Thanks Dylad
Psychic Sally Morgan has never “used a hidden earpiece during her performance in order to receive instructions from her team which she then repeated on stage as if she had received them from the spirit world”
And has just won a libel case against The Daily Mail on that particular subject.
This leaves three options.
According to Science journalist Tom Chivers:
1) She really is talking to dead people.
2) She is not really talking to dead people, but does genuinely believe that she is talking to dead people
3) She is not really talking to dead people, does not genuinely believe she is talking to dead people, but does want to convince other people that she is talking to dead people, at least partly for financial reasons.
YOU decide.
Daily Mail payout to Sally Morgan over psychic ‘scam’ article (BBC)
Flash Pixar
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Phil Postma’s entirely believable reimagining of Flash Gordon as a Pixar movie.
A powerful animation created entirely in After Effects by director Rob Chiu, intended as a fictional backstory to the global displacement of peoples.
The short which depicts a family’s tragedy in a city rocked by turmoil, originally released in 2005, was uploaded to Vimeo by the director yesterday, having lost none of its impact.
A couple nattering over cups of tay.
By Conor & David who sez:
With next week’s issue being a coffee special, we didn’t want to forget about Ireland’s ubiquitous non-alcoholic beverage – tea. It’s the fuel behind our love for talking. An Irish tea break pushes the boundaries of one’s tolerance to be talked at for what seem like micro-eternities.
Coffee has become an essential ingredient in the running of our studio. We wanted to illustrate its effects as we reflected on a few (too many) late nights when this magical potion was the making or breaking of an important project.
But not flame retardant sadly.
Members of the Orange Order in Liverpool burning the Irish tricolour flag last week in the grounds of the Provincial Orange Hall, Everton Road, Liverpool.
Mmf.
Burning the Irish Tricolour flag. Liverpool Orange Order members reach new low…(Liverpool Irish blog)
The ’emigrant flame’ from JFK’s eternal flame in Arlington Cemetery, Washington DC arrives at Dublin Airport carried by government chief whip Paul Kehoe (top) and ceremoniously handed over by Lieutenant Colonel Brendan Delaney (left) to Lt Comdt Conor Kirwin (right).
The flame will form part of a ceremonial event in New Ross, Co Wexford on Saturday as part of the JFK50 celebratory events.
Not odd in the slightest.
(Laura Hutton/Photocal Ireland)
http://vimeo.com/68699598
Soundwave, whose videos we’ve featured before (a dance off and sledding in Dublin) have finally launched their music discovery app on both iOS and Android today for the princely sum of free.
Predicted by everyone’s favourite tax compliant musician, loved by overweight tech-giant founders and championed by government secret exposing newspapers.
The feature that really hooks me is the music map which allows you to draw a shape on the map and see what music people are listening to in that area.
Why don’t you reward these hardworking lads and give their app a go on your preferred device?
Maybe even BUY a song?
(As always no favours were given or received for this post)
Have an app? Mail broadsheet@broadsheet.ie.
Lots of people feeling that pent-up rage. Huge demographic.
Relief is at hand in the form of this grisly supercut of the most celebrated shot in the zom genre and the only sure way to put a Deadite member of the undead community down.
By ScreenJunkies, jumping merrily on the World War Z bandwagon. And who’d blame them?
NSFW: gore, obviously.
We beseeched him.
You must never go there.
But he did.
We have been conditioned to think about the idea of pregnancy as some kind of imposition on a woman and her life. This idea actually runs back through Irish culture, predating even the earliest clamouring for abortion rights. It is related to the victim-status claimed by and ceded to women in Irish culture, which has long disguised the true nature of power structures in the domestic realm of Irish life.
Because women are prone to more extravagant shows of emotion than men, our society is far more willing to concede their demands than it is those of males. Not only that, but, almost regardless of how much we claim to repudiate abortion, we refuse to criticise or question the women who seek this remedy for themselves. We will condemn the abortionist who wields the knife, the politician who implements the abortion-facilitating law, the campaigner who demands the change, and so forth.
But the person who obtains the ultimate ‘benefit’ from all this activity is regarded as some kind of enfeebled innocent, upon whom the ‘necessity’ for an abortion is always thrust by unfortunate circumstances, for which the woman has no responsibility herself. Even the priests and bishops who lead the moral crusade against abortion will never speak a word against those on whose behalf abortion is being sought.
Listening to them, one would get the impression that the thousands of Irish women who go to England every year for abortions are the sorry victims of other people’s sins.
John Waters (above).
Absolutely hardcore.
More wary of female emotions than abortion (John Waters, Irish Catholic)
Pic via BMD
Thanks anon