An Irish made smash ’em up, you say?
That YOU can help fund.
Paul writes:
“Franknjohn is a new game being developed by a group of Irish lads and it’s on Kickstarter now. It looks lovely, I’d love to see them succeed….”
Yearly Archives: 2014
Dammit Boy
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Bowled Over
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A screamy, dude-heavy but nonetheless impressive compilation of incredible trick shots by Australian Jason Belmonte (the current world number one ranked tenpin bowler).
From left: Nancy Poulain, Tiffany Jones, and Dawn T Adams at Glendalough, Co Wicklow.
Fancy jumping into a lake?
Via Bewley’s
“This summer up to 1,000 swimmers are expected to take the plunge into Ireland’s lakes as part of the Bewley’s Open Water Swimmer League. The league kicks off on summer solstice, 21st June, with a 750m and 1500m swim at Lough Key. On 19th July, competitors will swim past the Hodson Pillar in Hodson Bay and through the centre of Ireland as they compete in the 750m and 1 mile swim. Finally, the league will conclude on the 6th and 7th September in the spectacular Glendalough National Park where competitors will compete over 750m, 1500m and 3900m swims…”
Glug.
More details here
Picture: Conor McCabe Photography.
Market Fresh
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Gulp.
WhatGoesUp writes:
“Having failed to buy into the Michael Noonan hype that Irish banks were on the road to recovery, I decided to go off and look for myself at the numbers.What I found was not the picture as imagined by the Minister of Finance. What’s more, in reality, the picture is actually worse than presented here:- The mortgage arrears figures are only for Primary Dwelling Homes (PDH i.e. family homes) – no Buy-To-Let (BTL) numbers are included, which are even worse.This is without looking at the SME lending/arrears disaster in the banks…”
Sources: Irish Banking federation, Central Bank
The trailer for a multi-screen film by Timo Arnali about the hidden infrastructure of the internet – in this case a large data center In Alcalá, Spain operated by telecomms company Telefónica.
The film was made for Big Bang Data, an exhibition running at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona until October.
Hmm.
Olga writes:
“There should be an ongoing page dedicated to the grubby optimism of crap Daft Ads, such as the one above: (I’m still trying to figure out what the refurbishment is.)”
Pope Francis said that staying childless will ultimately bring married couples nothing but “the bitterness of loneliness”.
The Pope also counselled childless couples to be fruitful and multiply, and not spend time raising pets when they could be raising children. He said that while a childless life offers better vacation opportunities, it will end in solitude:
This culture of well-being from ten years ago convinced us: ‘It’s better not to have children! It’s better! You can go explore the world, go on holiday, you can have a villa in the countryside, you can be care-free… it might be better – more comfortable – to have a dog, two cats, and the love goes to the two cats and the dog. Is this true or is this not? Have you seen it? Then, in the end this marriage comes to old age in solitude, with the bitterness of loneliness. It is not fruitful, it does not do what Jesus does with his Church: He makes His Church fruitful.
Maybe Eamon Casey and Michael Cleary had the right idea after all…?
Pope Francis Urges Couples To Raise Kids, Not Cats And Dogs (Maya Rhodan, Time)
Pic: Wikipedia
Some of the ‘ladies’ hogging the limelight taking part in yesterday’s Flora Mini-Marathon in Dublin, the largest charity fundraising day of the year.
Undeniably funny?
Or lacking many of the key elements that constitute ‘funny’?
YOU decide.
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)