A lovely display though.
Thomas Street, Dublin.
(Thanks Schnobbles)
Monthly Archives: October 2012
BendDesk
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A workspace concept by Media Computing Group what sez:
BendDesk is a multi-touch desk environment that seamlessly combines a vertical and a horizontal surface with a curve into one large interactive workspace. This workspace can be used to display any digital content like documents, photos, or videos. Multi-touch technology allows the user to interact with the entire surface using direct manipulation and multi-touch gestures. We took special care for ergonomics. Users can comfortably sit at the desk and place everyday objects on it.
THE MORIARTY tribunal has awarded costs to the estate of the late Charles Haughey. The size of the costs sought is expected to be in the region of €4-€5 million, according to informed sources.
The former taoiseach, who died in June 2006, was the subject of the first of the tribunal’s two reports, published in December 2006. The tribunal investigated payments to Mr Haughey during his years as taoiseach and whether he had sought to do favours for those who made payments to him.
It found that he took payments of €11.56 million between 1979 and 1996, and granted favours in return. It said the scale and secretive nature of the payments “can only be said to have devalued the quality of a modern democracy”.
Hurray! Justice is serv…oh wait now.
State to pay Haughey tribunal legal bill which may hit €5m (Colm Keena, Irish Times)
(Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
Behold: Yaya (‘Kitty Taylor’).
A year and a half on.
She still hasn’t forgotten the skills she learned in the wild.
Or her hatred for technology..
Thanks Fergus
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Let’s hope for both, eh?
A supercut of futuristic and predictive scenes from sci-fi movies by Eclectic Method
Blade Runner’s Megacities alongside A.I.’s flooded New York and Idiocracy’s run down shanty towns. Some technology predictions in these films have already proven to be accurate and some are still a ways off – or not! … cameras on every corner, oil shortages, massive cultural uprisings in the middle east, retinal scans, X-Rays, flying cars and hoverboards, hybrid humans, robots, A.I., teleportation and so on. Who really watches Sci-Fi for the plot anyway, you wanna see the goodness condensed.
Thanks Fergus O’Neil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8mynrRd7Ak#!
In this excerpt from a November 2011 TED talk, Dutch primatologist and ethologist Frans de Waal demonstrates Capuchin monkeys’ understanding of the concept of fairness.
Watch to the end for the elegant metaphor.