Last week, New York restaurant Serendipity3 set a Guinness World Record for the priciest burger with this gourmet $295 NOMfest, described by PRNewswire as:

…a mix of Japanese Wagyu beef infused with 10-herb white truffle butter, seasoned with Salish Alderwood smoked Pacific sea salt, topped with cheddar cheese — hand-formed by the famous cheesemaker James Montgomery in Somerset, England, and cave-aged for 18 months — shaved black truffles, a fried quail egg and served on a white truffle-buttered Campagna Roll, which is topped with a blini, creme fraiche, and Paramout Caviar’s exclusive Kaluga caviar — a beautiful golden caviar with a buttery, nutty taste and large pearls from the Huso Dauricus farm raised in Quzhou, China. The finishing touch to this incredible burger is a solid gold “Fleur de Lis” toothpick encrusted with diamonds and designed by world-renowned jeweler.’

48 hour notice is required when ordering the burger, profits from which are donated to the Bowery Mission a NY charity that feeds homeless people.

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The Hennessey Venom GT Spyder.

The fastest convertible in the world.

It will accelerate to 200mph in 15.9 seconds, eight seconds faster than a Bugatti Veyron.

And still he insists on wearing sandals with socks.

Thanks Jonathan Darby

This morning on Kildare Street, Dublin.

Calling on the government to decriminalise abortion following the release yesterday of figures (by the UK Department of Health) showing that 4,149 Irish women (some under the age of16) travelled to the UK for terminations in 2011.

Alison Spillane, of Action on X and the Irish Feminist Network, sez:

“Criminalising abortion doesn’t work and these latest figures prove that. While we welcome the slight fall in the numbers of women going to England and Wales for terminations, the fact remains that over 4,000 women made that difficult journey last year. This is wrong. We call on the government to start the process of providing safe legal abortions for women in Ireland by taking the first step: implementing the 20-year-old Supreme Court ruling in the X Case.”


Action On X (Facebook)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-ZMYUT_6cs&feature=youtu.be

Dublin-based Igloo Animation last year created a delightful piece of cartoonery (click here) around Stephen Fry’s feelings on the yuckiest emotion of them all: self-pity. The animation was even retweeted by the man himself.

Igloo has now illustrated a timely (and, for us, highly relevant) Fry monologue on that most thorny of topics, trolling.

Trev at Igloo has suggested if you are a follower of His Fryness you may wish to share it with him.

Igloo Animations (Facebook)

Igloo Animations

Thanks Trevor

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BMluJ32T0Q&feature=share

Lustrously-bearded Dublin bard John Cummins delivers an ode to Euro 2012 while preparing tea/sweeping his kitchen.

Damn multi-tasking, rhyming hipster .

Filmed by Padhraic Cuthbert.

Thanks Bibi Baskin Robbins

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