Yearly Archives: 2014

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Mr Harry Browne replies:

The Irish Times reviewed The Frontman. I complained that the review contained inaccuracies, unfounded accusations and failure to distinguish fact from comment. The Irish Times contested that (apart from one minor inaccuracy) so it went to the Press Ombudsman. He decided that my complaint was “well documented” and required “a remedy”. But he said that, on balance, the paper had offered sufficient remedy when it said I could write a letter for publication. I wrote such a letter. The IT published it but added a snarky Editor’s reply saying the Ombudsman had rejected my complaint about the review. That wasn’t true. The paper wouldn’t publish my letter saying as much so I had to make a new complaint. Now upheld.


Mr Harry Browne and The Irish Times (Press Ombudsman)

Previously: Unputdownable

Critic Proof

White Man Unburdens

Pic: Yucatan

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0zgRhyrHo4&feature=youtu.be

[Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, top, and with Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda’s husband Pyotr, who acted as interperter]

Two members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, gave their first European interview on the RTÉ’s Saturday Night Show.

It is bad enough that you pay for a TV licence on pain of being sent to prison in order that you and fellow members of the public be subjected to a news and current affairs machinery that calls for your expropriation and enslavement and glorifies the rule of money. It’s bad enough that you pay for a broadcaster whose chairman was a press secretary to the then Catholic Primate of All Ireland, a broadcaster that sounds bells of devotion to the Virgin Mary twice daily and that habitually presents a bunch of devious right wing fanatics as the representative voice of Irish Catholics, and that automatically pays out tens of thousands of euro when said fanatics take umbrage at being subjected to truthful and accurate description. What might push you over the brink, though, is Brendan O’Connor and the Saturday Night Show’s treatment of Pussy Riot…

The Saturday Night Show: Ireland’s TV Gulag (Hired Knaves)

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Snowy scenes from The Empire Strikes Back recreated using LEGO minifigs and models, baking soda and forced perspective by Finnish photographer Vesa Lehtimäki who started off in 2009 creting dioramas to document his childrens’ toys then turned it into a full scale ongoing art project.

Photographer Brings Movies to Life With Lego and Baking Powder (Mashable)

Previously: Lego On Hoth

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[Ronan O’Gara, brand ambassador for Viviscal]

You decide.

John Gallen writes:

If he needs the product I hadn’t noticed…

He’s plenty of volume, in fairness.

Viviscal Man signs up Ronan O’Gara to tackle taboo topic of thinning hair (Business&Leadership)