Via Richard Dawkins
Anyone?
Lines close at 10.30am
Update: A 2004 proposal for a new Anglo Irish Bank HQ. Via Archiseek.
New York actress Claire Danes cries a lot in her film and TV roles. Slacktory presents this weepy gurnathon as evidence.
(Featured: Igby Goes Down, Little Women, My So-Called Life, Homeland, Law and Order, The Family Stone, Temple Grandin, Brokedown Palace, Les Miserables and Romeo And Juliet.)
Have the heartless zealots stopped, for even one moment, to consider the anguish and confusion these people are experiencing? Their desperate need for calm, objective, non-judgemental support, for someone to sit down with them and explain the options — and I mean all the options, including termination, as well as continuing the pregnancy — so that they can make an informed decision about how to proceed with such a momentous choice, one that may affect their whole lives? Of course they haven’t.
They don’t need to speak to real women, or place themselves in their shoes. Because they have already made up their minds: abortion is always, always, always wrong. They may use the language of compassion and care, they may adopt the rhetoric of choice, they may talk with saccharine sentimentality about saving the lives of little babies.
Yet their sole objective is single-minded and ruthless: to prevent terminations, no matter what the cost to the mother or, ultimately, to the child.
Why Pro-Life Zealots Needed To Show More Compassion (Finola Meredith, Belfast Telegraph)
Ireland’s First Private Abortion Clinic Braced For Protests (Henry McDonald, Guardian)
What you may need to know:
1. Remember Edward Burns? The Irish-American actor-filmmaker from Queens
made a big indie splash with his no-budget debut, The Brothers
McMullen (1995), then got to co-star in Saving Private Ryan (1998).
2. What happened next? A bunch of forgettable directing vehicles, plus a
lot of brutal acting gigs. That said, he did get to play himself in
Entourage AND marry Christy Turlington.
3. Burns is calling Fitzgerald Family Christmas a ‘spiritual cousin’ of
Brothers McMullen. Translated: Remember me?
Released: Xmas (US)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzVSeF6Aivg#!
In a promo for this weekend’s Comedy Central Night Of Too Many Stars event, Ben Stiller unleashed Blue Steel for the first time in 11 years.
File-sharing website The Pirate Bay has moved its servers to the cloud to frustrate attempts to take it offline.
The site, which has been blamed for encouraging illegal file-sharing, will now operate from cloud-hosting providers around the world.
It says the move will save money and make it harder for law-enforcement agencies to shut it down.
“All attempts to attack [us] from now on is an attack on everything and nothing,” it says.
The Pirate Bay moves to the cloud to avoid shutdown (BBC News Technology)
Pirate Bay moves to the cloud to confound copyright cops (The Register)
(Hat tip: Oisin)
The larval stage of Phyllodes imperialis – a moth native to Eastern Australia whose habitat is currently under threat from deforestation.
On the Day Of The Dead, the loggers will pay.
Pix by plant_nerd
FIANNA FÁIL has bounced back to become the second-biggest party in the State for the first time in more than two years, according to the latest Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI poll.
Since its disastrous general election performance 18 months ago, Fianna Fáil has frequently found itself in fourth place in opinion polls behind Fine Gael, the Labour Party and Sinn Féin.
Fianna Fáil is now narrowly ahead of Sinn Féin and well ahead of Labour, having gained a substantial level of support over the course of 2012.
Of course we’ll vote them in next time. We always vote them in next time.
It’s what we do.