Author Archives: Niall Murphy

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We have no idea. If anyone has any suggestions…

Having invited Brian Cowen onto his show for the umpteenth time in three years, and had the invitation turned down yet again, Vincent Browne turned up at the press conference in Government Buildings last night and comprehensively pwned the taoiseach.

The highlights:

VB: You don’t think that you’ve contributed to the screwing up of this country?

BC: I don’t accept your contention – the premise of your question – that I am the bogey-man you’re looking for, no.

VB: Who else in public office bears anything like the responsibility for the devestation caused to this country than you?

BC: I don’t accept that…etc.

VB: The reality is – and everybody but you seems to know this – you’re a liability, not just to your party, not just to your government, but to the country, because nobody believes you…people know you’re the guy most responsible for the chaos that’s been caused. Don’t you owe it as an act of patriotism to the Irish people to get out now?

BC: Sorry Vincent I don’t accept the premise of what you’re saying…

You will recall Vincent handed Bertie Ahern his own ass in 2007:

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Meanwhile, back in the editing room.

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Buenos Aires, yesterday.

Argentinian legislator Graciela Camano has just risen from her chair to confront her colleague, Carlos Kunkel during a session of the Upper House’s constitutional affairs commission. Seconds out, round one:

“Under no circumstances will I allow Kunkel or anyone else to lack respect,” Ms Camano said.

The incident was broadcast live on two television news channels.

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An installation prototype for the Xbox 360 Kinect created by Emily Gobeille and Theo Watson. Here comes the tech:

…using an Xbox Kinect connected to a laptop using the libfreenect Kinect drivers and ofxKinect. The open Frameworks system tracks the elbow, wrist, thumb, and tips of the fingers to map a skeleton onto the movement and posture of an animated puppet.

And get this: it was made in a day. So just imagine the Kinect homebrew we’ll have around this time next year.

Kinect Hack Creates World’s Greatest Shadow Puppet Video (Engadget)

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Pushkar and his old master Pyara Singh offer dentures, extractions and other surgeries on the sidewalk in front of the train station at Jaipur in North East India. Filmmaker Falk Peplinski’s somewhat ironic short film The Dentist Of Jaipur enjoyed huge success at film festivals in 2006 and 2007.

All procedures cost the equivalent of €1.50 and the lads have no time for your squeamish nonsense.

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An unofficial music video for On Melancholy Hill by Gorillaz, synchronised with images of New York City neons, streetlights and illuminated signs. Directed by ad agency art director Chateau Bezerra.

Mmm. Flashy.

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Remember Steven Slater? The JetBlue air steward who lost his shit with a rude passenger on the runway at JFK, grabbed a few beers, activated the emergency waterslide, exited the airport and went home to have sex with his boyfriend?

Broadsheet’s first (and only) Hero Of The Workplace?

Well he’s MC Slater now, bitches. Shilling for US iPhone line providers Line 2.

Right, well, now you know.

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