County Dublin today.
Laura McDermot writes [via Android app]:
I know you don’t normally do this….But, this little kitten arrived on our doorstep last night. Only about 6-8 weeks old, female and very friendly.
She sat on the step for hours crying to be let in. We took her in for the night but we can’t keep her (I’m allergic). Would love to return her to her rightful owner.
Lucan area, near Superquinn (or should I say SuperValu :/)
Anyone?
A 3m tall four-armed mecha suit made for WIRED by monster makers Stan Winston Studios and Legacy Effects (which created the Jaeger effects for Pacific Rim).
Premiered last month (with the help of Adam Savage) at San Diego Comic Con, (top) the second video shows a recent ‘walk test’ where the suit is being piloted by its creator Bruce D. Mitchell.
Ir Psych writes:
The crime is repeated in the article itself.
Katie Dawson tweetz:
1 year on from Olympics euphoria we should reflect on this – it’s not enough to just share their glory then forget.
Interview with Katie Taylor: In the clearing stands a boxer (Johnny Watterson, Irish Times)
A Breaking Bad parody by Aaron Simpson for Youtube’s Geek Week in which:
A terminal cancer diagnosis sends Steve Jobs into beastmode, and into the lab with Jony Ive to cook up the most addictive substance known to man.
It’s in terribly bad taste. But you could always cut it with a little smack.
Swimming Cities – a half art project, half utopian experiment by street artist Swoon (aka Caledonia “Callie” Curry) – is a wonderful, ramshackle flotilla of ‘hoboboat’ rafts made from recycled materials that floated down various US canals and rivers (including the Mississippi and Hudson), stopping off to gather building materials, play music and generally freak out squares along the way.
The No More Shame Project launches tonight in the Mariah Black Gallery in the Triskel Arts Centre, Tobin St, Cork. The project, led by Laura Kinsella, a researcher and activist media producer, and Liz Dunphy, journalist and filmmaker, aims to break the silence of the 12 women who leave Ireland daily to terminate pregnancies. “For too long a culture of silence has choked progress, ensuring continued legal barriers to basic reproductive rights,” says Dr Sandra McEvoy of the department of women’s studies at University College Cork.
Women tell abortion stories as they urge No More Shame (Dan Buckley, Irish Examiner)
Afghan Youtuber Pashtun Pashtun’s pet Myna, who does a pitch perfect impression of a crying infant (plus sundry other bloops, clicks and burbles at no extra cost).
