Our favourite bizarrozoologist talks about trust, assisted by the onscreen gymnastics of praeternaturally ripped Cirque du Soleil performers Alya Titarenko and Gael Ouisse.
On Sunday, just before Gravity won its expected slew of Oscars, NASA tweeted stunning pictures of the real thing.
More at NASA’s Flickr stream.
Apple’s new in-car iPhone integrator, launched this week in advance of the Geneva International Motor Show, uss Siri to give hands-free voice command functionality for dictating texts, navigating music, accessing maps and more via a built in display.
Loopy
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZoftCCQtHk&feature=youtube_gdata_player&
RTE One tonight.
Mick Flavin writes:
Serious glitch on Prime Time {tonight]. Added bonus bemused cat [@3.20]…
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More to follow.
Thanks Garrett Rowe, Dermot Ahern Enda Cunningham, Geoff McGrath, Killian Woods and Nick Sutton
Covers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
Crimea River
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[the port of Kerch, Ukraine this afternoon]
The Russian forces, already in control of much of Crimea, took possession of a ferry terminal in Kerch, in the eastern part of the peninsula just across a strait from Russian territory, according to reports from the area. The terminal serves as a departure point for many ships heading to Russia and could be used to send even more Russian troops into Crimea.
Russian forces expand control of Crimea (Washington Post)
Ukraine conflict: ‘Russia has taken control of Crimea’ – John Simpson (BBC)
(AP)
From 1985, an ad for Jacob’s ‘Busker’.
Watching somewhere in Dublin a young Glen Hansard saw his future.
Good times.
This afternoon.
Jack O’Donnell writes:
From the top floor of the National Convention Centre [Dublin] – Lots of impressed Europeans as the EPP [European People’s Party] gets ready for Congress on Thursday & Friday…
Dublin further ‘down stream; this evening.
Thanks Emmet Martin
Dublin Bay this evening.
Thanks Mike O’Brien 4FM
[From top: Eddie Hobbs with contributing authors; Hobbs; Hobbs with Chris Sanders and Eilis Quinlan whose father,former Labour Minister and European Parliament member Justin Keating (on screen) who in 1975 introduced the first substantial legislation for the development of Ireland’s oil and gas; Book cover]
The launch of ‘Own Our Oil: The Fight for Irish Economic Freedom’ by Eddie Hobbs in the President”s Room at the RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin this afternoon.
Mark writes:
In ‘Own Our Oil:The Fight for Irish Economic Freedom’ Eddie Hobbs and contributing authors shine a light on the exploitation that surrounds Ireland’s oil and gas reserves. The authors illustrate their ideal economic model for a healthy and prosperous Ireland, in contrast to the current management of oil and gas reserves in Ireland….
FIGHT!