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John Mulvihill, Labour Litterer

27/01/2011

Banners for John Mulvihill, Labour councillor and candidate for Cork East, on the Midleton and Cobh overpasses on the N25 since the start of the week. I’ve also seen posters on the Cobh side of Fota, as well as posters for Fine Gael’s David Stanton. In both cases, these candiates are demonstrating that they either:

  1. believe the law on political litter doesn’t apply to them; or
  2. are unaware of the law, despite massive media coverage this week.

In either case, are these the kind of people you want representing you?

John Mulvihill, Labour Litterer
John Mulvihill, Labour Litterer
John Mulvihill, Labour Litterer
John Mulvihill, Labour Litterer

Time Lapse Antarctica

25/01/2011

BoingBoing: The Akademik Fyodorov is a Russian research ship that’s been to both the North Pole*, and to Antarctica. This time-lapse video packs an entire 201-day Antarctic expedition into 10 minutes, starting in Cape Town, South Africa, and traveling around the coastline of the Frozen Continent.

What happens? There’s a lot of ice breaking—during which the Akademik Fyodorov seems to beach itself like a whale before backing up and ramming the ice again—and a lot of loading and unloading of cargo. It looks like the boat’s mission was to resupply several inland research stations. At one point, a helicopter unloads the coffin of a man who died in a fire at one of those stations. The Akademik Fyodorov shipped his body back home.

There are frolicking penguins, the construction of an entire airplane, and (at about 7:19) the construction on an on-deck swimming pool, which is quickly filled with frolicking Russians.

Tax The Canvassers

25/01/2011

With a coin operated doorbell. Bring it up to date, make it a euro or two. Or billion.

Coin Operated Doorbell
Coin Operated Doorbell

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Dueling Cellos

24/01/2011

Despite the obvious staging, and guys that are doubtless dickheads, I love this.

The poster’s comment is also unfathomably funny:

The winner gets to play a cool instrument.

MMM: Dakar 2011 Pics

24/01/2011

From the Boston Globe Big Picture, make sure you click through to the rest. Sadly the Big Picture editor has left for The Atlantic, hopefully the Globe will get some equally talented to pick up where he left off, and we’ll have two feeds of fab photos!

Volkswagen's Nasser Al-Attiyah, from Qatar, and co-driver Timo Gottschalk, from Germany, compete in the 11th stage of the 2011 Argentina-Chile Dakar Rally between Chilecito and San Juan, Argentina, Thursday,Jan. 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Volkswagen's Nasser Al-Attiyah, from Qatar, and co-driver Timo Gottschalk, from Germany, compete in the 11th stage of the 2011 Argentina-Chile Dakar Rally between Chilecito and San Juan, Argentina, Thursday,Jan. 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Qatar's driver Nasser Al-Attiyah steers his Volkswagen (bottom) with German co-driver Timo Gottschalk, followed by Spain's driver Carlos Sainz with co-driver Lucas Cruz on January 10, 2011 on the stage 8 Atacama - Copiapo of the Dakar 2011 Rally. (DANIEL GARCIA/AFP/Getty Images)
Qatar's driver Nasser Al-Attiyah steers his Volkswagen (bottom) with German co-driver Timo Gottschalk, followed by Spain's driver Carlos Sainz with co-driver Lucas Cruz on January 10, 2011 on the stage 8 Atacama - Copiapo of the Dakar 2011 Rally. (DANIEL GARCIA/AFP/Getty Images)

MMM: Lexus Carbon Fibre Loom

24/01/2011

You may have seen this before, Lexus pulled it some time ago and just re-released it.

I love it when something that looks like sci-fi is actually real. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry9uiP2I6kQ&feature=player_embedded

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