Monthly Archives: July 2012


A rather adorable VFX-heavy fan-made short created in three months by Brad Murphy and this year’s graduates of the Digital Animation and Visual Effects School. It’s right up there with The Clone Wars:

C-3PO and R-2D2 embark on a rollicking adventure when the Jawas hijack an experimental Mon Calimari starship.

They certainly do.

awesomer/blastr

Meanwhile, at the end of last year, an extra 7,400 people were signed up to public-sector pensions compared with 2010, despite a staff embargo, according to Joan Burton (above), Social Protection minister. This took the total who have a pension in the public sector to 335,551 for this year, according to the Pensions Board.

 

Gulp.

Irish Economy: Government To Seize €433m From Decimated Private Pension Funds In 2012; Up To €900m Taken In 2011/2012 (Finfacts)

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

Thanks DD

 

Yes, that headline.

He argued that a person who gets into the lake under those conditions would need a bit of luck to survive. He was asked whether the headline implied that the person was stupid. “A man gets into a shark-infested lake, late at night, when inebriated. Would you consider this person to be stupid?” Mr [Peter] Gleeson [Gold Coast Bulletin editor] asked.

 

Sounds fair.

Wait. What?

Editor Defends Luck Of The Irish Headline (Aisling Mockler, Irish Echon)

Previously: Sensitively Handled

Thanks Mark Geary