BREAKING NEWS: There is a bush fire on Palm Beach headland the iconic location for Home and Away. http://t.co/YOh5lh0Enu
— Home & Away Official (@summer_bay) September 28, 2013
Bushfires threaten Sydney’s northern beaches (Guardian)
Pic: AAP
BREAKING NEWS: There is a bush fire on Palm Beach headland the iconic location for Home and Away. http://t.co/YOh5lh0Enu
— Home & Away Official (@summer_bay) September 28, 2013
Bushfires threaten Sydney’s northern beaches (Guardian)
Pic: AAP
Queuing for One Direction concert tickets at Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre,, Dublin, since ‘early’.
Sleep-deprived, pop-crazed tykes.
*shakes fist*

An exhaustively researched (currently in its fifth iteration with future updates including Dune and Mass Effect planned) fictional spaceship size comparison chart by German digital artist Dirk Loechel featuring craft of all descriptions from Star Wars, Warhammer, Babylon5, Star Trek, Wall-E, Serenity, Farscape, Silent Running, Independence Day, AvP, Battlestar Galactica and dozens more.
Link to gob-smackingly massive version here.
UPDATE: Still not sufficiently sated by the rocket-scaling above? Check out Jeff Russel’s Starship Dimensions – an entire site dedicated to this sort of thing.
io9 (H/T: JCDSR)
A very cute graduation piece by former Haute Ecole Albert Jacquard student Nathan Petit.
Show it to a small child.
You may have to purchase a small bear later.
(Merci Nathan)
About fupping time too.
And ironically the couple will be entitled to a free TV licence because John – who is on disability allowance – turned 66 last week.
The couple were [taken to prison by taxi] because they could not pay a €1,200 fine in relation to not having a licence.
“I get €207 per week pension and Angela gets €188 long-term sickness benefit,” John told the Herald.
“There’s not a chance we can come up with the €1,200. If I had the money, I’d pay it.”
Sorry, John
That’s not exactly going to put petrol in Tubs’ Jag now is it?
Suck it up. The Law is the LAW.
Pic: Wikipedia
Ciaran Quigley writes:
Spotted this yacht in St Tropez last weekend, must be an Irish owner, anyone know?
Me minus you is such a lonely ride.
Thea writes:
On Monday my colleague rescued the lonesome bike from the Stephen’s Green [Dublin] construction work(ers)
I am delighted to report that bike and owner Cliona (above) are reunited, just in time for the weekend. Have fun you two!
Mmf.