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Too lazy to rise from your squalid sofa to change an XBox game?

Relax, degenerate, and behold this fully-functioning but deeply silly App-controlled XBox disc autochanger built by LEGO nut Zwekka from 3,000 parts including three LEGO Mindstorms NXT micro-computers, seven NXT servos, an R/C motor and a light sensor.

The carousel holds 32 discs and the average change-out time is 42 seconds.

Plenty of time for you to take a wazz into that empty Fanta bottle without getting up.

technabob/gamefreaks

logoCensorship.

Old school.

The Herald can reveal that Mr [Tommy] Morris [advisor to Derek Keating, Fine Gael TD, above] entered the local Centra store last Friday and removed dozens of copies of the[Lucan Gazette].

Our pictures show him enter the outlet just before 9am. He lifts a stack of papers and takes them outside, before returning and taking further copies.

He then dumped the papers in a litter bin nearby.

The shop is situated yards from Mr Keating’s home.

 

And HERE‘s the story he/they tried to lift.

The TD’s aide, the school row and the vanishing pile of local newspapers (Niall O’Connor, The Herald)

islandWhat to do with a million tonnes of spoil under the water at Dublin bay?

Ciaran Cuffe writes:

I’m wondering could we carefully place the the rock spoil out at the edge of Dublin Bay on top of the Burford Bank and create a new island.

…The water is fairly shallow there: only about three fathoms or five and a half metres deep at the lowest tide. Arranging the spoil in a ten metre high mound resting on the sea-bed could produce a new island ten kilometres to the east of Ringsend.

Such an island could be an amenity that Dubliners could sail, motor or row out to on a summers evening, you could even plant a few pine trees, put in a pier and and a few picnic tables.

The island itself might be one hundred metres in diameter, with a rock reef to protect it from erosion. The area around the island could be designated as a marine park, and might protect vulnerable marine species from over-fishing.

How about a new island for Dublin Bay? (Ciaran Cuffe)

Pic: desperatehousebuyers

00017630 00017632 00050754 00050756 00056939 0005704890097660 90047130 90103239 90177123Colin Farrell in Ireland through the years.

Fair play though in fairness.

From top: pic 1-2 promoting Ballykissangel, 2000, 2-3 at the Meteor awards with Chris Pontius of Jackass, 2003, 3-4 with Keith Duffy, 2003; At an Abrakebabra event for Childine 2006; the irish premiere of Alexander with Val Kilmer and Angelina Jolie, 2007; with Brendan Gleeson and Martin McDonagh at the premiere of In Bruges in Dublin, 2008 and the premiere of Ondine, 2010.

(Gareth Chany, Leon Farrell, Graham Hughes, Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

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