httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIJINiK9azc
Air Swimmers. Demo’d six months ago. Now available to buy for about $40 each.
At the time of posting, the online store had fallen over, most likely due to demand.
Sure.
On Tuesday night, Sam Smyth, guesting for Vincent Browne, and Peter Mathews TD conducted the following exchange
Sam Smyth: “I’ve been asked to do this, by the way [opening the Sunday Times]. Peter, something was given to me before – I don’t know if you can get that in camera but it says here: ‘New TD Says He’s Better Than Noonan… Peter Mathews says he’s not (unintelligible) and denies irritating the finance minister’. This is because you apparently said you are more experienced…”
Mathews: “Sorry Sam. Did you know that the Sunday Times, the Sunday Times has apologised because that was an untrue headline? So, just to let, put it on the record.”
Smyth: “Do you think that you have more experience than Michael Noonan?”
Mathews: “No I never said that. I never said that. and it was a misleading and untrue headline and the Sunday Times has apologised for it. So, yeah, so fair dues.”
Smyth: “Well listen I didn’t know that now. I presume they’re going to print it on Sunday…”
Mathews: “I was telephoned on Sunday to say that they apologised.”
Smyth: “Yeah.”
Mathews: “And there’s no connection, if you read the article, with the headline. There’s no connection.”
Smyth: “Well, just I saw this, that you apparently said…”
Mathews: “It’s disappointing but these things happen. Sure today’s newspaper is tomorrow’s fish and chips wrapper.”
Smyth: “That is true, and I very often write these things myself.”
So far so indignant.
Enter Twitter (FrankSunTimes is the Sunday Times editor in ireland))
FIGHT!!!!
Update: The feud has since been amicably settled, we learn. It was the headline Mathews objected to and not the article and, we are told, the paper will clarify everything on Sunday. Bah.
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Even if this letter had reached its intended recipient a month before the invasion of Poland instead of being intercepted by British Intelligence, it’s unlikely to have prevented WW2.
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RTÉ News (following a Freedom of Information request to the US Department of Defence), has obtained documents that apparently show the US offered to stop using Shannon in 2007 (following protests at the airport) but were told by the then government that this would send out the “wrong signal” – namely that anti-war-activists had won.
The documents released show that the head of the US Military Transport Command (USTRANSCOM) said the previous Irish Government did not want them to stop using Shannon Airport following a spate of attacks on US aircraft there.
Speaking in 2007, General John W. Handy, said they were told the Irish Government was afraid that if they withdrew from Shannon following the attacks, it would send out a signal that the protestors had won and the Irish State did not want that.
He acknowledged that USTRANSCOM need the use of Shannon and they did not want to have a group of protestors run them out of Ireland.
However, if the Government had asked them to quit, they would have.
For at least 15 years, Zabar’s, the Upper West Side grocery with the big crowds and even bigger prices, sold it as lobster salad — thousands and thousands of pounds of it, by itself in a plastic tub or on a bagel or a roll. Apparently no one noticed.
Then Doug MacCash, a reporter from The Times-Picayune of New Orleans, stopped at Zabar’s while vacationing in Manhattan last month.
“Lobster salad on a bagel: Why not?” he wrote on Aug. 1 on the newspaper’s Web site. “It was delicious, but the pink/orange tails seemed somehow familiar.”
He checked the label. “Wild fresh water crayfish?” he wrote. “Really? At $16.95 per pound?” He photographed the label, just to be sure.
Mr. MacCash had discovered a fact of New York culinary life that New Yorkers had not: There was no lobster in the lobster salad at Zabar’s.
Lobster Salad But A key Ingredient is Missing (James Barron, New York Times)
Thanks Barry H
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The Burning House is a site dedicated to pictures of the personal items that various folk from around the world (but mainly photographers) consider too important to lose. More eye-candy than social commentary, it’s still strangely compelling.
If your house was burning, what would you take with you? It’s a conflict between what’s practical, valuable and sentimental. What you would take reflects your interests, background and priorities. Think of it as an interview condensed into one question.
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You’ve probably heard of Bosco chocolate syrup. It was hugely popular in the 1950’s and early 1960’s and pop culture has ensured it’s place as a true bit of Americana. Bosco Syrup was often referenced on the popular TV show Laverne & Shirley, for example, and black-and-white horror movies through the late 1960’s used Bosco as a stand-in for blood.
Yikes.
Bosco Chocolate Bar (Dave’s Cupboard)
Thanks Bibi Baskin Robbins
Meanwhile, in the New York Times…
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW3p5Ol7oUI&feature=player_embedded