hip transport at spencer dock @broadsheet_ie twitter.com/hip_2be_square…
— Shane Cafferty (@hip_2be_square) March 2, 2012
Damn two-wheeled, self-balancing hipsters
hip transport at spencer dock @broadsheet_ie twitter.com/hip_2be_square…
— Shane Cafferty (@hip_2be_square) March 2, 2012
Damn two-wheeled, self-balancing hipsters
This is my cat Celso, we recently moved back to Galway from San Diego with him. Perhaps this is causing some kind of existential cat crisis?
Previously
Existential Golden Retriever From Kilkenny
Existential Pets to Broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
Avid meme-tracker, the US Department Of Homeland Security likes to keep tabs on, well, just about everything it seems.
Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, some documentation pertaining to social media monitoring was released, documentation that just happened to contain the full list — presumably — of words that the DHS likes to keep an eye on.
Here’s a small sample:
Homeland Security’s Long, Long List of Social Media Watch Words (Geekosystem)
IMF issues fairly stark warning about Ireland – I’ll have more on @newstalknews on @newstalkfm at 16.00
— Páraic Gallagher(@paraicgallagher) March 2, 2012
Cloud That’s The Spitting Image Of A Camel (Mail Online)
Not a patch on this little gangster. Remember?
The Cloud Above Manhattan That Looks Like Ireland (by Joe and Tina Buggy)
It’s taken Amy a year to perfect it.
Kidding.
About six months.
Via Woodser11
Meanwhile, via James M Chimney, this is how they serve the same brew in Munster:
Pick you favourite Bruce Springsteen track and we shall play it at 4.30pm.
Otherwise it’s Jedward’s Waterline.
Former English Rugby World Cup winner, Ben Cohen, “the first straight sportsman to dedicate himself to stamping out homophobic bullying”, and Ireland’s first openly-gay GAA star Donal Og Cusack minutes ago launching Stand Up! Awareness Week (March 5-11) at the Mansion House, Dublin.
Earlier: The Best Irish Anti-Bullying/Homophobia Ad You’ll See Today


This is the 3200ft (979m) high Angel Falls in Venezuela – the world’s highest. Close by are the similarly vertiginous Dragon Falls and Cortina Falls. It’s the landscape that inspired Pixar’s Up.
AirPano have an incredible 360º hi-res interactive panorama which (if you have a half decent internet connection) you should check out this minute.
Get your vertigo on here.
UPDATE: Don’t forget to mute the audio. Pan pipes ahead. (Thanks Aaaaaaaa)