Parisian photographer Pierre Carreau’s spectacular high-speed macro and wide-angle lens studies of ocean waves, apparently frozen in time.
More at Carreau’s website.
Irish Times, September 2, 1976.
Sibling of Daedalus writes:
Researching the first ever cocaine arrest in Ireland (somebody in the ‘advertising industry’ apparently) I came up on this exceptional item (article below) from the Irish Times 37 years ago. Fancy a line?
Snort.
Via Irish Times archive
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YouTuber and dancin’ fool Takaske attempts the highest difficulty level (and a setting involving both sets of footpads) on the DanceDanceRevolutionX3 arcade game.
Despite the foot frenzy, he scores a mediocre ‘C’ ranking.
Celebrating World Press Freedom Day
A possibly squirming Squee, next to Denis O’Brien, presents this year’s 2013 Front Line Defenders Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk award to Biram Dah Abeid, a Mauritanian human rights defender and president of the anti-slavery NGO Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement in Mauritania, in Dublin City Hall this morning.
Denis O’Brien is on the board of trustees at Front Line Defenders. And, you know, does other stuff.
Pics: Front Line Defenders and David Joyce
@corasherlockIt would be good to know alright if #rtept tried to find a woman who carried her fatally handicapped baby to term.
— David Quinn (@DavQuinn) May 2, 2013
@corasherlock I hope one day #rtept will interview a woman deeply emotionally scarred by abortion.
— David Quinn (@DavQuinn) May 2, 2013
Disappointed that no woman who chose to keep her unwell unborn baby was invited to #rtept to tell her story @kevinbakhurst
— Cora Sherlock (@CoraSherlock) May 2, 2013
So much misunderstanding re perinatal hospices that #rtept badly need to have woman on who gave birth in those circum @kevinbakhurst
— Cora Sherlock (@CoraSherlock) May 2, 2013
Why are those who do not choose/regret ab not given a platform? #OneDayMore #WomenHurt @kevinbakhurst
— Cora Sherlock (@CoraSherlock) May 2, 2013
Wonder why #rtept didn’t have mother in similar situation who kept her baby on to tell her story? @jenoconnell @curranbrian @kevinbakhurst
— Cora Sherlock (@CoraSherlock) May 2, 2013
. @kevinbakhurst Will you be doing interview with woman who gave birth to terminally ill unborn baby? #balance @finegaeltoday #rtept
— Cora Sherlock (@CoraSherlock) May 3, 2013
Earlier: Where Is Your Decency?
Sup?
“Jordan Casey (above), a 13-year-old from Waterford who taught himself how to write code and who at 12 was one of the youngest entrepreneurs to publish an app in the App Store, is to speak at the prestigious 20th TiEcon conference in California where he will impart the lessons of a CEO to the CEOs of LinkedIn, Amazon, Netfix, PayPal and many others.”
Fair play, in fairness.
13-year-old Irish coder and CEO to address the titans of Silicon Valley (Silicon Republic)
Pic: Gamevicio
Mary Fitzgerald, of the Irish Times, reports that Jordanian-born 26-year-old Alaa Ciymeh, who grew up in Ireland, has died fighting with rebel forces in Syria.
Alaa went to De La Salle College, Churchtown, and left Dublin in 2008
He is the third young man with links to Ireland to die in the country’s civil war.
Shamseddin Gaidan (16) from Navan, Co Meath and Hudhaifa ElSayed (22), from Drogheda, Co Louth were both killed during fighting in Syria within the last six months.
Man raised in Ireland killed fighting with rebel forces in Syria (Mary Fitzgerald, Irish Times)
At the YMCA Cricket Club in Sandymount Dublin.
Ger Siggins, on the Cricket Europe Leinster website, reports:
“Weedkiller was poured all over the playing area at the YMCA club in Sandymount on Wednesday night…All eight pitches were damaged as the vandals zigzagged the weedkiller over the square.”
YMCA square vandalised (Cricket Europe Leinster)
Pics: James Fitzgerald and Cricket Ireland