LS3, the successor to Big Dog, a quadruped robot developed by Boston Dynamics, gets a first taste of military action at RIMPAC2014 – the multinational maritme war games in Hawaii.
Seamas O’Reilly writes:
“Watching Straight Outta LA, Ice Cube’s documentary about the Oakland Raiders. Late on, Cube conveys hip hop becoming a worldwide business at the end of the eighties by depicting himself on three global currencies; a hundred dollar bill, some yen, and ten of the aul fellas. Those first few punts must have meant a lot to him…”
Motivational sticky notes left on commuter trains by UK writer and artist Joe ‘October Jones’ Butcher (commuter train doodler and the author of Text From Dog)
Castle/Main Street, Bray, County Wicklow this evening.
More as we get it.
Via Gavin Dowd
Update
Via Annie Aura
Via Beccal Quinn
Meanwhile, also in Bray
Eoin Banahan writes:
Bray head on fire too
Sir Nigel Rodley
Over the last two days the UN Human Rights Committee in open hearings in Geneva, Switzerland has been examining Ireland’s human rights record.
The committee’s chairman Sir Nigel Rodley closed proceedings today with an address that included the following..
Ireland’s treatment of women:
“the Magdalene Laundries, the Mother and Baby Homes, the child abuse, the symphysiotomy – it’s quite a collection and it’s a collection that has carried on [for a] period that it’s hard to imagine any state party tolerating. And I guess I can’t prevent myself from observing that [they] are not disconnected from the institutional belief system that has predominated in the state party.”
On Ireland’s laws on women’s reproductive rights:
“the recognition of the primary right to life of the woman who is an existent human being has to prevail over that of the unborn child and I can’t begin to understand by what belief system the priority would be given to the latter rather than the former. It is good to see that in 2013 at last that is clearly being clarified. I’m sorry that the clarification does not extend to the health of the woman.”
On the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act:
“Life without quality of life is not something many of us have to choose between, and to suggest that regardless of the health consequences of a pregnancy a person may be doomed to continue it at the risk of criminal penalties is difficult to understand, even more so arguably for rape where the person doesn’t even bear any responsibility and is by the law clearly treated as a vessel and nothing more.”
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*thudini*
atJust spoke to new Gaeltacht Minister @Joe_McHugh_TD, he says his lack of Irish will not hold him back in his new position
— Barry Whyte (@BarryWhyte85) July 15, 2014
TROID!
Shop Street, Galway this afternoon.
A tradition as old as the city itself.
For pity’s sake RUN.
Thanks Murphy
X-Ray Toys
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From a series of pleasing, artificially coloured x-rays of electronic toys by Sydney-based artist Brendan Fitzpatrick.