Treatment of asylum seekers (Irish Times letters page)
Previously: Deaths Of Asylum Seekers
British Prime Minister David Cameron and NI Secretary of State Theresa Villiers being welcomed by First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness in the shadow of Harland & Wolff’s cranes on arrival at Titanic Belfast earlier.
Via Naomi McCafferty
“Two researchers, [former Trinity College lecturer] Mark Graham and Stefano De Stabbata, at the Oxford Internet Institute, have depicted the world’s “Internet empires” in a map, above. The map shows each nation’s most popular website, with the size of nations altered to reflect the number of Internet users there.”
“The map makes for a brief, informative look at how geographic—and universal—certain web tastes and habits are.”
They also created this old timey map-style, below:
Gnarly.
Previously: Twitter Hate In The USA
Age of Internet Empires: One Map With Each Country’s Favorite Website (The Atlantic)
New Zealand’s North and South Islands.
FIGHT!
The two main islands have been called the North Island and the South Island. They have also appeared that way on maps and charts. But in recent years, officials discovered an oversight: the islands had never been formally assigned the monikers.
…the Maori names for the islands had been the same since Europeans first arrived, but the English names had changed over time. On some early maps, he said, the islands were called New Ulster and New Munster, after the Irish provinces. The South Island was also sometimes called the Middle Island, a reference to the much smaller Stewart Island, which is even further south.
New Zealand forgot to name its main islands (Guardian)
Thanks Mark Geary
(Stephanie Meehan,top, following a meeting with Enda Kenny at government buildings yesterday and, above with her late partner Fiachra and their daughter Cerys at the High Court in May.)
“The price Stephanie has paid is more than anyone should have to bear and every resident owes her a debt of gratitude we can never repay.We have no doubt that Fiachra is proud of her.”
Priory Hall Residents’ Committee
Martin McAleese to oversee Priory Hall deal implementation as agreement reached (RTE)
Previously: Dear Enda
(RTE/Photocall Ireland)
Crazy 4 Gary
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Irish graphic designer and illustrator (she of Megan’s Movie Alphabet) Meg Hyland’s contribution to LA Gallery 1988’s Crazy 4 Cult: Say Hi to the Bad Guy show opening next week. Meg sez:
My piece is called ‘CRAZY 4 GARY’ and is a set of four of Gary Oldman’s greatest screen villains. Zorg from Fifth Element – titled ‘My Favourite’, Stansfield from Léon – titled ‘EVERYONE!!!’, Drexel the Pimp from True Romance – titled ‘I Know I’m Pretty’ and Dracula from Bram Stoker’s Dracula – titled ‘A Man of Good Taste’.
In related illustrative news, don’t forget tonight’s Illustrators Ireland exhibition at the Copper House Gallery in Dublin.
Starbucks, Westmoreland Street, Dublin, above.
Bebhinn Farrell writes:
According to the Business and Compliance section of the Starbucks Ireland website; “Starbucks believes that conducting business ethically and striving to do the right thing are vital to the success of the company”.
Every single day at closing time, Starbucks throw away an incredible amount of perfectly edible food, mere minutes after it was deemed sellable while the shop was open for business.
Starbucks policy is that they will not donate this food, and must dump it all. This not only includes healthy and filling sandwiches, but sugary baked products that easily last for days.
Stats released by the Dublin Region Homeless Executive show that in almost half of all cases last year, people presenting for help at homeless services were new to the system. In Dublin alone, there are at least 7 new homeless people EVERY DAY. The rise of homelessness in Ireland is impossible to ignore.
All it takes is a senior staff member to sit down with a capable solicitor for an hour to alter food waste policy whilst ensuring that Starbucks are protected from any potential insurance issues or ramifications. Not only can they afford it, but it would be a serious investment thanks to the positive advertisement this potentially life-changing front line charity work would provide to those most vulnerableWe know Starbucks aren’t the only establishment with these “policies”, but they also have another great opportunity. To set an example. To actually live up to their claim of “doing the right thing”.
Petition Here: Starbucks Ireland: Change your food donation policy (Change.org)
A 3D illusion by Benjamin Muzzin of the University of Art and Design in Lausanne who sez:
I wanted to explore the notion of the third dimension, with the desire to try to get out of the usual frame of a flat screen. For this, my work mainly consisted in exploring and experimenting a different device for displaying images, trying to give animations volume in space. The resulting machine works with the rotation of two screens placed back to back, creating a three-dimensional animated sequence that can be seen at 360 degrees. Due to the persistence of vision, the shapes that appear on the screen turn into kinetic light sculptures.
Mmm. Rotasty.
Music: Murder! by Montgomery Clunk
