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A live-action/animation side scroll through some iconic moments in the evolution of video games by (and apparently starring) Joe Murayama of PixelStormFilms.
And how it was done.
The many disguises of one of the droids you’re not looking for by London-based artist Steve Berrington.
Ireland’s European Commissioner Phil Hogan
“It was unbelievably arrogant or naïve of the Government to expect the EU Commission to see the so called water conservation grant as anything other than an exchequer transfer.
Calling it a water conservation grant was only likely to deepen the bureaucrats’ suspicions.
If the government’s plans fail the market corporation in test in April, I believe that the Government will then move to get rid of the water conservation grant altogether while pressing ahead with full water charges.
“The whole issue of Water Charges will not go away. The government can still abandon the concept of charging people for the water they drink and instead look at alternative models.
I suspect the EU Commission’s concerns go even deeper than the grant. The message to Brussels should be that the Irish people have rejected water charges and that no tweaking of an accounting trick can change that.”
Sinn Fein TD Pearse Doherty speaking to RTÉ R1’s Morning Ireland earlier responding to reports in the Irish Independent of a confidential report expressing the European Commission’s concerns about irish Water’s finances.
Confidential report reveals European concerns about Irish Water (BreakingNews)
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
Perth, Australia
The Guardian reports:
“24 Irish nationals, including children, are in a Perth detention centre awaiting deportation after Western Australia police investigated seven members of the group over an alleged suburban roofing scam.”
“A total of 26 people, including children, were detained by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection but two have been released.”
“Police arrested five men and two boys, both 17, on Thursday over allegations they had been posing as employees of a roof repair business and going door to door in Perth suburbs in an an attempt to scam elderly residents.”
24 Irish nationals detained in Perth over alleged roofing scam (The Guardian)
Thanks Garthicus and NiloMcD
This morning.
Abortion information service Women on Waves writes:
“Twitter has disabled the possibility to link to the Women on Web website or to tweet a link to the website. Women on Web was founded by Women on Waves in 2005, to respond to the urgent request for help for an abortion of women in countries where this healthcare service is not available.
The work of Women on Web was recently featured in the New York Times Magazine and in the documentary Vessel (2014) about the work of Women on Waves and Women on Web made by Diana Whitten, also available through iTunes.”
Twitter censors online abortion service Women on Web (Womenonwaves.org)
Previously: Just WOW
UPDATE:
UPDATE: http://t.co/DubHoea8Mm a working link again! Delighted to see @twitter #FreedWomenOnWeb. Thanks feminist Twitter! @abortionpil
— Sinéad Redmond (@sineadredmond) January 23, 2015
While you were sleeping.
Bloody foes Iran and Iraq knocked the very poo out of each other fighting for a Asia Cup semi final place this morning in Canberra, Australia.
It was a stonker.
Spoiler alert: Six goals before the penalties.
Hello you.
Firas tweetz:
Jesus Christ, looking for love, with a full page of classified ads in this month’s Kilkenny Reporter.
http://vimeo.com/117534432
The rush of urbex.
Nothing like it.
Donal Moloney writes:
Fear, panic, danger, excitement, adrenaline, anticipation and elation are just some of the words that best describe the peculiar lure of Urbex.
Discovering an abandoned building for the first time can feel something like this…It’s an unwritten rule amongst Urbex and Rurex explorers never to divulge (even to each other) where they find their locations.
There are many reasons for this, not least it leaves the location a mystery for the next Urbex/Rurex person to discover.Often, the hunt for these places is as much fun as the kill. Also, were everyone to know where these places are and how access was gained, it could cause legal problems for the explorer and vandalism at the location.
Urbex/Rurex explorers also have a rule that nothing is ever removed or damaged on the premises. Obviously this location has been trashed but many other places are in really good condition.