A quite bizarre post Bad journalism, disguised protectionism on Atlantic blog about Dr Michael Sachs the New York plastic surgeon in the news because of the death of Irishwoman Kay Cregan (or Kelly as he calls her) after he operated on her. The author thinks that efforts to bring him to Ireland to operate on disfigured children was blocked because of protectionism and that RTE were remiss in not pointing this out. Presumably the author hasn’t read this article on the New York Times about Dr Sachs or this article in the Irish Times which mentions that Dr Sachs was banned by the New York Board of Professional Medical Conduct from carrying out complex “revisionist” surgery on patients without outside medical supervision or even heard this interview with NY Times journalist Warren St John about his investigation into Dr Sachs. But I guess you don’t want to let facts get in the way of a ideological position, sounds like mindless partisan noises to me.
An extraordinary gallery of French base jumping photographs, the one above by Laurent Filoche. If that looks like fun maybe you could consider a polar base jumping trip to Baffin Island and jump off this.
If you really want to you can read the script of Star Wars Episode III the revenge of George Lucas, I’ve scoured the script but still can’t find out how Anakin gains 3 feet to become Darth Vader oops gave away the ending. I laugh but I’ll go see it anyway if only to say worse episode ever.
A George Lucas story. I heard this from a relative who works in a fancy Hollywood job on the techie side of making fancy Hollywood films. A friend of hers was working for a few weeks sound editing in Lucas’ Skywalker ranch. One day ahe was waiting in line to get lunch when she noticed that George Lucas was in front of her in the line. Now normally in Hollywood Directors and stars don’t mix with the ‘help’ so she was pretty impressed with how down to earth he was eating in the same canteen as everyone else and decided to make small talk with him. All went fine she got her lunch and thought no more of it. Next day a memo went around to everyone and I quote Employees are reminded that if they see Mr Lucas in the canteen they are NOT to talk to him. True story!
An Italian coffin manufacturer who uses scantily clad models to sell his wares, sounds like a Joey Skaggs spoof to me.
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An original print of Robert Doisneau’s Baiser de l’Hotel de Ville was sold at auction by Francoise Bornet (the subject) for
From Troika studios a handheld battery powered projector which projects text messages.
Sandy Crombie inept boss of Standard Life has had to apologise for anti Irish comments when he said a switch to year-end reporting from mid-November made 2004 a 13 and a half month year ‘if that doesn’t seem too Irish’. OK Irish people in the UK nowadays are no longer a vulnerable minority but generations of Irish people had no choice but to put up with anti Irish ‘jokes’, discrimination and the infamous no blacks, no Irish, no dogs signs. Now that the boot is on the other foot I think it’s our responsibility to stamp on this type of thing with extreme prejudice although some may say it’s just a gaffe it reveals an underlying mindset, if you were working for this clown would you fancy your promotion chances? Lets hope it’s a Ratner moment.
UbuWeb has launched a collection of historic artist’s films to download including Luis Bu
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WalkSpace for the iPhone is an alternative walking app to let you navigate the city in a new and unexpected way.
