Not stills from Katsuhiro Otomu’s animated scifi Akira but, rather, digitally manipulated and colour graded nighttime portraits of Tokyo by Masashi Wakui.
The amateur photographer and Tokyo resident’s incredibly rich, filmic style has attracted a legion of fans and would-be imitators.
More of his work here.
The line-up for this year’s Longitude Festival in Marley Park [Co. Dublin] has been announced.
Hip hop Friday, YOKESYOKESYOKES Saturday and come down Sunday.
Meanwhile, at Primavera…
More to folly.
We are experiencing some issues with the Oireachtas website at the moment, we hope to have the situation resolved as soon as possible.
— Oireachtas News (@OireachtasNews) January 22, 2016
Silicon Republic reports:
Serious questions are being asked of the security of Ireland’s websites following a week of regular distributed denial of service attacks against Government websites, the lotto and Boards.ie.
What exactly is going on? In the space of a week, Irish websites have found themselves inundated with distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that once again, as of today (22 January), a number of Irish Governmental websites are down with confirmation from those attacked.
Once the vestige of pranksters, DDoS attacks which flood a website’s servers with fake traffic from multiple points to shut down the website are now cosndered criminal behaviour with those found to be perpetrating such crimes usually facing harsh punishments.
Hmmmm.
Anyone?
Irish Govt and private sites being inundated with DDoS attacks (Colm Gorey, Silicon Republic)
Lotto ticket terminals brought down by cyber attack (Irish Times, Wednesday)
Doubt.
By Rory Bradley.
Rory explains:
I’m not really sure why I made this one…
Thanks Siddig Zeidan
Mark Malone writes:
“Almost the worst little state to get sick…”
This morning.
O’Connell Street, Dublin 1
The launch of the Social Democrats General Election 2016 manifesto.
More as we get it.
Rollingnews
Next Train Ireland is a strikingly simple app that will quickly show you train times for any station in Ireland.
Incorporating lovely graphics and a “modern UI that follows the Material Design guidelines” the app’s features include journey planner and realtime station ‘lookup’.
App maker Stephen McBride writes:
Next Train Ireland (formerly called Next DART under the old Android Market store) is one of the earliest Irish-made Android apps, having been released in late 2009 before Android phones were even offered by phone operators in Ireland.
It has gone through a number of iterations since then but has been a bit neglected in the last two years. I finally got around to working on an update a few months ago and, having looked at the mess that was the codebase, decided to re-write it completely from scratch.
Compared to the official Irish Rail app this new app is much cleaner, more intuitive and gets you the information you need in fewer steps.
Feedback from new and existing users is most welcome.
Anyone?
Apple’s European HQ in Cork
Bonkers writes:
I was just reading about the Apple tax case whereby it looks like they owe Ireland a figure somewhere between €8bn and $19bn, depending on which source you use.
Then I read that if Apple gets landed with a bill for back taxes the Irish government intends to appeal the ruling. That means that taxpayers money will be spent on lawyers to go to Brussels to argue that Ireland should not receive this money. I’d like to say you couldn’t make it up but here we are and its very real.
So I ask what could Ireland do with (for example) €10 billion of Apple back taxes ?And how would Broadsheet readers spend it?
Here’s my attempt-
1. National Childrens Hospital -€1bn
2. Dart Underground and Metro North -€3bn
3. M25 Cork to Limerick motor way -€800m
4. Upgrading our water infrastructure -€500m
5. Investment in mental health services -€1bn
6. Closure of peat and coal fired power plants and replacement with greener energy -€1bn
7. Investment to help solve the homelessness crises -€500m
8. The remaining €2.2bn restored to the National Pension Reserve Fund before the looming pensions crises begin.
Anyone?/FIGHT!
Yesterday: Meanwhile At Davos
(Apple)
