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Monthly Archives: March 2013
The adventures of Russian daredevil, Mustang-Wanted who – among other insane hobbies – likes to hang from the side of tall buildings with one hand.
Adventurama
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Toronto based artist Spencer Duffy’s adorable mashup of two of the best cartoon series on TV.
RTÉ reports:
“The report was given to Gerard O’Donnell this morning by Tony Canavan, the chief operating officer of the HSE’s Galway-Roscommon Hospital Group. Praveen Halappanavar was not present as he has declined the HSE’s request to receive the report personally from the executive’s representative. Mr Halappanavar and his solicitor will review the report and decide if they wish to make any observations on it to the HSE review ream, before the final report is published.”
Husband receives Savita Halappanavar draft report from the HSE (RTÉ)
(Asia Press)
The bishops have come out in force,
Against what? Marriage rights. Why, of course,
They cannot conceive,
Of Adam and Steve,
So it seems Church and State must divorce.
John Moynes
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
Spare a thought.
Kevin Sammon writes:
I can’t sleep thinking about these poor families that are desperate to move into the Ranelagh [Dublin] area.
Richard Griffiths (above left), Uncle Monty in Withnail and I (1987), has died aged 65.
As youths he made us weep in video shops.
Richard Griffiths, star of The History Boys and Harry Potter, has died aged 65 (Telegraph)
Barking
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Siiting in for John Waters at the Irish Times today.
Gavin Duffy (above).
He’s not just a dragon.
Amazingly, our species is going to end up at a destination that was mapped out for us, thousands of years ago, in the scriptures of the world’s major faiths. Christians and Muslims called it Heaven, Buddhists called it Nirvana and Hindus named it Moksha.
You have got to ask yourself is this all one hell of a coincidence or one heavenly divine plan. So did God create us or did we create God? It actually may not matter because a consequence of having computing intelligence is that we would seek a god.
When our species acquired computing intelligence was that an act of God or an act of nature? A divine intervention or a freak of genetics? That is for each of us to decide.
We’re in.
Human consciousness was always going to require a god (Gavin Duffy, irish Times)
(Wanderley Massafelli/Photocall Ireland)
Photographer David Orias combines slow shutter speeds with precise camera movements to capture these remarkable views of the Pacific waves off the coast of California. Sez he:
I am often asked where the colors on my waves come from. I shoot mostly at dawn and the geography of the location allows higher ambient light levels before the full illumination by the sun. Colors are created by different weather conditions, amount of clouds, or even smoke in the air from local wildfires which are often prevalent.
More here.