“The White Oak used for the frames dates back over 100 years. The eyewear is packaged in a custom wooden whiskey crate, with a crowbar to pry it open.”

 

The Bushmills Whiskey Barrell Sunglasses (ExperimentWithNature)

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Yes, it’s new Supreme Court Judges, Justice John MacMenamin (left) and Justice Frank Clarke pictured in the main yard of the Four Courts literally moments ago after making their “constitutional declaration” in the Supreme Court.

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)


In a great TED talk – short, funny and sharp as a tack – comic author Rob Reid reveals the maths behind claims made by the copyright lobby – figures which are being used to justify SOPA, PIPA, ACTA and their stripe.

Ars Technica’s Ken Fisher sez of Reid’s philosophy:

The brilliance of Reid’s talk is that he thoroughly skewers the content industry’s dubious appeal to quantitative reasoning. We’ve all see the headlines proclaiming huge numbers of dollars, jobs, and patents lost to piracy. The appeal to quantitative measures is supposed to undermine counterarguments by doing two things: slyly stepping into a (pretend) world of objectivity, and raising the alarm with big, scary numbers. It’s hard to look at those kinds of headlines in the same way after Reid’s elegantly hilarious skewering.

Copyright Math: a quantitative reasoning master class by Rob Reid (Ars Technica)

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“Moral gatekeepers of the documentary wrongly ask if Nuala [O’Faolain] was bisexual? A trivial detail like gender would never have prevented Nuala from loving another. Nuala was sexual, I was irresistible. Readers, we loved each other.”

 

Nell McCafferty, Irish Times Letters.

(RTE)

Taken minutes ago.

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UPDATE: Yes, it’s Sean Quinn Jnr on the first day of a contempt of court challenge by Anglo at the High Court against him, his cousin, Peter Quinn and his father, Sean Snr (below):

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

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