The Medieval hell of Dante’s Inferno brilliantly recreated by Romanian artist Mihai Marius Mihu (for the 2011 MocOlympics) in the medium best suited to such weighty concepts.

From top: Limbo, Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Anger, Heresy, Violence, Fraud and Treachery.

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With the Electric DeLorean not due out until 2013, DMC has approved an appetite-whetter in the sleek and shiny form of the DeLorean Bicycle:

Italian-made Columbus XCR tube frame — in stainless steel, of course — as well as a belt drive transmission, an 11-speed internally-geared hub, front and rear hydraulic disc brakes, a luminescent coating on the wheels, an Italian-made gel saddle, and a full carbon fork.

The price? $5,500.

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Colin Freeman, Chief Foreign Correspondent for The Sunday Telegraph writes:

But after three grim years as the “poster child” for austerity measures – unlike Greece, Ireland has not baulked at painful cost-cutting programmes – there is already a growing sense of all pain and no gain. The recent election of anti-austerity parties in Greece and the socialist Francois Hollande as French president has further boosted a Left-driven “no” campaign, to the point where the referendum is no longer the certain “Yes” that the government had hoped.

…An Irish “No” would not by itself derail the fiscal treaty, because only 12 eurozone countries are required to ratify it for it to come into force. Already, Romania, Portugal, Greece, Slovenia and Slovakia have done so. However, it would embolden increasingly powerful anti-austerity campaigns in bigger eurozone countries like Italy and Spain, any of whose failure to participate could effectively sink the project.

“A No vote in the only popular poll on current efforts to save the euro would be hugely damaging to the treaty, in that it would signal to investors that if it was put to a vote in many countries, it would not get past,” said Hugo Brady, of the Centre for European Reform.

“The sense of a backlash against austerity would be much enforced.”

 

All pain, No gain: The Irish Backlash That Could Mean A ‘No’ To Europe’s Austerity Plans (Colin Freeman, Telegraph

(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)


MaKey MaKey is a successful Kickstarter project by MIT Media Lab doctoral students, Jay Silver and Eric Rosenbaum: a device that allows you to assign anything you like to keys on your keypad: bananas, Play Doh, buckets of water, stairs, whatever.

It is, and we can’t stress this enough, the best thing ever.

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Bloomberg reports:

Regulators are investigating the “reporting and accounting of the firm’s income, which was overstated over a number of years,” the Dublin-based company said in a statement today. No client funds are involved or at risk, according to the company.

Tadhg Gunnell (above) the firm’s finance and compliance partner, has been suspended, according to four people with knowledge of the probe, who declined to be identified because the person has yet to be publicly named. The probe will stretch back to 2007, three of the people said.

“The remaining partners in the firm, who were unaware of these issues, have asked a firm of forensic accountants to verify the position and assist in further investigations,”

Bloxham said in a statement the firm’s financial partner has been suspended, without identifying the person by name. Calls to Gunnell’s home and office telephone numbers and an e- mail weren’t returned. The 36-year-old joined the firm in 2000 from Deloitte in Ireland, where was a manager in audit and assurance.

Bloxham Suspends Operations Amid Probe Into Irregularities (San Fransisco Chronicle)

Meanwhile, Simon Carswell of The irish Times on the story:

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Bloxham Halts Regulated Activities Over ‘Irregularities’ (Steven Carroll, irish Times)

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