Monthly Archives: January 2013


Designed by Kim Sung Min and the winner of a 2013 Red dot ‘best of the best’ design award, this electric pin-up board concept is called ‘It’s Time To Read Me’:

The idea is to make sure the right memos catch your attention. The drawing pin draws power from the board when it is pressed in. A spring-operated time-setting dial activates the light according to the user’s settings. It also controls the flow of power. When the user sets a time, the electricity to that pin is cut off. When the set time arrives and the dial moves back into its original position, the electricity can flow again and the pin lights up.

likecool

On November 22 last, it was widely reported that Savita Halappanavar’s medical notes showed there was no recording of a request made by her, for a termination.

Last week, on the eve of the preliminary hearing of Savita’s inquest in Galway, RTÉ News led with reports that medical notes existed showing a request had been made.

Last night, Paul Cullen, who covered the inquest for the Irish Times, tweeted:

Prompting this flurry:

The RTÉ story remains on the station’s website.

Anyone?

“There is a growing frustration that the EU is seen as something that is done to people rather than acting on their behalf.  And this is being intensified by the very solutions required to resolve the economic problems.

People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through enforced austerity or their taxes are used to bail out governments on the other side of the continent.

We are starting to see this in the demonstrations on the streets of Athens, Madrid and Rome. We are seeing it in the parliaments of Berlin, Helsinki and Dublin the Hague.”

David Cameron earlier.

David Cameron’s Speech On The EU: Full Text (New Statesman)