Thomas Heade writes:
Went to get some frozen berries in Lidl yesterday, spotted this notice. No notice in Dunnes or Tesco. Needless to say, I didn’t buy them!
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A street food vendor in Xian, China creates balloon animals from what looks like sugar taffy.
Possibly more decoration than confection, what with being covered in the guy’s fingerprints and filled with his breath.
From 1984, an ad for Black Tower featuring Leslie Philips.
Arguably, second only to Blue Nun at the time for sophistication.
Putting the ding in your dong since 1967.
http://vimeo.com/94840023
Green Party candidate for Galway City Centre Ward Seamus Sheridan highlights the 23 [TWENTY THREE] shopping centres in Galway and another one is on the way.
Thanks Olaf
Meanwhile in Dublin 8…
Leon writes:
Looks like someone’s not into the Green Party down on Francis St.
Important visitor arriving to @JustEatIE today, welcome CEO @davidjusteat pic.twitter.com/1PrcmU9jqc
— Just-Eat.ie (@JustEatIE) May 12, 2014
.@JustEatIE @davidjusteat parked on the footpath, over double yellow lines?
— feylya (@feylya) May 12, 2014
(H/T: Mark Dennehy)
A short film made at a Kintsugi workshop organisd by Tokyobike in London.
Kintsugi or kintsukuroi is the Japanese art of fixing broken pottery with a gold dusted lacquer that – like all good restoration projects – celebrates the old, the new and the repair itself.
Acquire wherewithal here.
Is this about the Magdalene laundries? pic.twitter.com/78hmAm7Flk
— Paul Moloney (@oceanclub) May 12, 2014
Do Boko Haram care about Twitter? See my press statement here: http://t.co/eRJEDEhgQL #ep2014 @rtenews @TodaySOR pic.twitter.com/xunj76vnqs
— Senator Rónán Mullen (@RonanMullen) May 12, 2014
European Election candidate Ronan Mullen tweets his concern for the abducted Nigerian girls while questioning the effectiveness of social media.
Anyone?
Update:
Cyberbully+ writes:
Photoshop battle, anyone?
Via Allan Cavanagh
Previously: Democracy Now
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From the unfortunately named but otherwise productivity-sappingly excellent Tumblr Jim’ll Paint It wherein folk request the cartoon depiction of bizarre imaginary scenes and jim obliges.
Above: ‘Tony the Tiger is dead’; ‘Alan Davies, pickled onion impersonator’; ‘ Tragic Roundabout’; ‘Madonna drying out cigarette ends under a hand drier in the ladies toilets in Wetherspoons’ and ‘ Morrissey Ruins Christmas’.