…but it’s fine for cyclists.
This year’s NUIM Galway Cycle , in aid of the Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation, is currently taking place .
Which means high winds, moist lycra and some nasty chafing.
You can track their progress on Endomondo or donate a soggy fiver to the cause.
Photos via Colm Austin (on the right in the top picture with Rory Tierney).
Corridor Digital‘s brief showcase of an internet truism, to wit:
There Are Very Few Things In This World That Cannot Be Improved With The Addition Of Googly Eyes
Look at the pieces, find their shape
I see the partner to every trait
Just like a puzzle with two tiles
If we made a list if would go on for miles…
Róisín O – Synchronicity
Bonus feature: RAIN!
The latest song from Ms O’s first album. Video directed by Myles O’Reilly
(Thanks: Darragh Genockey)
The River Dodder.
SIX inches.
And on the M50:
james halford and tallaforniaDave
Meanwhile
The flooded M50 at Bray, Wicklow by Kevin Boland.
Flooded fields at Ballon, Carlow by Margaret Brennan
Via The Meteo Times
This just landed on our desk.
Really?
REALLY?
*uncorks bottle with attractive religious orderly wearing aqua-coloured veil on label*
(Thanks: Frankie Bannon, Unique Media)
YOU decide.
Jane Ruffino writes:
I know you don’t normally do this, but. I’m off to London on Monday with this software startup I’m working with.
We’re going to pitch to VCs, in the hope that they will give us a pile of money to build out our product (i.e., buy luxury yachts*) and hire a team and keep making stuff that keeps the Hardy Bucks off the streets.
So we had a Hardy Buck and friends help explain exactly what it is we do. Only one person got hurt in the making of it, and it wasn’t a lot of blood at all, and was nothing to do with us anyway.
The easiest troll in the world, in fairness, but still…
This week, 31 year-old college dropout, do-gooder and founder of the NPO Planting Peace, Aaron Jackson – having bought the house across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church compound in Topeka, Kansas – gave it an all-over rainbow paint-job with the help of like-minded volunteers. As a final treat for the neighbours, they installed a 30 foot pole with a Stars and Stripes/Pride flag combo fluttering from the top.
Man Turns House Across the Street from Westboro Baptist Church into Gay Pride Flag (Time)
Tourists have high expectations,
When visiting sunny locations,
But bathers in Chile,
Will find it quite silly,
To see so many dying crustaceans.
John Moynes
(BBC)
