Seemingly not, no.
Joe Higgins has just stormed out of a “closed door” meeting of Irish MEPs in Brussels after the EU’s commissioner for monetary affairs, Olli Rehn (left), told him the content of the meeting was to remain secret. He walked out after two minutes.
“What he said was: ‘I could give the party line or share the real info,’ adding that Rehn spoke with a forked tongue – one for the media and one for MEPs.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LCRKWueDPI&feature=player_embedded#!
The potent subtext of debt-crisis ennui: a boon to advertisers.
Last week, we had the Dublin Airport Terminal 2 ad (allow us to expedite your emigration). This week, something new and stirring from Diageo.
Who’ll be next aboard the ‘Take Heart, Brave Wounded Ireland, You Can Do It With [your product here]’ bandwagon?
We’re guessing SuperMac’s.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nH8OC6a618&feature=player_embedded#!
Adorable smiling dog gives cheesy grins on demand (Gawker TV)
Since 1980, Volkswagen in Brazil has sold a low priced compact car called the Gol, named after the Spanish and Portuguese word for ‘goal’, naturally. Two years ago, the company made a one-third scale variant for sub-5-foot ‘little people’ – the VW Mini-Gol.
It’s 2.25 metres long with a 5.5hp engine and a top speed of 27km/h. Aside from adjustments in scale, everything else (seats, dashboard and instrumentation) is identical to the full-sized Gol. So far, only two have been made.
Cute is not the word. Wee is the word.
A squirrel monkey on a capybara.
Three squirrel monkeys on a capybara.
No squirrel monkeys on two capybaras.
And we’re done here.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFk0kAwLiEk&feature=player_embedded#!
A masterclass by YouTuber, Dave Webster.
Artist Jim Kazanjian from Portland creates surreally recomposed digital images of architecture, drawing from literary influences like HP Lovecraft and Algernon Blackwood.
One art critic describes his work thus:
‘Kazanjian’s aberrations occupy a state of material transience: none of the images qualify as photographs, yet each piece is entirely photographic…built upon the persuasive testimonies of hundreds of anonymous snapshots and photo-documents.’
