Irish Times Letters
How joyous?
This joyous:
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Twitter is now “worth” $7 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Twice what it was worth in December.
Prompting the following on website Gawker:
Twitter Is Magically Worth $7 Billion Somehow (Gawker)
Illustration: Annie West
Woman’s Own?!
Where do you think they got all those knitting patterns from?
Jonathan Ross on Twitter
Thanks Carla Ryan
This is a story about a claim that Brooks was confronted by the police over allegations of her journalists targetting a murder detective. An astonishing story which at one point, we’ve been told, had the police secretly watching the News of the World watching the police.
News Of The World Targets Met Police Detective (Channel 4 News)
Via Take A Weird Break
The Screws?
Gotcha
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Tomorrow’s Independent.
First Sony, then Fox News and Apple Inc, now online payment service PayPal.
Well, PaypalUK’s Twitter feed anyway.
The company’s UK PayPal Twitter feed was breached as the person behind the hacking this evening started posting messages and ‘retweeting’ other people’s messages.
A spokesman said: ‘PayPal UK’s Twitter feed was targeted by hackers tonight. PayPal would like to reassure all customers that PayPal’s UK customer systems and data have not been breached or hacked in any way. There is no link between customer systems and our Twitter account.’
(Thanks @cairotango)
Uh Oh
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Behind You!
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No, seriously.
There’s a bloke behind you.
Taken this afternoon outside the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin.
Samantha Mumba (‘Girl Friday’) and Brian Gilligan (Robinson Crusoe) launching bookings for the Christmas panto ‘Robinson Crusoe and the Caribbean Pirates’.
A bit early no?
Oh yes it is.
Etc.
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
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Some really impressive CG animation: a futuristic re-imagining of the 1981 Brixton riots by Kibwe Tavares.
Music: ‘The Great Insurrection’ by DJ Hiatus.
Brixton has degenerated into a disregarded area inhabited by London’s new robot workforce – robots built and designed to carry out all of the tasks which humans are no longer inclined to do. The mechanical population of Brixton has rocketed, resulting in unplanned, cheap and quick additions to the skyline.
The film follows the trials and tribulations of young robots surviving at the sharp end of inner city life, living the predictable existence of a populous hemmed in by poverty, disillusionment and mass unemployment. When the Police invade the one space which the robots can call their own, the fierce and strained relationship between the two sides explodes into an outbreak of violence echoing that of 1981.
Sound up, full screen.