A Ted-Ed animation wherein Scott Gass explains the immensity of the ‘one big ocean’ of planet Earth.
For the sake of perspective, as the US Geological Survey showed with a memorable graphic last year, every last drop of fresh water, sea water, ground water, water vapor and water in biological matter would form a sphere just 1,384km in diameter.
The gut-wrenching 4th Dimension rollercoaster ‘Dinoconda’ at China Dinosaurs Park in Changzhou, Jiangsu, which starts in reverse, then rockets along a twisty track while simultaneously spinning the riders in their seats.
Stick around after the initial, disconcerting two-minute POV for further cookie-tossing perspectives.
I NEARLY filed this script to #newstalk – I spotted it just in time! pic.twitter.com/Q5C0AdQutj
— Páraic Gallagher (@paraicgallagher) July 3, 2013
Reilly rules out ‘cooling off period’ for abortions (Mary Minihan, Irish Times)
Hiss.
Lorcan O’Connor [via BS android app]
Spotted in a health food shop in Rathmines [Dublin]
Update:
The shop’s ‘window of shame’ this evening.
Thanks Brian O’Neill
Via Donal Lyons
…is Busby spinning in his grave.
Nigel Callinan writes:
Found last night in my local GS25 supermarket in Busan (the South Korean equivalent of a Spar).
1.6L Pre-2008 car tax is €514 (cc rated)
1.6L New car tax is €200 (CO2 rated)
Difference is €314 or 157% more tax for older cars.
Ah here.
9000 Irish signatures required for ECI European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI).
Petition To Reform The Grossly Unjust Irish Car Tax Law (Change.org)
Thanks Kevin Whitty
Teacher Dale Irby from Dallas has worn the same shirt and brown geansaí in yearbook photos for all 40 years of his career. What started by accident became a running joke. A very long running joke.
A sports teacher, Irby usually wore athletic clothes suitable for exercise. He picked the vest and shirt combination in order to look presentable for his first yearbook photo in 1973 and accidentally repeated the outfit the following year. “I was so embarrassed when I got the school pictures back that second year and realised I had worn the very same thing as the first year,” he told the Dallas Morning News. Irby’s wife, Cathy dared him to repeat the outfit for a third year. In the spirit of one-upmanship Irby continued the joke for a further five years, after which he thought “why stop?”
Exactly the sort of can-do attitude the modern internetz need.
Just now.
Shiela Larkin writes:
Someone busking outside Dunnes on Grafton Street has attracted a huge crowd. No idea who it is… Anyone?
UPDATE:
It’s Passenger!
These guys’?
No.
This guy.
Ah.
Via Dublintown.ie
Update:
Passenger’s back view.
Crazy jean sag.
Thanks Owen Sweeney
A short documentary directed by Eric Romero of DecemberWorks in Edinburgh exploring a human genetic mutation hitherto suspected but only recently confirmed by science.
This is a truncated version. Those self-deprecating genetic mutants have put the full length version here.
