Steve Conlon tweetz:
I wonder if St. Peter has a similar liability notice at the pearly gates?
MORE to folly.
Covers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
Minister for the Environment Alan Kelly.
Prepare the popcorn.
Ann Louise Foley writes:
Minister for the Environment Alan Kelly will speak to Miriam about being the minister responsible for introducing water charges and the death threats he and his family have faced.
Panti Bliss discusses being the face of the referendum result…Former Miss Irelands Amanda Brunker, Pamela Flood & Sarah Morrissey will chat about beauty contests and what the win did for their careers.And there will be a performance from The Voice winner Patrick James with his new single ‘Redemption Days.’
Plus three of Ireland’s favourite footballers. Twenty-five years on from Italia ’90 Packie Bonner, David O’Leary & Ray Houghton will look back at our finest soccer moment….
Fight!
Presidential Campaigning Saturday Night with Miriam on RTÉ One at 9.45pm.
(Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie
Representations of famous artworks spawned from the artificial neural network released earlier this month by Google in an attempt to show how computers ‘view’ the world by recognising and emphasising patterns in otherwise abstract shapes.
It’s a little like the human phenomenon of pareidolia except with more nightmare fuel.
It’s called ‘deepdream art’ and it’s all over the Twitter, the Tumblr and the Reddit, should you wish to delve deeper.
‘sup?
Me: “Hey, can I join the Stormfront [neo Nazi online forum] group?”
Pa: “Yeah, you affiliated with any Aryan gangs?”
Me: “Nah.”
Pa: “Religious in anyway?”
Me: “Not particularly.”
Pa: “Like how?”
Me: “I don’t really go to church or anything.”
Pa: “So you’d be Christian, sort of like me tho’. Don’t bother going to mass Kind of person.”
Me: “Yeah sounds about right”
Pa: “Where are you from?”
Me: “Maryland”
Pa: “Alright I’m from Ireland I’ll add you in so”
Me: “Oh cool, thanks pa”
Pa: “Alright then.”
With that, I was free to observe “White Pride World Wide,” where every day 50 mostly anonymous teenage users, 50 mostly anonymous users claiming to be teenagers, or most likely some combination thereof, gather in a rolling discussion of the imperiled future of the white race, the nefarious influence of immigrants and hot-blooded interlopers dating back to Romans in Celtic Ireland, and the dangers posed by Jewish control of contemporary culture.
Yikes.
White Supremacy LMFAO LOL (Joseph Bernstein, Buzzfeed)
Thanks annexbis
By Mick Flavin
This afternoon.
Wynn’s Hotel, Abbey Street, Dublin
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams and his elite female guard members of the Cabra Historical Society detaiing plans for a re-enactment of the O’Donovan Rossa funeral 100 years to the day of the original event on Saturday August 1.
From left: Sandra Browne, Gerry Adams, Judith Loftus and Denise Lofus and Vincent Kehoe.
That man’s asleep at his post.
Have him shot.
Meanwhile….
At unease.
Actor Allen Keating as boy crazy patriot Padraig Pearse in Wynn’s Hotel.
(Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie)
A simple solution to a the postcode problem?
Only you can decide.
Apart from the UK and Canada, no European country nor the USA, use coded grid coordinates for postcodes. France, Spain, Sweden and Germany use a simpler hierarchical code based around the actual post distribution system.
The argument for Ireland and the UK is that rural dwellers are difficult to locate for deliveries and emergencies as they are not part of the town and street system. However, there is a cheaper and very effective alternative – the national grid coordinate.
A 10-digit code as used by hillwalkers will get you to within 10m of any house in rural Ireland and will work quite well even in towns and cities.
When shortened to eight digits as in my address below, the coordinate is good to within 100m, which would be adequate for most emergency services or a parcel delivery in a rural setting. The national grid is free, simple to understand and is printed on most Ordnance Survey maps.
It can also be found on every GPS and satnav system. The benefits are that no codification is required and ease of use. A 10 digit number is no longer than many telephone numbers with their area codes and an added benefit is that one can estimate the distance or proximity of another address by comparing the numbers. –
George Renolds
Blessington,
Co Wicklow,
2982-2139.
There you go now.
FIGHT!
Utterly useless postcodes? Use the Irish Grid (Irish Times letters)