Minifig Babies: a buck each from Citizen Brick.

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On a related tip, those adorable brick-sprogs are lucky to exist at all, given the relative dearth of female minifig characters, a point made by Maia Weinstock, who created the minifig gender infographic below.

Larger version here.

My Dear LEGO, You Are Part Of The Problem (Annals Of Spacetime)

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On December 14, 2008, the First Trumpet of the Seventh Seal of the Book of Revelation sounded, which announced the beginning collapse of the economy of the United States and great destruction that will follow. The next three trumpets will result in the total collapse of the United States, and once the Fifth Trumpet sounds the world will be thrust into WW III.

The year 2008 marked the last of God’s warnings to mankind and the beginning in a countdown of the final three and one-half years of man’s self-rule that will end by May 27, 2012.


Oh.

The Prophesied End-Time Revealed

Thanks Duke Nukem

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlZ8blrHG2s

To mark the anniversary of Jim Henson’s passing.

An Muppet Show as Gaeilge, le Johnny Cash mar aoi speisialta.

Meanwhile, here are the lyrics of ‘It’s Not Easy Being Green’ in Irish.

Níl sé éasca bheith glas
Bheith ar aon dath le duilleog nó le gas
Nuair is deise a shamhlóinnse bheith dearg, buí nó órga
Nó dath i bhfad níos glé den tsórt sin

Níl sé éasca bheith glas
Leis an oiread gnáth rudaí eile luíonn tú isteach
Agus is beag a thugann aird ort
Ní sheasann tú amach ar nós spréachloinnir ar an uisce
Nó réalta sa spéir

Ach ‘sé dath an earraigh é
Is féadfaidh glas bheith maith agus séimh
Is féadfaidh glas bheith mór ar nós aigéin,
nó tábhachtach ar nós sliabhraoin
nó ard ar nós na gcrann

Nuair nach bhfuil dul as ó bheith glas
Chúiseodh sin roinn machnaimh, sea machnaigh go maith air
Táim glas, nach maith sin, nach álainn
Agus sílim gurb é sin mo mhian

Thanks Marcus Mac Conghail

Contained on this week’s cover by the Project Twins are some of Dublin’s greatest writers.

Each icon represents a different writer or one of their well known pieces of work.

There are TEN in total.

Can you name them all?

A Le Cool goodie bag full of damn hipster knick knacks to the first correct/best entry.

Lines close at 1pm.

Le Cool Dublin

 

By Gavan Titley

Because the young Europeans must now step up to the plate.

Vote yes to supplement Lumumba jokes with feta gags.

To pretend that public expenditure is the root problem. To stop bombs going off in Dublin. To scupper the annoying remnants of democracy on the elastic voodoo of ‘the structural deficit.’

Vote yes if you liked Kenny doing Sarkozy impressions in Athlone. Vote yes for internships.

Vote yes because the treaty is a cushion that will under no circumstances be used to smother you* (*terms and conditions may apply).

Vote yes for that second bailout that we categorically didn’t need.

Vote yes for access to a fund that we can access if we can’t access the bond markets, but for which we will have to borrow billions from the bond markets to pay in our share.

Vote yes to rearrange deckchairs on the iceberg. Vote yes to support Labour’s bid for caviar on the Dail menu.

Yes to a treaty that the Bundestag rejected and the French have declared impossible in its current form.

Vote yes because The Irish Times does fret dreadfully about popular sovereignty. Vote yes because the Shinners will vote no and that 80s vibe still feels nice and comfortable.

Vote yes because Noonan thinks that Ireland being the only country in which this could pass is something to boast about at a business breakfast.

Yes to magical growth plans lashed up on Powerpoint.

Vote yes to pretend the capitalist crisis will go away.

 

Gavan Titley is lecturer in media Studies at NUI Maynooth and vice-chair of the ‘Diaspora, Migration and Media’ section of the European Communication Research Association

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