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To celebrate our failure to get up on time this morning. Apologies.
Five adorable minutes of sleepytime squee by Compilariz.
Category Archives: Video
St Michael’s Rowing Club in Dun Laoghaire sez:
A GoPro camera at the end of one of the oars caught the action from warm-up to interval training to clubhouse.
Music: I rowed a little boat – John Lee Hooker
Restaurants Association of Ireland spokesman Neven Maguire championing the benefits of keeping that 9% VAT rate.
The #KeepVat9 campaign is being launched this morning.
RAI Chief Executive, Adrian Cummins sez:
“VAT at 9% has had a positive effect on all aspects of the restaurant sector specifically, but also the wider tourist industry generally. This is why the RAI fervently believes it would be foolhardy to get rid of it. Reducing VAT to this level is a real success story so the RAI is sending a clear message to Government saying Keep VAT at 9%”
YOU decide.
A glorious cover of Paul Desmond’s Take Five (made famous by the Dave Brubeck Quartet in 1959) performed by the Sachal Studios Orchestra of Pakistan in 2011.
Before he died last year, Brubeck reportedly said it was the most interesting cover-version of the song he’d ever heard.
More from the orchestra here.
(Brubeck pic: Metronome/Getty Images)
Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz present a new “instructional film” made by The Visitors for Human Collaborators on Edité-Frignim (Earth)
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The village of Poynton in the UK has instituted a style of urban design originally pioneered by the late Dutch traffic engineer Hans Monderman – getting rid of traffic lights, pavements and other traditional road architecture to calm traffic and reduce accidents.
Share play though, in shareness.
Lots of Cars and Trucks, No Traffic Signs or Lights: Chaos or Calm? (Atlantic Cities)
Kiwi motocross freestyler and reigning Red Bull X-Fighters World Champion Levi Sherwood narrates slow motion footage of his favourite aerial trick.
Photographer Nelson Kaso’s excellent tilt-shift video of 10 months of festivals, construction and other happenings in the life of the Australian city.
It may make you forget you’ve already seen too many tilt-shift videos.
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has been watching the sun since the spring of 2010, observing the star’s rise toward solar maximum (the peak of activity in its 11 year cycle).
The video shows the last three years at a a rate of two frames per day. The apparent increase and decrease in the sun’s size is due to the varying distance between it and the SDO spacecraft.
The top image shows a composite of 25 separate images from April 16, 2012, to April 15, 2013, revealing the most active regions during this part of the solar cycle.
