This lunchtime.
On a lonely bench in Herbert Park [Ballsbridge, Dublin 4]
Brand Ireland writes:
This is the ‘supersonic’ Irish artisan food 20 quid buys you at the Web Summit, disappointing.
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Man O’War
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From a sitting room in “Ranners”
To the technically unfriendly RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.
Summit founder Paddy Cosgrave writes:
Today we are excited to announce the next chapter in the Web Summit story. In 2016 Web Summit will move to Lisbon.
Lisbon is a great city with a thriving startup community. What’s more, it has great transport and hotel infrastructure and a state-of-the-art venue with capacity for more than 80,000 attendees.
Tell my wifi I love her.
FIGHT!
Update:
A response from Dublin Chamber of Commerce this afternoon:
The decision by Web Summit to leave Dublin should serve as a wake-up call to the Government about the importance of increasing investment in infrastructure. It’s also a reminder of how Dublin is competing with other international cities for business
Oh, it’s on!
The Next Chapter (Web Summit Blog)
Previously: Who Took The Web From The Web Summit?
Web Summit Loss a Wake-Up Call for Spend-Shy Government (Dublin Chamber of Commerce)
ASAP Science explains the biochemical implications of 3,4-methylenedioxy-N-methylamphetamine.
Yokes.
How Much?
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Best iPhone 6 operator prices: 3 Ire €1,145 (15GB), Meteor €1,325 (6GB), Vodafone €1,590 (4GB). (Over 24 month term for plans > 3GB data.)
— Adrian Weckler (@adrianweckler) September 19, 2014
…and we’re out.
To the Nokias! And don’t spare the Samsung!
Seriously though, take our money.
Spacey
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Multi-layered CGI composites of ISS photos,and geodata created by London-based fine artist Marc Khachfe, who explainz:
…I was blown away by the nighttime images taken of cities at night by the astronauts on the ISS (international space station) and wanted to print out a large poster of the london one for my office, but I found them too blurry and too small to look good good printed out large format.
The images above (London, Paris, San Francisco and Montreal) while geographically accurate, are augmented interpretations.
For between €44 and €145, he’ll composite the city of your choice and supply prints up to 1m².
We would choose Manorhamilton.
Starshade
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A wise man once said something like ‘There is life on other planets, only not to see’.
It might have been Aidan Walsh. And how right he was.
It’s all down to the blinding glow of stars, which obliterates the ability of distant viewers to see the planets orbiting them.
In this TED talk, Princeton University astronomer Jeremy Kasdin explains a new technology which may change all that: the Starshade – a flower petal-shaped screen that allows a telescope (located up to 50,000km from said Starshade) to photograph previously invisible planets trillions of kilometers away.
(Thanks Helvick)
Bioramas
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Dutch physicist and artist Arie Van’t Riet shoots monochrome x-rays of plants and animals, digitises them and adds colour in Photoshop to create these slightly morbid, strangely pleasing images.
No animals were harmed by radiation, as most were already dead to begin with.
Cold Start
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An elaborate and rather brilliant promo for the Motomaster Eliminator battery made by auto parts retailer Canadian Tire
A Chevrolet 2500HD truck chassis with a body shell hewn from nearly five tonnes of ice, complete with mirrors, reg plate, door handles and hanging air freshener.
Frozen to -40ºC, the construction team successfully drove the glaciated pickup for over a kilometer through the streets of Ontario, highlighting the resilience of the battery (and the average Canadian ass) to extremes of cold.
inFORM is a display developed by MIT’s Tangible Media Group that renders digital data in three dimensions, creating visualisations and models, allowing users to manipulate physical objects from a distance via a moving grid of pins.
The Maui Space Surveillance Complex, which belongs to Air Force Space Command, is home to several telescopes that track objects orbiting the earth, such as satellites and space debris. The complex is located 10,000 feet above sea level on top of Haleakala [Hawaii], a dormant volcano on the island, that is also considered one of the best places on Earth to view space from. This time lapse sequence was captured over a three-day period by a team from Airman magazine, the U.S. Air Force’s official publication.