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Department of Cruel and Unusual Rules Human Rights Society

About Time

March 30, 2015 No Comments

Practice of jailing minors in adult prisons to end from this week: The practice of admitting minors to adult prisons is to cease from this week onwards. Until now, 17 year olds remanded in custody were typically placed in St Patrick’s Institution for young offenders, which forms part of the Mountjoy Prison complex. The Government […]

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Computing Department of Slightly Pointless Retro

The Mahler Project

March 30, 2015March 30, 2015 No Comments

A short documentary about an event inspired by a one liner in the original ZX Spectrum BASIC handbook. The challenge was to program in the entirety of Mahler’s First Symphony on the ZX Spectrum using Sinclair Basic. Evidently the original challenge wasn’t thought out – there isn’t enough room in a Speccy’s memory to hold […]

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Sounds

Friday Afternoon: Queenadreena, “Pretty Like Drugs”

March 27, 2015 No Comments

Katie-Jane Garside is just fantastic.

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Space

Jupiter & Saturn: Destroyer and Protector?

March 25, 2015April 16, 2015 No Comments

This is very interesting: Our solar system is weird. First of all, it doesn’t look much like other ones we’ve been finding. A lot of those have Jupiter-size giant planets orbiting very close in to their parents stars (“hot Jupiters”), closer even than Mercury orbits the Sun. By contrast, our Jupiter orbits the Sun much […]

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Bits & Bobs Humour

Not Our Division

March 24, 2015May 16, 2015 No Comments

Today:

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Arts Life People Privilege

Brave

March 9, 2015March 9, 2015 No Comments

Four years ago, intimate photographs of Danish journalist Emma Holten were posted on the web. Thousands viewed them and she still receives online harassment. The issues of revenge porn and hacked photos are part of a larger problem with our relationship to consent, she argues. So Holten decided to pose for and release a new […]

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Arts Sounds

Friday Afternoon: The Frank Popp Ensemble – Breakaway

March 6, 2015 No Comments

Some northern soul funkiness.

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Photography

Frosted Morn’

March 6, 2015 No Comments

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Nature & Gardens Photography

Winter Park

March 6, 2015 No Comments

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History Parenting & Children Society

Children and Play in the Holocaust

March 5, 2015July 10, 2015 No Comments

Jason Kottke has been doing some reading on children and play, specifically Peter Gray, and has posted a fascinating snippet: In a chapter on the role of play in social and emotional development, Gray discusses play that might be considered inappropriate, dangerous, or forbidden by adults: fighting, violent video games, climbing “too high”, etc. As […]

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