It’s a holographic LEGO window display. In Norway (but apparently on view at every major LEGO retailer right now). Youtuber H1tmonchan sez:

When me and my friend walked trough the mall (Amfi) in Steinkjer, we got nerdgasm as we saw this brilliant Star Wars-Lego hologram in a toy store.

Well, it sure beats the Phantom Menace.

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Well, that went pretty much as expected.

Curse you, low Van Der Waals forces. (Unless, as some Boing Boing commenters maintain, it’s a not a gecko but a Bearded Dragon, in which case that’s 8 seconds of non-refundable life right there)

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Enda Kenny with, top from left: Senator Imelda Henry, Mary Mitchell O’Connor TD, Lorna Jennings and Jennifer O’Brien, at the 100×100 ‘Woman for a Yes Vote’ at the Hibernia Club, Dublin, earlier.

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Oh.

 

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Andrew Judge writes:

As you may be aware the Department of the Environment are proposing to alter the Building Control Regulations so that architects (or another building professional such as engineers) will be required by law to sign a Certificate on completion that says:

“Notwithstanding the responsibilities of other person/s or firms/s in relation to the works, I accept  responsibility and legal liability for the inspection of all works as necessary to ensure that they are neither defective nor contravene any requirements of the Second Schedule of the Building Regulations”. (See page 13, paragraph 4 – here)

I’m sorry, but how can one person guarantee that an entire building like a hospital or fire station is perfectly built and free from defects?

Building is much more complicated than that. There’s lots of people involved, not least the Building Contractor who is not even mentioned in the Draft Building Control Regulations.

The deadline for submissions to be made to the Department of the Environment is this Thursday 24th May 2012. It is vital that every architect and engineer make themselves heard. Email your views to buildingstandards@environ.ie 

You can read more about the proposals here and here here.

Thanks.

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