Polish busker Mariusz Goli does his thing on the streets of Katowice.
His fretwork is somewhat nifty.
Yearly Archives: 2014
Health Minister Dr James Reilly appeared on the BBC2 documentary series ‘Burning Desire’ last night. As Peter Taylor asked him about the introduction of plain packaging he had this to say about the tobacco lobby:
Peter Taylor: “But on what grounds could the tobacco industry/cigarette companies take legal action against your government?”
Dr James Reilly: “They will argue that we are interfering with intellectual property rights. It would be an extraordinary society that would put the intellectual property rights of multinationals over the right to life of citizens and children particularly. This is a nation that stands on its own two feet and we’ll protect our children.”
*cough*
Previously: Remember This Guy?
A vertiginous visitor attraction at La Casa del Árbol treehouse and seismic monitoring station (no, really) near the Tungurahua volcano in Ecuador.
Oh.
The Guardian reports that: “Vodafone, one of the world’s largest mobile phone groups, has revealed the existence of secret wires that allow government agencies to listen to all conversations on its networks, saying they are widely used in some of the 29 countries in which it operates in Europe and beyond
Vodafone reveals existence of secret wires that allow state surveillance (Guardian)
“Today, I begin a three-day trade mission in California which is all about securing jobs and investment for Ireland. From Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park on Thursday, I’ll be here for a Facebook Q&A and I want to hear your questions on trade, investment and job creation. If you’d like to participate, post your questions below and visit again on Thursday at 22:30 GMT. I look forward to it!. “Enda Kenny.
Oh yes.
Thanks Mark Hoskins
More to folly.
Thanks Nick Sutton, Brian Oliver and Pamela McCarthy.
Covers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
ARST ARSW
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Übergeek Tom Murphy took all the lines spoken in English in Star Wars: A New Hope and divided them up into 11,684 single-word clips.
He then alphabetised all 11,684 and cut them into a 48 minute edit of the film, appropriately called ARST ARSW. It opens with all 201 instances of the word ‘a’ and concludes with the single use of the word ‘zone’.
Tom adds the following ‘fun facts’:
The word “lightsaber” only appears once in this film.
There are 43m5s of spoken English, 81m39s of other.
The most common word is “the”, of course, said 368 times.
The word with most screen time is “you”, at 52.56 seconds.
There are 1695 different words, and 11684 total words.
The longest words are “responsibility,” “malfunctioning”, “worshipfulness”, and “identification”, all 14 letters.
Sir, the internet is not worthy.
Related: Eht Aepprs
James McAuley tweetz:
The poor, poor clucker…