We featured the first video from Project Yosemite last year. Now there’s a trailer for the next installment due out at the end of the month.
Sit back. Enjoy.
We’re suckers for Calvin and Hobbes and animator Adam Brown has filled our heads with what could have been with this animation of a classic C & H strip.
Wexford Marine Watch.
Sean O’Riordan writes:
Thought you might want to share this video. Wexford suffered a lot of young male suicides over the years on the quays and bridge area, and this organisation volunteer people to patrol these area during high risk times, to stage an intervention.
Part of a list of 5,100 poorly-built properties exempt from the property charge released this morning.
Lucky bastards.
However, of the 1,770 unfinished ghost estates in the country, just 421 estates will be exempt (compared to 1,322 estates that were exempt from the Household Charge).
Exempt list here
Both parts of the Arthur ‘Guitar Boogie’ Smith classic made famous in the 1972 movie Deliverance played on a double necked guitar by big showoff guitar virtuoso Mark Kroos.
You’ll notice there’s no actual banjo involved here. For purists, here’s Arthur Smith’s 1955 original.
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National Geographic Photographer Joe McNally got permission (after three years of patient negotiation with the skyscraper’s administrator) to climb to the top of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai and take this shot of the city beneath his shoes during Gulf Photo Plus 2013. Sez he:
My old battered shoes climbed the worlds tallest building today. What an amazing structure! Tweeting from 820 meters straight up!
(Pix: Joe McNally, Nicolas Lannuzel [Burj profile] and Wikimedia Commons [graph])
Under no circumstances will deposits in Irish banks be targeted for a Cypriot-style tax, the Government has insisted.
Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney stressed he was being “clear as crystal” that Irish savings were safe. He made the comments during heated exchanges in the Dáil on the bailout deal for Cyprus, rejected by its parliament but supported by the Irish Government and other euro zone member states.
Ah.
Not good for the gander, then.
Irish deposits ‘will not be targeted’ for Cypriot-style tax (Marie O’Halloran, Michael O’Regan, Irish Times)
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
AsapSCIENCE explain why one of life’s so-called luxuries is, in fact, working against you.
ThanksMike Hogan 4Fm and Meliosa Fitzgibbon, Enda Cunningham, BMalone, Joe Donnelly Crona Esler and Deirdre O’Shaugnessy.
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