Monthly Archives: May 2012

RTÉ News has learned that Denis O’Brien has acquired a further 5% of the shares in newspaper group Independent News and Media.

The company’s share price rose by almost 15% [yesterday] afternoon in Dublin following a transaction in which 32.7 million shares in the company changed hands at 34.5 cent per share.

This represents a 24% premium to the 27.8 cent the shares were trading for at that time.

Market sources have confirmed Mr O’Brien bought the shares.

A spokesman for Mr O’Brien declined to comment when asked whether the businessman was the investor behind the transaction.

Denis O’Brien buys another 5% stake in Independent News & Media (RTE News)


The Defusable Clock, $43 from nootropic design:

…is a fully-functional alarm clock just like you’d expect (a normal beeping alarm, snooze alarm, etc.). But at any time you can press the big red button to start a scary countdown sequence exactly like bombs in Hollywood movies.

There are 4 wires across the top of the clock. You have 10 seconds to choose the correct wire to cut: one wire stops the countdown and saves the day, two have no effect, and one will “detonate” the device immediately. These role of each wire is randomly assigned when the detonate button is pressed, so it’s a new challenge every time.

Only the electronics are provided. You design your own explosive device. For inspiration, there’s an extensive Gallery of Defusable Clocks.

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A Fine Gael TD has asked the Central Statistics Office (CSO) for information on the number of people who claimed their religion was that of ‘Jedi knight’ in last year’s Census.

Dublin Deputy Eoghan Murphy made the request (yesterday) at a sitting of the Dáil Public Accounts Committee.

He queried whether the Census form returns inaccurate data, as it would allow people to indicate a religion which was not a recognised faith.

You mean like the Pagan Federation and the Spiritualist Union?

Ciara writes:

I’ve started up this blog on tumblr of Things I’ve Found On Top Of Bus Shelters I’ve always noticed the weird things you would see on your way around Dublin on the bus every day and decided recently to start photographing them.
I only have about 12 so far but I thought it would be good to get people to submit photos of peculiar things that they see on bus tops. It would be great to get featured on Broadsheet and get more people involved.

Typesetter Luke Benge of Beat Magazine, one of the premier ‘street press’ magazines in Australia. was about to leave the title and go to New York this week.

“On his last day of work, he takes the Kaiser Chiefs off the cover of Beat Magazine and puts a caricature of himself naked. Sends it off to the publishers hoping that they won’t pick it up and they’ll run it on the 40,000 copies of Beat Mag’ all around Melbourne and sure enough he’s pulled it off.”

 

Beat Magazine Cover Replaced With A Naked Caricature Of Former Employee (TripleM)

Thanks Owen Kane