Before he became the world’s favourite children’s author, Theodore Seuss Geisel was an advertising illustrator, shilling all manner of goods from ball bearings to radio promotional spots, beer, and sugar.

Hey, everyone needs to make a buck.

There’s a huge collection of this early commercial work here.

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An analysis carried out by the Revenue on the 2010 tax year shows the average effective tax paid by the highest earners increased from 5 per cent in 2006 to its stated target of 30 per cent four years later.

It meant this group of 387 individuals earning more than €400,000 paid an additional €53 million in tax in 2010, almost double the amount of tax they would have paid that year had the new restrictions not been in place.

Six years ago, analysis by the Revenue of the tax returns of the 400 highest earning individuals showed a substantial majority were paying zero tax or tax of 10 per cent or less.

 

2006. *sigh* Good times.

High earners paying more tax as reliefs cut (Harry McGee, Irish Times)

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Olympic closing ceremony ‘includes Muse and Michael’ (BBC News)

(Hat tip: Lars Biscuits)

And email.

And the fax machine.

Found in the bowels of the EU broadcasting archives.

Gay Byrne introduces a new invention from a company called TextTel from Ennistymon, Co Clare, on The Late Late Show in May,1984. And uses it to send a self-deprecating proto-Tweet (3.30).

The nameless invention had been ordered by the thousand, mostly from the US, Textel’s founder Kevin Neville tells Byrne.

Anyone know what happened next?

Watch here.

Thanks Jack Jones

NASA has just released a huge scrollable, zoomable panorama of the Martian surface assembled from footage shot by the Opportunity Rover (Curiosity‘s less advanced predecessor) on the rim of the Endeavour crater between December 2011 and May 2012.

Go and look around.

It’s very impressive.

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