Lovely jubbly.
Thanks Aidan Coughlan
With the Curiosity Rover making its first trip today, we bring you this wonderful powered LEGO model of the rover created by Will Gorman and Doug Moran.






18 years ago on this day, our Oisín happened to be in Ranelagh, Dublin [at the junction of Oxford Road and Charelston Road], with his trusty SLR when he came upon this scene.
The pictures, taken 20 minutes after the shooting of Martin Cahill, have never been published before.
From the kids’ section of the current edition of Catholic monthly Alive! magazine.
(Thanks Michael Brett)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zXwOoeGzys
High/slackliner and stunt woman Faith Dickey walks a taut line between two trucks speeding along a highway in Croatia toward a tunnel.
Essentially a promo for the handling ability of the Volvo FH truck, the sequence was filmed in cooperation with Hollywood stunt director Peter Pedrero and directed by Oscar nominee Henry Alex Rubin.
On her website, Dickey describes her forte thus:
Highlining took everything I thought I knew about fear and threw it into the sky. To stand on one inch webbing stretched across a void, with all exposure penetrating your vision and unhinging your brain, every iota of your being is telling you not to be there. This is fear and each step across that line pushes it slowly away. This is not a place you can build castles in the air, one can only think about breathing slowly, controlling the movement of your body and the line.

‘Mrs Creep Show”s cat – a Sphynx by the name of Jobie (apparently healthy, well cared for and not overfed) – is quite the looker.
Quite the looker indeed.
More pix here