A mere smattering of the delights on offer at the WTF, Evolution? Tumblr, wherein wonders of nature are presented for your delectation and disgust.
Above: the Shoebill, the red-lipped batfish, the tongue-eating louse, two geoducks, the wolffish and a pignose frog.
Now go and get sick, if you must.
Courtesy of the Northwest Edible Life gardening blog.
They’re not from Donegal. You’re welcome.
Every damn week.
Behold.
Baffled Late Late Audience Guy AND a Michael Collins fan.
It’s going to be a long night.
Largely Indifferent late Late Audience Guy
So When Are You Going To Unleash Magnum On Us?
Awesome Saturday Night Show Audience Guy
Thanks John Gavin
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Unearthed in a second hand record shop in Cork and uploaded direct from vinyl to the internets only today – feast your ears on this ‘song’ recorded to mark the 5th birthday of 2FM in 1984.
‘Gram Blaster Flash’ featuring the vocal stylings of Gerry Ryan, Dave Fanning, Peter Collins, Marty Whelan, Larry Gogan & BP Fallon.
Cover scans: Mek and Jeremy Murphy.
Ciaran Savage adds:
Found this (below) on a board in my childhood bedroom in De Blanch. Anyone know when Radio 2 became 2fm?
(Thanks Oisín)
“The agreement significantly cuts the Irish sovereign’s funding requirement. The government estimates it will have to borrow less than €1bn a year to service the interest on the new government bonds, compared with payments of over €3bn annually on the promissory notes. It also simplifies the complex and opaque arrangements including ELA loans parallel with the promissory notes that have been in place since the financial crisis.”
“The Irish government estimates the interest saved on the new government bonds compared with the promissory notes to be worth about €1.1bn in 2013, €0.9bn in 2014, and €0.7bn in 2015. In 2013, the savings are cancelled out by the estimated costs of liquidating IBRC, but in both 2014 and 2015, the result should be to lower the government’s budget deficit by 0.6% of GDP.”
Which is all a bit ritch.
Fitch Says Ireland Deal Eases Fiscal Pressure, Improves Transparency (Reuters)
Solidarity With The Magdalenes is a Facebook page set up by supporters of the magdalenes.
They will be meeting tomorrow at the gates of Stephen’s Green, Dublin, at 11.30am to put flowers at a memorial bench [unveiled by Mary Robinson in 1996] to those who worked in the laundries (above) in the green.
You can show your support here.
In Cork there will be flowers laid at St Joseph’s Graveyard on the Tory Top Road tomorrow at 2pm.
Thanks Rachel Robinson
Meanwhile, in March
Don’t raise your hand to Squee.
Etc.
President Higgins and Sabina in the Pontifical Irish College, Rome, with Monsignor Ciaran O’Carroll, the college’s Rector, this afternoon.
(Aras/Photocall Ireland)
@lstwrd first call after interview on corruption was from a Garda.He said Clare Daly and I were giving the silent majority a voice.
— Luke ming flanagan (@lukeming) February 8, 2013
Curtains.
*steps away from van*
Sandymount, Dublin, this afternoon.
Thanks Tom Rogers
