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Floppy Toccata & Fugue

10/02/2011

For those of you that remember floppy drives, this is just the best.

For the rest of ye… well, you had to be there…

Last Call

04/02/2011

Last call for beers in the Sextant tonight. I’ll be there for 7, hope a few of you will be able to leave your “friends” in loser-social-land for a little while to say hello. No offense like.

MMM: Not So Dinky

31/01/2011

Lorenzo Quinn’s “Vroom Vroom”, currently installed on Park Lane in London (where all the big-nob dealers hang out). That’s a real Fiat 500.

Halcyon Gallery: The four-metre high sculpture consists of a vintage Fiat 500, the first car that the sculptor ever bought, grasped by an oversized aluminium child’s hand modelled from Quinn’s son.

Autoblog

Come on langers, meet me for a pint!

28/01/2011

C’mon ye Facecrooks and Twits and feed reader fools, ye haven’t seen me for ages and I haven’t been outside a pint in ages. Come and join me for one in The Sextant on the First Friday of February, the Fourth, for Fun and Foolishness. There might be pig on a spit there, and if there isn’t there’ll be this pig gorging himself on lovely, lovely beer, and making an utter fool of himself. Sure what more could ye ask for!?

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:

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

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

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.