Monthly Archives: January 2013

What might have been over the Liffey.

Sibling of Daedalus writes:

Today is the 105th anniversary of opening of Sir Hugh Lane’s Municipal Gallery of Modern Art (in temporary premises in Clonmell House, 17 Harcourt St)
I thought some Broadsheet readers might like this pic of what was intended to be the original location for the gallery, designed by Lutyens (who also designed the War Memorial at Islandbridge) and spanning the River Liffey just down from the Ha’Penny Bridge. More about what happened to the plan here

How about Le Cooler?

We have one – yes, ONE – box of Le Cool Dublin’s Box of Cool (Valentine’s Edition) worth a heart-throbbing €25 to give away.

If you only get one box of cool this Valentine’s make sure it’s this one.

Packed to the gills with more damn hipster love-centred accoutrement than is perhaps necessary it tells your loved one, in no uncertain terms: I dig you. You’re cool .

To enter just finish this sentence:

I would like to give my partner a Le Cool box of cool owing to the fact that…

Lines close at 4pm (winner announced at 5pm)

The Le Cool ‘Box of Cool’ (Designist.ie)

She doesn’t even have a name.

Jean Bourke writes:

I found a dog on Sunday [January 27] beside the Ringsend toll bridge (East link) on the south side. We’ve been looking after her since then. The vet says she is probably about 2 years old and really well looked after but they don’t know her. We rang the gardai, the pound and the DSPCA and put ads up everywhere we can online, including lost.ie. We’ve also put posters up all around and talked to people in the area in case someone recognised her.

She really is a lovely well behaved dog and very well trained. She’s cuddly and affectionate and must be missing her family, and they her.We really can’t keep her because of where we live though we’d love to. The best thing for her would be to find her family again.

Any help you can give us in tracking down her family would be really great.  Her owner might not be online much but she is such a friendly memorable dog that someone may recognise her.

Anyone?

Stefan Mitchell writes|:

You kindly featured Reveal Ireland before.Since then we’ve taken on board the Broadsheet user comments as well as feedback from NDRC LaunchPad and have developed a 5 Phase development plan that we hope will transform the tourism Irish information market.

While €2.5 million is spent rebranding Ireland.com, it’s worth noting Reveal Ireland was, to date, built on less than a €10,000 development budget. But we would like to take the site to the next level and blow DiscoverIreland and Ireland.com out of the water with our innovations rather than budgets.

All we need is a dedicated and talented developer to come on board and implement them. The successful candidate will effectively become a co-founder of the business. He/she will gain an equity share/profit share of the business.

Reveal Ireland is just the first step in a European wide expansion programme. It’s an exciting project that will interest developers looking to prove that an Irish, and in the future European, tourism site can be built for a fraction of the cost of the government-run sites. Our business model is unique and there is substantial revenue potential.

I’m sure equity-share jobs are not high on your priority list but I thought for a project such as this, it may appeal to the Broadsheet user base. Contact: stefan.mitchel@revealireland.ie 

 

Previously: Discovering Reveal Ireland

Interesting vacancies marked ‘Broadsheet Job Club’ broadshee@broadsheet.ie. No cost.

 


“DARPA developed the 1.8 gigapixel camera so it can record at 20,000 feet, from the Hummingbird UAV, scanning 25 square miles of ground in one shot. The detail is scary, with objects as small as six inches picked up. And it’s all done using the equivalent of 368 image sensors like that found in your mobile phone”.

And this is just phase one. Coming soon: the ‘ultimate home’ for ARGUS – the Solar Eagle UAV – capable of staying in the air for years at a time, transferring 600GB of data per second.

Watch the skies.

stuff.tv

(Thanks Aaron McAllorum)