Seamus Hegarty writes:
I saw the people of Ballyhea [County Cork] protesting the bailout today (and took some pics). It made me think, if the people of this small village can come out and brave todays weather to protest the bailout, what the hell are the rest of us doing?
March 18, 2010: Sean Fitzpatrick arrested while Brian Cowen is in the US. March 31, 2010: Brian Lenihan issues promissory note for €8.3bn, bringing the government’s investment in Anglo Irish bank to €12.3 billion
November 1, 2011: €715m Anglo bond due. Former Anglo executive Willie McAteer arrested.
December 5 and 6, 2011: Budget measures including €1.6bn in tax rises unveiled. December 10. Sean Fitzpatrick arrested.
January 25, 2012: €1.25bn Anglo bond due. Ivor Callely arrested.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN5jPQdJXYE
For those who built this.
From i09;
Youtuber BabelColour has lovingly condensed almost five decades of Who history into this 10-minute supercut that catalogs “every Doctor Who adventure from ‘An Unearthly Child’ in 1963 right up to ‘The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe’ Christmas Special.”
Paddy writes:
For the hipster-haters amongst us, a new platform to relish in our distaste of the nonsense they [hipsters] tend to spew. Please contribute!
Get in there before they go mainstream.
US citizens w/ bachelor’s in eng, science or math + 3 yrs experience? Apply to be an astronaut by Friday! go.nasa.gov/wVrJDe
— NASA (@NASA) January 25, 2012
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v26OZtpbPk
WITHOUT hands.
The Road Train.
We suspect this may be a wind-up:
The SARTRE project (Safe Road Trains for the Environment) has successfully completed the first test demonstrations of a multiple vehicle platoon. The test fleet included a lead truck followed by three cars driven entirely autonomously at speeds of up to 90 km/h – with no more than a 6 metre gap between the vehicles.
Hmm.
A simple, excellent short: written and directed by UK animator Felix Massie.
This is Keith Reynolds and today is promotion day. Having worked at the company eight years he is the most senior Junior Business Analyst in the building. He’s been waiting for this day for a very long time.
Is that really where Rovers play?
