Monthly Archives: June 2012

Setting up a metaphor-laden quarter final with Germany.

You may be following our lacrosse coverage.

Conor Walsh, who plays for the Ireland lacrosse team competing at the European Championship in Amsterdam, writes:

We beat Slovakia today fairly comfortably and now face Germany in the Quarter Finals tomorrow afternoon at 4pm Irish Time. The game will be available live online here for €3. We played Germany in the group stages and lost by one goal in triple sudden death overtime. Hopefully we have learned from the last game and will be able to pull off a win and progress to the semi finals on Thursday.  Thanks for the the support.

 

(Pics: EC12Lacrosse.com)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fT_trfdaX4

Youtuber komodoyago (whose colleagues performed this experiment) sez:

The test was performed with a box of camp waste (largely food rests) in a bin bag. Estimated weight 30kg, Size 60x60x60cm. Fall height, about 80m. The lake reacts with violent lava fountaining activity, presumably in part due to steam produced from the organic matter.

Fingal County Council wishes it had one of these.

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Bangor, Derry, Castle Rock: there’s only so much of Stephen King’s Maine to go around. Of course, that’s the way King and his fans like things: nicely disconcerting and claustrophobic with locations and characters bleeding from one story to the next.

To help you keep track of the interactions, swap-overs and in-jokes (the Dark Tower series excluded), graphic designer Gillian James has created a handy flowchart.

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Complete, full sized version after the jump…

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