From De Paper. Note de caption. Given the Examiner’s proclivity towards this kind of thing, I often wonder if their proofreader is a blind elderly gentleman with ADHD, working in a darkened room. Perhaps he moonlights as a signwriter?
Answered by Stephen Lynch, via Graham.
Click the image for a Wikipedia explanation. I love the idea of the minature ferris wheel being delivered by a regular-sized crane!
From Google Earth Community, via Digg.
That the optics in lighthouses continue to rotate during the day because if they were allowed to settle, they’d act like a magnifying glass and set fire to something? I didn’t, although I kicked myself when I found out!
Thanks to the excellent guide at Hook Head for this little nugget.
Otto is looking for a good home! *sob*
Click the pic for the Carzone listing.
How good can Cork Comedy Festival’s organisation be when I hadn’t heard about it until Marcus’ post, less than two weeks before it starts? And when they can’t spell the name of the only act I actually recognise, Kevin McAleer? (Ed Byrne doesn’t count, near as I can tell he’ll do kid’s birthday parties if you pay for his travel expenses.)
However I’m into comedy and it’s my birthday the night Kevin’s playing, so I reckon I’ll catch an Improv session and himself in the Savoy on the 28th, if anyone would like to help me celebrate my – gasp – 35th. You won’t have to worry about my usual drunken routine, I’m on Lipotrim at the moment so I can’t drink anything bar water.
(I have to drink gallons of that, so at the very least you’ll get to laugh at me going to the toilet every 30 minutes, what with me having a bladder the size of an orange and all.)
Post a comment below if you’re coming. Good clean fun. It won’t be like you’re going out with me at all.
That Gideon from Criminal Minds (and Rube from Dead Like Me), was Inigo Montoya in the wonderful Princess Bride? I didn’t.
And no, your timing hasn’t been out when you’re looking at the titles, his name really is Mandy.
Great news for open source. Bizarre that the Italians went with a German distro though, and the French went with a South African one instead of Mandrakiva!
The Inquirer: The IT department of the Italian parliament today presented plans to begin migrating some 3500 desktop PCs, including those of its 630 MPs, away from Windows to SuSE Linux starting this September. The Camera dei deputati will also run SuSE on all of its two hundred servers.
This makes it the second and largest parliament in Europe to choose open sauce. The French parliament, with 577 seats, voted last year to have open sauce installed on all of its 1145 PCs. France decided on Ubuntu this February and the migration in the Parliament should be underway.
I’m not sure this’d wake my mot* from the depths, but dammit if it’s not a great idea for Normal People [TM].
* I don’t want to say ‘partner’, because, you know, I’m not a langer.
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