First it was the flegs.
Belfast City Council shenanigans continue apace.
Talking a load of aurora boreeollix?
You decide.
Art deco-style stainless steel by San Francisco jewelry designer Fathom And Form.
For love triangles, presumably.
Ten euro in an’ all.
Convention Centre, Silver Springs Moran Hotel, Tivoli, Cork, moments ago.
Laura Fahy writes:
Whoever is last to leave the country please turn off the lights.
Previously: Opening The Valve
Finallai.
Tayto as Gaeilge launched this morning by Roz Lipset and a man in a Mr Tayto suit at Tayto Park, Ashbourne, Co Meath.
Cen fath ni bhfNOMNOMNOM
(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
And you thought the Windsor was the very apogee of sartorial chutzpah. Feh.
The fancy folk at Agree or Die have how-to videos and tutorials to help you throttle yourself get your Barney Stinson on with the nifty Eldridge Knot, the impressive Trinity Knot and the mildly alarming Cape Knot.
None of us own ties here, but Bodger just Eldridged the laces of one of his rainbow-pattern Converse low-tops to the radiator.
US rapper Macklemore’s meme-friendly hit ‘Thrift Shop’ given an appropriately low budget, slightly NSFW makeover by Youtuber LiteralMSPaint.
At the communications committee hearing…
Chairman: “I’ve just been told here that the, just another reminder with relation to the phones issue, that the interference will stop the reporting of the committee.”
Patrick O’Donovan: “Chairman, just on that point, can I just say something in relation to that. This is a communications committee, we’ve been asked several times, as members of the Oireachtas to try minimise the amount of paper that we’re bringing. Now Deputy Kenny and myself have, for the last number of committee meeting have brought our laptops here, in a view to try and reduce paper and now we’re being told we can’t use the technology in a committee room that’s been given to us by the Oireachtas. I mean either we’re going to have a communications committee in this country reducing the amount of paper…I mean I’ve documentation got from the Office of Internet Safety that I can’t access now because I was asked to turn off the computer. This is a bit of a farce. I mean, at the end of the day, this is a facility that’s provided by the Oireachtas and now we’re told to turn it off.”
Chairman: “I think it’s eh, I take on board exactly what you’re saying, It’s a little bit like the social media, it’s evolving very quickly and it does need to be dealt with.”
O’Donovan: “But only in this room, chairman, with the greatest amount of respect that there’s a problem. Because in the other committee room where we meet, we don’t seem to have this difficulty at all.
Chairman: “Yeah, it’s an issue we’ll have to return to.”
Smart economy, wha?
If you like the balancing acts, this one’s a doozy.
At the Kamiwaza 2013 talent show in Japan, Mädir Eugster of the Rigolo Swiss Noveuau Cirque balances a feather on a stick on a larger stick and so on until he has the whole weight of fourteen sticks precariously balanced one on the other like a giant Calder mobile.
Oh.
Meanwhile, earlier:
Toe-curling footage of the ‘Joint Oireachtas on Transport and Communications: The challenges facing individuals, families and communities through the irresponsible use of social media channels’ here.