Things that make you go .....Hmmm, that's interesting.

[seafoid]

http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2014/07/04/annik-honore-dead-ian-curtis-les-disques-du-crepuscule/

Belgian-born journalist and music promoter Annik Honoré — girlfriend of Joy Division's Ian Curtis at the time of his death, the alleged inspiration for "Love Will Tear Us Apart" and the co-founder of the Les Disques du Crépuscule and Factory Benelux labels — died this week at the age of 56, according to press reports and associates.
Le Soir, a Belgian newspaper, reported that Honoré died Thursday "following a serious illness."
Last night, Joy Division bassist Peter Hook performed in Nottingham, England, and dedicated show-opener "Atmosphere" to Honoré. He tweeted: "Hope she's sat up there with Ian. RIP."
   

[Feckitt]

Aid for  back breaking work.

http://www.takepart.com/photos/7-healthcare-innovations-saving-lives-developing-world/a-better-way-to-collect-water?cmpid=tpdaily-eml-2014-09-16

The hippo water roller. Simple but ingenious.

Wheel invented in Africa!!

[Asal Mor]

I just watched the Louis Theroux documentary about big game hunting in Africa. I hadn't realised before that the money it brings in allows wild animals to flourish within the big game farms(which are huge and more like national parks than what we'd know as farms). In places without big game hunting animal numbers have been depleted. The hunting paradoxically keeps the animals alive. It's pretty ironic that every so often a picture of some hunter with their kill pops up on social media, to reams of abuse about how horrendous it is to kill an endangered animal.

It's a bit like Lough Corrib where the fishermen are keeping the lake stocked.

[seafoid]

Malandragem. It's a Brazilian word for cuteness in sport.
Like the Mikey sheehy free in 78 or that last Kilkenny goal in the AIF when the defender was taken out of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZmXWHH6N78
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pfbiH2vTj4
 

[AQMP]

BBC NI political correspondent Martina Purdy to become an nun?!?!?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-29548729

[Denn Forever]

Fair play,to her.  Brave decision.

[CD]

Fair play,to her.  Brave decision.

Do you think she'll have to grow a wee wispy nun-beard? Are they optional?

[seafoid]

This dude must be related to Syferus

http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/international/2014/1010/651509-gilbraltar-boss-if-were-minnows-so-are-brazil/

[seafoid]

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/technology/nude-snapchat-photos-reportedly-accessed-by-hacker-group-1.1959655

Nude Snapchat photos reportedly accessed by hacker group

Giant database of pictures which users thought were deleted released on chat forum



Snapchat allows users' messages to vanish after seconds.
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A giant database of Snapchat photos, reportedly including naked "selfies", has been released by hackers who have been collecting the files for years, it has been reported.

Business Insider said the notorious chat forum 4chan had referred to the hack as "The Snappening". It said underground photo-trading chat rooms had been filled in recent weeks with rumours.

The site claimed a third-party Snapchat client app had been collecting every single photo and video file sent through it for years, giving hackers access to a 13GB library of Snapchat pictures that users had believed were deleted.


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Users of 4chan have downloaded the files and are creating a searchable database that will allow people to search the stolen images by Snapchat username.

Snapchat said today it's not at fault for a leak of images from its service. Photos from Snapchat users were posted onto the internet yesterday, even though the Los Angeles-based startup bills itself as a service that deletes pictures after they're sent.

In a statement today, the company said it wasn't responsible for the incident and blamed third-party apps that people had been using with Snapchat for the leak.

"We can confirm that Snapchat's servers were never breached and were not the source of these leaks," Mary Ritti, a spokeswoman for the company, said in a statement.

"Snapchatters were victimised by their use of third-party apps to send and receive Snaps, a practice that we expressly prohibit in our Terms of Use precisely because they compromise our users' security."

Snapchat, which is valued at $10 billion (€7.93 billion), apologised for a breach earlier this year that caused data such as users' phone numbers to be exposed. The startup also had to settle claims by the USFederal Trade Commission in May that it deceived users by falsely promising its photo messages would "disappear forever" after they were shared, even though there are several workarounds. "

[Fiodoir Ard Mhacha]

Good on ya Sister Marty. I'd join the Reds if they'd have me.

[seafoid]

John Trudell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsAnIpt3zcE

[DrinkingHarp]

I was at a trade show for civil engineers in government positions, a vendor was showcasing this product for culvert lining but it seems the uses for the Concrete Cloth are endless.

http://www.wimp.com/bluetarp/#close

[seafoid]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_(given_name)

Jennifer is a feminine given name, a Cornish form of Guinevere/Gwenhwyfar[1] adopted into the English language during the 20th century.
It may mean "white enchantress"or "the fair one"[2] (from Proto-Celtic *Windo-seibrā "white phantom"). A Cornish form, it is cognate with the Welsh form Gwenhwyfar and with the Old Irish Findabair.[3]

Despite the name's similarity to the Old English words jenefer, genefer and jinifer, all of which were variants of Juniper used to describe the juniper tree,[4] there is no evidence that it comes from these.

It became a common first name for females in English-speaking countries during the 20th century.

The Welsh form Gwenhwyfar, which seems to be cognate with the Irish name Findabair, can be translated as "The White Enchantress" or "The White Fay/Ghost", from Proto-Celtic *Uindo- "white, fair, holy" + *seibara "magical being" (cognate with Old Irish síabair "a spectre, phantom, supernatural being [usually in pejorative sense]").[1][2][3][4][5]

Geoffrey of Monmouth rendered her name as Guanhumara in Latin (though there are many spelling variations found in the various manuscripts of his Historia Regum Britanniae). The name is given as Guennuuar in Caradoc's Vita Gildae, while Gerald of Wales refers to her as Wenneuereia. In the 15th century Middle Cornish play Bewnans Ke, she was called Gwynnever.

[Captain Obvious]

http://www.architecturendesign.net/25-of-the-most-creative-sculptures-and-statues-from-around-the-world/

[seafoid]

This book looks very interesting-Haunted Ireland by Tarquin Blake

http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/looking-for-a-haunting-tonight-we-ve-found-13-of-ireland-s-most-haunted-places-1.1982476?page=2

Glenuilin, Co Derry

Abhartach, the original male vampire – and arguably the first vampire legend in the world – is buried here, standing upright and upside down. Abhartach comes from laght-abhartach, "sepulchral monument of the dwarf", as this vicious blood-drinking black magic-practising monster was short of stature. The druids called him "red blood sucker" and said that he could not be killed unless he was pierced with a sword made of yew wood, then buried head downwards. The locals give the "bad ground" around his grave a wide berth, especially after dark.

Some say that Bram Stoker's word Dracula comes from the Irish droch-fhola, pronounced droc'ola, meaning "bad blood".