Author Archives: Niall Murphy

On March 1st , 2011 a fast moving solar wind stream impacted Earth causing a G1 geomagnetic storm which hit during daylight hours for all of the UK and Ireland. What began as an interesting surge in activity turned into a high alert event when the KP reached a value of 6 with a south tilting Bz component.

Quite.

More to the point, photographer Martin McKenna was out on the Antrim coast taking pictures of it.

Full gallery at NightSkyHunter.

(Thanks CairoTango)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpdYKamOjUo

The music: Sebastian Bender plays his old Gameboy.

The words: Gameboy…Word – a typographic of original Gameboy titles by DeviantArtist, Mike Watts.

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIayeao7iks

Twisternederland, Broadsheet’s favourite fail compiler (those other fail compilers meant nothing – we were thinking of Twister the whole time) has just released this epic selection featuring the most teeth-shattering, nad-mashing moments of the last two years.

It is a thing of horrible, horrible beauty.

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o69IxYmHeuw

The spectacularly handled Wubbo Ockels – professor of aerospace and the Netherlands’ first astronaut – has spent 13 million euro developing a six-wheel, 23-passenger electric ‘bus’ with a top speed of 155mph.

The monster debuts in May at a trade show in Dubai – global nexus of what-the-hell-were-you-thinking.

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Yesterday, we posted a picture of Sile Seoige with Steve Buscemi’s eyes.

It was horrible.

Still, if you’re into that sort of thing, (and we are), Chicks With Steve Buscemeyes is a website filled with pictures of female celebrities with Steve Buscemi’s eyes.

Steve Buscemi portrait by Liz Lomax