A silent film (flickering caused by deterioration) from 1909 – the only know footage of the great American author.

Shot by Twain’s friend, filmmaking pioneer Thomas Edison as his subject walks around his Stormfield Connecticut home, smoking and chatting with daughters Clara and Jean in his signature white suit about a year before his death.

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Silly season.

What silly season?

The Cappamore grandmother [Cecelia O’Dwyer, above, with grandchildren Shelley and Lorcan] has had just two washing machines in the last 44 years, with barely a problem. At one wash a day that works out at over 16,000 loads – and with four children and living on a farm it could even have been a lot more.

In 1986, the Cappamore grandmother won a Miele competition to find the oldest model of their machine in the country. Her 30-year-old machine took the prize.

…History has repeated itself as 26 years later her Zanussi washing machine is still going strong.

 

More as we get it

Limerick woman’s First Washing Machine Lasted 30 years, And Her Second One Is Going Strong After 26! (Donal O’Regan, Limerick leader)

Thanks Niall O’M


A ‘fan-made’ stop-motion animation (their first, apparently) directed by Derek Kwok and Henri Wong of Parabucks using hyper-realistic collectibles from Hong Kong model maker Hot Toys, including the Christian Bale/Batman and Heath Ledger/Joker figurines.

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An impressive tech demo of CryEngine – the new and improved Crysis 3 3D graphics engine. This new iteration includes:

..real-time volumetric cloud shadows, pixel-accurate displacement mapping, tessellated vegetation, composite 3D lens flare, procedural HDR flares and shapes, real-time global illumination, dynamic water volume caustics, real-time volumetric fog shadows, real-time area lights and cloth simulation.

Essentially it’s as close an approximation of the real world as certain friends of ours are likely to get for the next twelve months.

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Anyone?

Thanks Lars Biscuits

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