. Even if it was not enough to get her to the second round, the extraordinary score confirmed her presence at the head of the anti-immigration National Front party and in France’s political landscape for years to come. A drop in voter intentions for Sarkozy in the final weeks of the campaign appears to have swung to the far-right camp.
Hollande Wins First Round, Sets Up Run-Off With Sarkozy (France 24)
Marine Le Pen Scores Stunning Result In French Presidential Election (Guardian)
@broadsheet_ie pot of gold in the Aviva lockerz.com/s/203371813
— Adrian Flynn (@ageyho) April 22, 2012
