Yikes.
Anyone?
Thanks TommyA
Yearly Archives: 2014
Some Shower
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Martina Fitzgerald’s report on this evening’s Six One News overestimated the cost of a bath and shower by a factor of almost 100. €20 for a bath and €12 for a shower.
RTÉ: Not having a great Summer in fairness.
How Much?
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The tuneful ‘Discover Ireland’ twins.
All growed up.
Emma at the Mermaid Arts Centre writes;
“We have a a PAIR of tickets to see Heathers at the Mermaid on August 9. Just complete this sentence: ‘When I think of Bray I think ________________’ Best response wins the tickets…”
Lines MUST close at 6.30pm
The Usual
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Treelapse
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A ghostly infrared timelapse of Mamane tree ‘bones’ on Kohala Mountain in Hawaii by Gary Yost.
Pre-European Chant: “Ku’u wahine i ka ua ‘Ulalena” by Charles Albert Manu’alkohanaiki’illili Boyd.
Wait for it…
A faraway chant of “Shame, Shame, Shame on you” can be heard during a minute’s silence following the unveiling this afternoon of a ‘cross of sacrifice’ at Glasnevin Cemetery to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of WW1.
WW1 centenary commemoration takes place in Dublin (BBC)
Thanks C
Meanwhile…
Protesters outside Glasnevin cemetery (pics 1-2) ; The Cross of Sacrifice (top) and President Higgins with the Duke of Kent (above) this afternoon.
(Laura Hutton/Photocall ireland)
Some of the dramatically-hatted finalists in the Best Dressed Ladyperson at the Galway Races in Ballybrit, Co Galway this afternoon.
G’wan ‘asterik’ hat.
Via Ladies Day
Meanwhile…
This afternoon.
Emmet Keane writes:
“Mick Winters from Kanturk shows the Toffs how to add panache to a Panama after his mare, Missunited, won the Lily Langtry stakes in Goodwood [Race meeting]…”
Paddy Kennedy, CEO of Paddy Power
The information includes names, addresses, dates of birth, and even the maiden names of mothers, which are often used to verify account details. The stolen data does not include any personal financial information. The 649,055 customers affected represented 29% of Paddy Power’s total online customer base in 2010….No customers who signed up after 2010 are impacted by the breach.
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
Spittin’
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PopChart Lab askz:
Who boasts the most Brobdingnagian (i.e., biggest) vocabulary in hip-hop? Featuring 100 meticulously hand-drawn MC effigies, this chart of lyrical locution analyzes the lexical freshness of nearly every rapper of repute—including Drake, the Wu-Tang Clan and cult favorite Aesop Rock—tabulating the number of unique words used in each artist’s first 35,000 lyrics (roughly equal to 3-5 albums).