Gulp.

There is something compellingly simple about MailOnline. No fancy site navigation, picture carousels or slideshows – just a front page with stories and pictures. Thousands of them.

The New York Times claims it is still the world’s most popular newspaper websites, because the Mail figures include visits to sister sites.

But let that not detract from the British newspaper’s achievement in going from nowhere to 45.3 million unique visitors a month in just five years. What is its secret?

 How the Daily Mail stormed the US (BBC)


Astronomical by UK based artist Mishka Henner: a scale representation of our solar system in book form. Ten 506 page volumes covering the entire distance from the Sun to Pluto with each page representing a distance of 1 million km.

Earth shows up on page 155 of Volume 1.

You can buy the entire ten-volume set for £100. It is, quite simply, the best thing ever.

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ0ESSfO-FE

Oh, until Monday at least.

For the full Davos panel discussion thing (it’s looong) click here. Worth it to see the taoiseach appear strikingly pompous. It’s the Swiss air, they say.

Earlier: Dumb And Dumber

 

Previously: RTE Guide, Only Better

January 26, 1970.

From the National Library of Ireland:

A mirror image of this image up the hill from the early 1900s

Can you identify the makes of all the visible veh-icles?

National Library Of Ireland Flickr Stream

 

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