“The legend of St Valentine is a tale of true love that transcends mere sentiment.”
Oh.
Meanwhile, over on the Irish Independent‘s letters page:
No, Wheely
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Members of animal rights groups Peta and ARAN (second pic) left-right: Stuart Clancy, Helena Reishin Holmes, Marika Rea, and Ross Hathaway, in Grafton Street, Dublin yesterday nakedly urging the Minister of Agriculture to include a ban of fur farms in the impending Animal Welfare Bill.
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall ireland)
More elucidation from smartypants C.G.P. Grey. He of 10 Common Misconceptions.
(Hat tip: Stephen Colvert)
They are. Now look at these funny pictures.
Kidding.
From the Tumblr Fed Valentines wherein economist and Fed Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke brings the fiscal love.
(Hat tip: @NiamhCal)
11-year-old chimpanzee Ayumu lives and trains at Kyoto University’s Primate Research Institute where he famously excels at an apparently simple but actually extremely difficult memorization game. The above ABC report dates from 2007, when Ayumu first came to fame.
Ayumu is shown the numbers 1 to 9 on a computer screen, and given just a fraction of a second to commit their randomized location to memory. Once that fraction of a second is up, the numbers are covered with white squares, at which point Ayumu must select them in numerical order.
Long story short: he’s better at it than you.
Try this online flash game that replicates the original study.
So how does he do it?
READ ON: This chimp will kick your ass at memory games — but how the hell does he do it?
CONTEMPT OF court proceedings have been initiated against the bankrupt businessman Seán Quinn, his son Seán Quinn jnr, and his nephew, Peter Darragh Quinn.
The Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, formerly Anglo Irish Bank, yesterday filed a motion in the High Court seeking to have the three found in contempt of court for breaches of an injunction preventing them from moving certain assets.
The injunction was issued in July last year by Mr Justice Frank Clarke.
Persons found to be in contempt of court can have their property seized or be committed to prison.
Allegations rejected, position to be defended vigorously, vast €500m foreign property portfolio increasingly unlikely to form part of the kids. inheritance, yadda, yadda.
Man, this popcorn is going stale.
Anglo takes contempt of court action against Quinns
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Cian Ó Néill sez:
I was peeling spuds for the dinner the other evening and came across this gem of a potato. This would bring tears to the eye of a stone and would guarantee you the shift at the very least if brought to Coppers etc.
Ah, 2006. The boomerest, the most boomer of them all.