Ronan Morrison writes:

Myself and three  friends are attempting to break a world record over this weekend. We will be playing Fifa 2012 for 2012 minutes (33.5hrs) all in aid of Children in Hospital Ireland.  [Can we] get a bit of coverage on Broadsheet to get a bit more publicity and hopefully raise a bit more money for the cause?

Fifa 4 Fun (Facebook)

The Fifa 2012 Challenge (Mycharity.ie)

Regarding their online interactive timeline, the New York Times sez:

Since no supercomputer can yet predict the future, we need your help. Readers are invited to make predictions and collaboratively edit this timeline, which is divided into three sections: a sampling of past advances, future predictions that you can push forward or backward in time (but not, of course, into the past), and a form for making and voting on predictions. The most prescient prophet might receive an iPad 2 in 2050. But if the past is any guide, this prediction will almost surely be wrong.

Fun though. Make your stab in the dark here.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soyZZ_liN38

The Rorshach Mask $35. Styled to match Jackie Earle Haley’s Watchmen character. Impregnated with non toxic fabric ink that reacts to the heat from the wearer’s breath.

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Health minister Dr James Reilly TD is driven to the back door of Government Buildings this morning in a Jaguar before his appearance at the Sub-Committee on Health and Children concerning the Provision of General Practitioner Services Bill 2011.

(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)

“As Lord Acton so memorably said, ‘All power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.’ Unchecked power, whether assumed or given, always has the same outcome.”

 

Deference Not Reverence Let McQuaid Rule Country (Mary Kenny, Irish Independent)

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