Monthly Archives: August 2012

Specifically a large chocolate biscuit cake with heavenly icing and subtle product placement?

Last night we marked our second birthday at Jo’Burger Town (JBT), Castle Market, Dublin (opposite Grogan’s) with a bit of a ‘get-together’.

Dublin cakesmith Helen Byrne, who has been baking things for more than 70 years, kindly donated the treat (presented above by Caspar ‘the Friendly Hipster Kid’).

We still have the cake.

Would you like the cake?

Just finish the sentence.

I deserve the chocolate biscuit cake because…

Most NOMNOMNOM deserving entry wins the cake.

Lines close at 2pm

[Should the winner reside in Dublin it can be picked up before 5pm]

2.10pm UPDATE:The winner is Lidija Radacic who works at Barnacles Hostel, Temple Bar, Dublin

She wrote: Righty – you wanna a bit of shameless promo? I have full hostel of hungry tourists who will each get a piece of cake and lecture about how Broadsheet is the best thing since the biscuit cake.  Yes, seriously, I will give it away. Nom nom nom.

(Pic:Leon Farrell)

Thanks all (but in particular to Elizabeth Leahy, Sinead Ryan, Joe Macken, Eight Degrees Brewing Company, Absolut Vodka and Chompsky’s dog handler). A lovely night.


 

“Speaking my mind.” What internet users seem to overlook is that the content of public discourse has not until now comprised the first-thought responses of contributors but (usually) something more considered, measured and refined.

…The general attitude – perhaps arising from a fear of seeming out of touch – seems to be that these new phenomena are unreservedly to be welcomed. Recently, there has been a soft initiative within this newspaper to persuade columnists to engage with posters who contribute to threads at the end of articles published on our web edition.

I am resisting, not because I am fearful of absorbing abuse but because I believe these platforms are about something quite different from our conventional understandings of public debate.

…Unfortunately, any attempt to enable society to focus on these questions is itself subject to the action of the problematic phenomenon, being instantly drowned in waves of abuse and derision.

 

And how’s that going down?

Ah

Internet Is Debasing Our Public Discourse (John Waters, Irish Times)

Pic via Communion and Liberation

“For the first time, it will be possible to get a train in Maynooth or Leixlip and get out in Dundrum or Sandyford with just one change. Similarly, you will be able to get on the Luas at Tallaght and with just one change, get out at the new DIT campus or at Trinity College.”
Transport Minister Leo Varadkar

New Luas Link Up Gets Green Light From An Bord Pleanala (Irish Independent)

(Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland)

A mystery foreigner, photographed riding a roller coaster with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, has been identified as a British diplomat.

His name?

Barnaby Jones.

No, really.

British Diplomat Takes Roller Coaster Ride With North Korea’s Leader Kim Jong-un (Telegraph)

Thanks Niall O’M