Found these while poking around the warehouse earlier. Windows 95 installer, all thirteen disks! Twenty years young.
Interview with Joel Meyerowitz where he discusses the way he approaches his work. “When I think about my photographs, I understand that my interest all along has not been in identifying a singular thing, but in photographing the relationship between things. The unspoken relationship, the tacit relationship, the impending relationship. All of these variables are […]
The new 10 year Defence white paper is to be published today – “Government plans to strengthen Defence Forces” (RTÉ): The Government is to provide new and upgraded equipment for the Army, Naval Service and Air Corps, including new aircraft, naval ships and armoured personnel carriers. The plan also commits to doubling the number of […]
“Happy Birthday, Linux!”, announced slashdot today. I’ve been a user for a long time, my first direct experience of Linux was with a tiny district that shipped on four floppy disks, which even back in 1996 (I think, maybe 1997) was tight. I still remember being amazed that it could read from floppy while doing […]
“Irish Water accused of endangering Lahinch’s Blue Flag” (Irish Examiner)
Amanda Marcotte makes an link between GOP nominee hopeful Donald Trump and the ‘Sad/Rabid Puppies’ over on the Slate: As Jeet Heer at the New Republic notes in a piece about Donald Trump, this kind of reactionary rhetoric is often framed as populist, but it is in fact “the voice of aggrieved privilege—of those who already are doing […]
The FT contradicts itself a bit here I think: The works-traffic is being compounded by large construction projects, many of them residential, such as those at the Nine Elms area in south-west London and Elephant and Castle, a symbol of the rampant property market in the capital. More capacity is also being taken up by […]
We’re paying €28m a year to private toll road operators thanks to ‘minimum traffic’ clauses that were agreed to in a time of increasing traffic flows and as an incentive to the operators to invest the building of the roads in the first place. The department is now examining whether removing tolls would increase traffic […]
