Author Archives: Niall Murphy

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This month, the Boy Scouts of America organisation celebrated its 100th anniversary by simultaneously launching 3,130 model rockets (70 of the planned 3200 didn’t make it) into the Heuston sky, setting a world record and utterly trashing the previous record of 965.

Scout Jacob Smith was chosen to trigger the launch. Envy him.

DailyWh.at

Great believers (and justifiably so) in the old internet adage (we just this minute made up) that posts beginning with the number 10 (or multiples thereof) are more attractive than almost any other type of post, Buzzfeed presents:

20 foods served on a stick.

(Most of this stuff will probably kill you, but not as quickly as KFC.

Out Of Print sells t-shirts emblazoned with iconic or out-of-print book covers. They say:

‘We work closely with artists, authors and publishers to license the content that ends up in our collections. Each shirt is treated to feel soft and worn like a well-read book’.

For every shirt sold, a book is send to a child in Africa through their charity partner.

BoingBoing

Well, the Big Event at Apple HQ at Cupertino passed off without a hitch. Even Gizmodo was impressed.

Xeni Jardin from Boing Boing live-blogged the whole thing, the high point of which was the new MacBook Air: thin, solid state wedges of want, if you have any kind of Mac fetish and between €999 and €1599 to spare. (The figures are the same for dollars and euro, annoyingly.)

Oh and the new operating system (launching next year), will be called ‘Lion’.

A big disappointment here. We were hoping for ‘Kitteh’.