At the Web Summit, RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin this afternoon.
Thanks Aaron Goodliffe
Yearly Archives: 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-Qp7A52Sdc&feature=youtu.be
You may recall how, at last year’s Web Summit, Laura Gaynor wasn’t allowed to interview skateboarder Tony Hawk but she was allowed challenge him to a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors.
Well.
Laura writes:
This year they let me talk to Tony Hawk! Here he is answering the question: will he skate into his 80’s? This video also features several tech guys and Jonathan McCrea (Newstalk, TV3, RTÉ) skateboarding! Would love if you’d check it out and let me know what you think.
Fair Play in fairness
Previously: Hawk, Paper, Scissors
Brightside founder Jonathan Frishberg and the Brightside app
Our Emily has been at the Web Summit in the RDS since Tuesday.
She phoned in the following
So what was her favourite first world problem solving ‘thing’?
Emily writes:
My favourite app I came across over the past few days is Brightside represented by the app’s creator and co-founder Jonathan Frishberg whose stand was situated in the main hall (Angel Carroll, Birghtside’s other co-founder was out on the floor networking).
Brightside works out mathematically using building measurements and meteorological data to deduce where the sun is shining on a terrace or outside a cafe and for how long to make it easier to find a good spot to enjoy a beer or coffee. Just started in Barcelona, hoping to open in Dublin soon!
Pic: Emily
http://vimeo.com/111085501
Paddy Finnegan – A Dublin Busker.
You should be able to catch him in Temple Bar Square, pending permit.
By Peter O’Doherty
Previously: Busker Do
Related: Ban on busking in Temple bar rejected by Dublin councillors (Irish Times)
Good grief.
Topless Irish doctors and medical students doing the calendar thing for Epilepsy Ireland sponsored by FM 104.
From top: Dr. October, Dr. June and the trainee doctors of May with a ‘new born’ plastic baby.
*checks pulse*
A short film of the ‘Speed Of Light’ performance created for the grand depart of the Tour de France 2014 from Yorkshire last May.
Featuring hundreds of cyclists decked out in LED suits with illuminated bikes, the rolling choreography was a collaboration between public art collective NVA and Phoenix Dance Theatre.
MORE: LED-Adorned Cyclists Create Stunning Dance of Light (Creators Project)
Wake up!
Le Cool Dublin Issue 251 cover by stylist Kieran Kilgannon and photographer Andrew Nuding featuring Avice Maughan from Morgan the Agency.
Kieran sez:
“The inspiration came from being a teenager and being so tired on your way to school that you could just sleep anywhere. So we took the beautiful Avice and shot her sleeping anywhere and everywhere.”
Andrew adds:
“We worked with Avice on a really sunny Sunday afternoon. We went to get my car washed so Avice could lie on the car. We also had her lying over a bin – but that didn’t make the cut.”
Fair enough
The Ashers said they would not bake,
A marriage equality cake,
And if their brave stand,
Breaks the law of the land,
That’s a risky decision to make.
John Moynes
George Boole, the first professor of mathematics at University College Cork and ‘father’ of modern algebra, and his former residence in Cork
George Boole.
The first web summiteer apparently.
Barry Roche, of The Irish Times, reports:
“Taoiseach Enda Kenny will today join with the president of University College Cork Dr Michael Murphy to launch next year’s celebration to mark the bicentenary of the birth of leading mathematician, George Boole.”
“Dr Murphy said it was timely to launch the programme of events for Boole’s Bicentenary in the week that the Web Summit takes place in Dublin as he paved the way for the advances in technology that ICT and STEM leaders are showcasing at the summit.”
“Among the events planned for the Bicentenary celebrations is a major restoration by UCC in conjunction with Cork City Council of Boole’s home at No 5 Grenville Place in Cork where he wrote his masterpiece “An Investigation of the Laws of Thought” in 1854.”
Finally.
Bicentenary of mathematician George Boole to be celebrated (Barry Roche, Irish Times)
Previously: It Doesn’t Add Up (February 2012)
Pic via Bill