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Saw pics of this shot in London last week, didn’t post it cos I thought they were renders!

via Autoblog

I think I’d prefer the mini monster truck, but I guess if I was going bulldozing I might want to do it in style?

Or perhaps they’ve taken up cloning? Fianna Failures do tend to look and act suspiciously similar…

• Longford’s concerns addressed with robust Lisbon deal
• Meath’s concerns addressed with robust Lisbon deal
• Kildare’s concerns addressed with robust Lisbon deal
• Laois/Offaly’s concerns addressed with robust Lisbon deal
• Louth’s concerns addressed with robust Lisbon deal
• North County Dublin’s concerns addressed with robust Lisbon deal

via Foot.ie.

You saw Hammond driving the new Murcielago in the desert in Dubai? Here’s some F1 cars doing the same…

Cork Politics published this a couple weeks ago*:

City council issued 1,565 litter fines in 2008

NEW figures unveiled by Cork City Council have revealed that the local authority issued 1,565 on the spot fines in 2008. A total of 670 of these were issued for offences committed at The Fairfield and Clashduv Road bring sites. The figure represents a substantial increase on the number of fines issued in 2007, something which the council attributes to a new pilot programme introduced last year whereby CCTV cameras were installed by Cork City Council at the bring sites at The Fairfield, Fairhill and Clashduv Road, Togher. Under The 1997 to 2003 Litter Pollution Acts fines are issued for any incidents of dumping .

The wife reckons there’s about 240 working days in the year, including annual leave. I emailed and asked how many wardens there are, and apparently there’s 3 wardens and 1 supervisor. Even if you assume the supervisor doesn’t issue fines, according to my (admittedly terrible) maths…

1565 / 240 = 6.5 / 3 = 2.16

…the Cork wardens are issuing just over 2 fines a day each? That can’t be right surely? Snowed under with paperwork? According to minutes from 2005 there’s more people to help when needed – 14 back then – so surely not. Is there some other kind of fine or work the wardens do? Seriously, it can’t just be 2 tickets a day like!

* I can’t check because for some bizarre reason their posts aren’t dated!

The Jalopnik guys are pretty scathing and there’s no really technical details but then who needs ‘em!? It’s a massive engine, with a supercharger, and zoomies, in a dinky frame, with 4 wheel steer. It’s awesome!

This is all over the news today. Sounds to a bad April 1 prank, have the lads their dates mixed up?

The Pirate Bay has been (effectively) acquired by a gaming company called Global Gaming Factory X, who is plunking down nearly $8 million for the privilege. Their grand, surprising plan for the Pirate Bay is to pay content providers. Seriously.

via Gizmodo.

This past Saturday, an entire apartment building in Shanghai collapsed. To be fair, the building was under construction and thus unoccupied, but it’s still a minor miracle that there was only one fatality.

via Giz.

Obsolete before it actually happens?

Top mobile telephone suppliers have agreed to back an EU-wide harmonization of phone chargers, the European Commission said on Monday, hailing the pact as good news for consumers and the environment.

The Commission said the agreement would involve the creation of an EU norm, and that the new generation of mobile phones would use a standard micro-USB socket to ensure compatibility.

via Reuters.