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We have one – yes, ONE – limited edition illustration of an existential cat and lunch some fish on ‘upcycled’ paper by Pat Byrne from Jam Art Prints catalogue to give away in a bream giveaway.

To enter, just complete this sentence.

I would like to give the Pat Byrne illustration to_______because________

Lines close at 12.30pm. 1.15pm

Winner announced in comments.

Pat Byrne (Jam Art Prints)

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Cathy Belton and Ingrid Craigie in The Housekeeper

…But director Lynne Parker pulls back from the delicious tang of the fantastic, with a production emphasising physical and moral atrophy; characters often address each other across chilly chasms of distance on Bláithín Sheerin’s partial set, and every utterance echoes through the space…

…Had it intruded on more fully fleshed characters or pushed towards the summit of tragedy, we’d have a deeper investment, but this feels less like a committed occupation than a swift, diverting trespass.

Review of The Housekeper, Peter Crawley, Irish Times, April 27, 2013.

Oh.

Best New Play went to Derry-born Morna Regan for The House Keeper directed by Lynne Parker for Rough Magic.

The Irish Times Theatre Awards (Irish Times)

Yay.

Thanks T

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hVjKJzLQgzw

What you may need to know:

1. It’s based on the Elmore Leonard novel.

2. It’s got Crispin Glover in it.

3. That Christian Slater revival begins any day now.

4. Michael Jai White = Black Dynamite.

5. It’s directed by Walter Matthau‘s son.

6. Broadsheet Prognosis: Freaky Creaky.

Release Date: Summer (TBC)

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Mumbly Joe writes:

I feel compelled to get in touch with you folks to highlight how many tweets articles on Independent.ie are getting.

If you visit an article on their website you’ll see a bar which invites you to recommend on Facebook/Tweet the article and +1 it on Google plus.

Have you noticed how the Twitter button doesn’t actually look like the actual twitter button on most websites?

That’s because it isn’t – it’s a button which opens twitter in a new window.

Using the free service Share-count.com you can check to see
how many actual tweets an article has received.

So take Friday’s Independent article where they talk about their market share – their website’s apparent twitter button says [at time of writing] the piece had recieved 44 tweets.

But if you check the Share-Count website you’ll see the actual figure is 6. 6.

This is a consistent theme over a huge number of their articles.

So how is this possible?

Well Independent.ie’s “Tweet” button isn’t actually recording the number of tweets, just the number of times the button is pressed.

So press it a few times and a window will open to tweet the link, but the counter has already updated.

What this means, is that someone could repeatedly click on that button to drive up the count.

Oh.

But who would do such a THING?

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