Last night.
Roisin Peddle tweets:
Dublin 4, Beemer style.
North Korea has said it has tested a miniaturised hydrogen bomb.
Suspicion of an underground test was first raised after the US Geological Survey said the epicentre of the quake – detected at 10:00 Pyongyang time (01:30 GMT) – was in the north-east of the country, some 50km (30 miles) from Kilju city, near Punggye-ri.
Then in a surprise announcement, a newsreader on North Korean state TV said: “The republic’s first hydrogen bomb test has been successfully performed at 10:00 am on January 6, 2016.”
It could be days or weeks before independent tests are able to verify the claim.
Last month, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said Pyongyang had developed a hydrogen bomb, although many experts were sceptical.
North Korea nuclear: State claims first hydrogen bomb test (BBC)
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Nathalie Kershaw writes:
This cat ‘Coco’ (above) was found near my hometown [Enschede, East Netherlands]. Story at link below. It has a chip that is registered in Ireland. Contact with the owner would be great though so spread the word…
Reislustige kat uit Ierland gevonden in Enschede (Tubantia)
UPDATE:
Nathalie Kershaw writes:
The owner and cat are back together again. Coco belonged to a lady that recently moved From Ireland to Germany…
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MORE to folly.
Page five of The Cork Examiner on January 5, 1916.
*Squints*
*Click to enlarge
Thanks Andrew Martin
Inchicore Road, Dublin 8 yesterday
New look cycle friendly Dublin?
Not so fast.
Via Cian Ginty at IrishCycling.com:
The Kilmainham Civic Space project, led by [Dublin City Council] City Architects Division, redesigned the street space in front of Kilmainham Gaol and the offices, cafe, homes and hotel across from it…
…The project team ignored feedback requesting dedicated space for cycling in the project and ignored years of complaints to the council from people using the cycle route that taxis waiting and vans loading was common place on the previous two-way cycle lane outside the hotel and offices.
The new design includes mixing walking and cycling on footpaths and crossings; an unprotected contra-flow cycle lane already prone to parking and loading on it; car parking spaces inside the contra-flow cycle lane which motorists must cross to use the spaces; and mixing bicycles with tourist buses in a shared traffic lane.
A call from the NCBI, the national sight loss charity, not to mix walking and cycling on a section of the project were also ignored.
Cycle Lanes Concerns Ignored By Dublin City Council Leads To Predictable Results (IrishCycle.com)
The entirety of The Wizard Of Oz (1939) (that is to say, every word and non verbal utterance plus opening titles) re-edited into alphabetised form by Matt Busey.
A work of such pointless brilliance that one Vimeo commenter ventures:
Anyone Floyd has Pink sychned this up with yet?
The ‘dead’ sequence, starting around 19:40, is especially good.
