The quilt of shame.
Percentage of households in each area with broadband internet, with a chauvinistically closer look at the greater Dublin area (data taken from the 2011 census).
A very stylishly cut video featuring freestyle skaters Killian Martin and Brett Novak.
Music: Patrick Watson: Adventures In Your Own Back Yard
(Hat tip: Lars Biscuits)
A copy of the speech Richard Nixon would have delivered had things gone horribly wrong for Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on July 20th 1969.
Side note: Whitehouse Chief Of Staff HR Haldeman later served 18 months in jail six years later for perjury, conspiracy and obstruction of justice in the Watergate affair.
STATE INVESTMENT of about €200 million along with matching funds from private telecom companies will be required as part of a national broadband plan to be launched today.
The plan will be focused on smaller urban centres and rural areas. More than 40 per cent of Irish homes already have access to very fast broadband – but they are centred in the major urban areas.
State aid clearance by the European Commission will almost certainly be required, in order to guarantee that public funds are not substituting for potential private sector investment.
Quick! Spend it before they tell us we can’t afford it.
State investment of €200m required for broadband plan (Deaglán de Bréadún, Irish Times)
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
Loganair’s commuter shuttle from the island of Westray to the island of Papa Westray in the Orkneys
Flight time: 2 minutes.
8.45pm: Stephen Hawking sits at the bottom of a huge metal tower with a moon on the top, which descends to create a massive big bang. Hundreds of people in macs and carrying white unbrellas move around the stadium, which erupts into fireworks. It looks like a lot of antibodies swirling around a giant cell … or is that just me? And then Rihanna’s Umbrella booms out. This is brilliant already…”
Shiela F writes:
JFK today. All check in agents wearing Notre Dame regalia [ahead of the American College football game with Navy in Dublin this weekend]. The ND fight song is being sung on transatlantic flights…this weekend is going to be something
Run!
Stan Carey writes:
A Phytoplankton bloom off the coast of Ireland (photo from European Space Agency).
Clearing up A Cloudy View Of Phytoplankton’s Role In The Climate System (NOAA.gov)