A collaboration between the nice people at Epipheo and Doctor of Robotics Daniel H. Wilson, the author of How To Survive A Robot Uprising and Robopocalypse yields this handy survival guide.
Listen up. Some day soon, this could save your life.
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Mongrel?
Only one of the best magazines to ever come out of Ireland and which gallantly served discerning hipsters throughout the later stages of the Celtic Tiger years.
Dry your eyes.
Because the people who brought you Mongrel are now producing The Racket, a new online publication, based in London but with all the major Mongrel talent – Eoin Butler, Larry Ryan, Mark O’Connell and others – under one roof.
As editor Sam Bungey puts it:
“The Racket picks themes and works the hell out of them from every angle we can think of. The site aims to showcase writing, film, music and photography from around the world. Headquartered in London, The Racket’s aim is to bring together narrative journalism across all formats, with contributors who work in radio, TV and in print – we are considering everything an audio comment forum to a talk show … we’re inspired by new publishing ventures like The Atavist, Byliner and Once Magazine. If it sounds a little antiquated to be enthusing about the exciting new possibilities of internet publishing that’s possibly a fair cop, but we feel it still remains to be proven that a magazine style site with free, original journalism can sustain itself. We will be putting out new themes regularly – there are currently stories in the works in Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Co. Louth. Anyone with ideas should get in touch at info@theracket.co.uk We’ll be tweeting as @littleracket
Taken on May 4.
Moody. Magnificent. Soggy.
But where?
Lines close at 1pm.
Update; The answer is Mayo by Brigmaximus
Via Sunny Hundal
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyXyB3kJP20&feature=youtu.be
“I see the tired, the weak, the ones who needed sleep
I see the low down dirty wash their hands of the world.
I see the first, the last, the future and the past,
I see your body breathing but your mind’s asleep.”
Jenny McG writes:
I’m not sure what the protocal is about making posts but I wonder would you consider throwing this video up? The song – Digging Holes – is by Irish band The Raglans who are great, and the video is by 23 year old Cavan lad! I think it’s a great feel good song and really shows off the talent that we have in Ireland!
Thanks Stephen Hanley
Meanwhile: Nama Houses In 80% Price Drop (Simon Carswell and Mark Hennessy, Irish Times)
The bad-vibed Nobel winner writes:
Moreover, there seems to be little if any gain in return for the pain. Consider the case of Ireland, which has been a good soldier in this crisis, imposing ever-harsher austerity in an attempt to win back the favor of the bond markets. According to the prevailing orthodoxy, this should work. In fact, the will to believe is so strong that members of Europe’s policy elite keep proclaiming that Irish austerity has indeed worked, that the Irish economy has begun to recover.
But it hasn’t. And although you’d never know it from much of the press coverage, Irish borrowing costs remain much higher than those of Spain or Italy, let alone Germany. So what are the alternatives?
One answer — an answer that makes more sense than almost anyone in Europe is willing to admit — would be to break up the euro, Europe’s common currency. Europe wouldn’t be in this fix if Greece still had its drachma, Spain its peseta, Ireland its punt, and so on, because Greece and Spain would have what they now lack: a quick way to restore cost-competitiveness and boost exports, namely devaluation.
As a counterpoint to Ireland’s sad story, consider the case of Iceland, which was ground zero for the financial crisis but was able to respond by devaluing its currency, the krona (and also had the courage to let its banks fail and default on their debts). Sure enough, Iceland is experiencing the recovery Ireland was supposed to have, but hasn’t.
