Yearly Archives: 2013

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Redditor and colorisation expert thehatersalad responds to a request from fellow Redditor f2ISO100 to fix a damaged picture of her 83 year-old grandmother – not only restoring and colourising the 60 year old photo, but also documenting the entire two and a half hour process in timelapse (deeply satisfying if you’re any class of a neat-freak.)

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‘I don’t know what kind of emotion you hope to elicit with these,’ wrote a clearly stunned f2ISO100 on receipt of the restored photo, ‘but you made me catch my breath. I feel — for the first time — like I got to see her, back in time. This is so, so beautiful. Thank you so much!”

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druryDrury Street Bike Park, Dublin.

Stephen Rodgers writes:

Just a little note of warning to anyone using Drury Street Bike Car Park.. I just witnessed a guy with a bolt cutters trying to get the lock off a bike at lunch time today. Luckily he was disturbed and ran away. Worth noting though that They obviously have their eye on the place.

 

Pic: DublinCityCycling.ie

9/7/2013 Land Rezoning Corruption Cases

 

Frank Dunlop admits he obscured diary entries (RTE News)

Previously: What’s The Time?

(Laura Hutton / Photocall Ireland)

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“It is outrageous that taxpayers money has been spent on a Report that Minister [Pat] Rabbitte claims ‘looks at the entire broadcasting landscape’ but which does so only through the blinkered view of RTÉ and its Government owner.

The funding model proposed is in effect a “Montrose Tax” which will prop up RTÉ and effectively destroy the diverse broadcasting sector of which Ireland can be justifiably proud and which employs over 1500 people in counties throughout Ireland.”

John Purcell, chairman of the Independent Broadcasters of Ireland

John Gallen writes:

The Independent Broadcasters of Ireland (IBI), the organisation that represents independent radio stations in Ireland, has hit out at the BAI Review of Funding for Public Service Broadcasting by calling it a “whitewash.”

According to the IBI the review fails to recognise the value of public service content on independent radio stations and is “throwing good money after bad in suggesting additional funding should be provided to RTÉ.”

FIGHT!

IBI Lashes Out at BAI Funding Report (Adworld.ie)

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Sisters Rachel and Eliza Hurwitz’s ironic redux of Alanis Morissette’s famously irony-lite classic.

Ironically unaware (or ‘ironically unaware’) that they’ve made Ironic less ironic by adding irony.

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