The Bird’s Nest by O*GE Creative Group looks like the coolest kid’s bed ever. Then you read the blurb:

The “Giant Birdsnest for creating new ideas” was conceived and created by O*GE as a prototype for new and inspiring socializing space, which can be seen as a morph of furniture and playground. Its powerful, yet simple concept and intriguing character needs no explanation or user manual: Ready to to be used, to be played in, and be worked in. With its 4.50 m diameter the big version can host up to 16 people at once, offering a comfortable and sensual soft space, various siting positions, configurations for informal meetings and social exchange.

Guys, this is Aoibheann from marketing. Aoibheann, why don’t you go ahead and join us here in the nest?

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We understand Darren Martyn (above), 25 (according to court papers but looking considerably younger in his Facebook picture above), from Co Galway who has been charged with two counts of ‘computer hacking conspiracy’, last night wrote, under his alias Infodox, to Boards.ie about his arrest:

Knew it would come out eventually… Feck. Oh well… I suppose one cannot hide forever from their past. I had gone kinda-whitehat just a small bit before my arrest, and since my arrest have worked to try “rehabilitate” self by contributing as much as I can to the open source/security community while I remain at liberty to do so. We *really* were not too bright (oh, the wonders of hindsight) and I have been regretting it since *before* I got caught. As I have said in the past – going blackhat is probably the most stupid thing you can do. I had to learn that the hard way.
Funny fact: Topiary suspected Sabu was a narc, ‘cos he vanished for a while and when he came back he *never* owned another box. He just did the shouty thing.

 

We wish him the best.

Infodox (Boards.ie)

Whitehat?

After Hacker Arrests, an Attack on the Vatican and a Growing Anxiety (New York Times)

Earlier: FBI: “Garda Blunder” Led To LulzSec Conference Call Leak

 

You may recall yesterday’s Lexicon Tee competition:

The winners

Liathain I deserve a Lexicon Tee because…*points at fifth row left, fourth row right and runs finger along ninth row*

Kolmo: I deserve a Lexicon Tee because…chociaż mogę mówić 5 języków nie lubię mówić do innych ludzi, mogę tylko wskazywać i wykorzystywać moje brwi to dostać to, czego potrzebuję fioletowy małpa zmywarki

Hector: I deserve a Lexicon Tee because…I haven’t a bob to my name and not a hope of going to the finals, but it’ll keep me warm and I can tell my grandkids I was there and have the Tee to prove it.

Symapathy Tee to:
Dave: I deserve a Lexicon Tee because…my girlfriend is Polish, I’m probably going to Poland in the summer and I speak about three or four words, this would be a godsend. Please, please, please! also her parents don’t speak any English so it would help for that too.

Close but no Tee for thee:

Spud: I deserve a Lexicon Tee because…*points to bare, awesome t-shirt-less covered, chest*.

Crivens: I deserve a Lexicon Tee because…I need an excuse for touching my nipples in public.

Lexicon Tees here.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIGzpi9lCck

Mercedes likes to describe their zero-emissions F-Cell hydrogen electric car as being ‘invisible to the environment’.

In a clever bid to share this catchy tagline with the world, the car manufacturer commissioned the above public-reaction-harvesting viral. You’ll probably guess how the car’s ‘invisibility’ is created long before the reveal, but it’s still an impressive effect.

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With past winners that include where-are-they-now Super Extra Bonus Party [above] (who won the award in 2007) and others who didn’t quite parlay their prize into any sense of a significant breakthrough here or abroad, does the Choice Music Prize really matter to anyone outside a media in-crowd? Can the Choice really deliver on the promises it proclaimed when it was set-up in 2005?

Judging panel should keep Choice real (Brian Boyd, Irish Times)

Which elicited this:

Super Extra Bonus Party (Facebook)

And that dedication:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7hCJxfflgU

Thanks Meg Hyland

Do you like your smileys?

If you answered :) to that, then Emojicons is the single serving site for you: every keyboard pictogram under the sun, updated constantly, ready for cutting, pasting and begging for your input.

Created by Huy Hong, who also inflicted this on the interwebs. Hong sez:

Welcome to Emojicons, your one-stop plot of internet land for every ლ(╹◡╹ლ), ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, ಠ_ಠ, and (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ you can possibly imagine. We’re here to serve your every textual need, providing a relentless number of ways to refine your chats, tweets, IMs, Facebook posts, YouTube responses, Reddit comments, forum flaming, rage quitting, trolling, and every other type of written discourse.

Get your smiley on here.

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