Archive for September, 2008
Here is a breakdown of the History of the mighty Google Geeks and to think they’re only ten years in the business, it only seems like yesterday when i was their only fan in the world, they must have only been nippers back then (sob, sniff) They grow up so fast. To see the timeline of events follow the link below.
http://www.google.ie/tenthbirthday/#start
Here’s to the greatest company in the World at the moment, long live the Kings of Communications !
To view my previous post on Google click here
After the “
God, Evolution and Charles Darwin” debate has arisen again , in its infinite wisdom is a many facetted and twisted thing to ensure the Christianity gets another public wringing out. I digest that I, for once will sit on the fence and throw some interesting nays and yays into the mix. I mean come on, where are the forward and original thinkers in all this? Where’s the positive from the negative, theres just none, eh?
So without further ado, here goes, and we’ll let you decide…
The Yay’s
1. “My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tell you.” Benjamin Jowett
2. “I admire the Pope. I have a lot of respect for anyone who can tour without an album.” Rita Rudner.
3. ”Thank God I’m an atheist.” Luis Bunuel.
4. “If there were no God, there would be no atheists” Gilbert K. Chesterton
5. “God is good to the Irish, but no one else is; not even the Irish” Anon
6. “A key to the understanding of all religion is that a god’s idea of amusement is ‘Snakes and Ladders’ with greased rungs.” Terry Pratchett
The Nay’s:
1. “Going to church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car. ” Garrison Keillor
2. “More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure.” Essayist
3. “The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren’t dangerous enough already.” Edward Abbey
4. “When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.” Peter O’Toole.
5. “When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn’t work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.” Emo Philips.
6. “When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, ‘Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don’t believe?” Quentin Crisp.
And I’ll finish it off, to quote you an original
“God is an Atheist, unless he believes in himself “ Philip Hickey
All you have to do is open this PDF documents, you will not believe your eyes when you follow the Url’s!
The answers-to-guess-the-images pdf just click here and follow the links!
the origional post is here if you wish to check out the images first!
http://blogs.ballyfermot.ie/philiphickey/2008/08/14/can-you-guess-what-it-is/
The $3.8 billion Large Hadron Collider has worked today, without destroying the Universe sadly. The long 20 year wait for some, surmounted all expectations by producing two white dots on a monitor, which didn’t then fly around the room chopping off heads as some naysayers had predicted “There it is,” project leader Lyn Evans said when the beam completed its lap” when ” two white dots flashed on a computer screen at 10:36 a.m.” See artists own impression below left (click to enlarge)
“Well done everybody,” said Robert Aymar, director-general of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, to cheers from the assembled scientists in the collider’s control room at the Swiss-French border.
Mr Robert Aymar is probably happy to see the black hole creator not doing its thing just right now, see the predicted effect above left (Click to enlarge). This caused some to tear up their betting slips in abject outrage, most of whom had hoped to collect their winnings after spagettification. Now that just plain sucks, dont it?
“The skeptics theorized that a byproduct of the collisions could be micro black holes, subatomic versions of collapsed stars whose gravity is so strong they can suck in planets and other stars.” So there, horray for the skeptics I say, who says that thinking about being sucked into a hole isn’t fun or politically correct these days. The recession anybody?
It’s nonsense,” said James Gillies, chief spokesman for CERN, before Wednesday’s start.
What’s this nonsense then? The $1.9 Billion per white dot or that cutbacks will force you to do with just one white dot on your screen and what can you do with half a black hole anyway, eh? Whats that? Pour more money in? Hmmm…
Full story here
Yes it is, isn’t it, in the land of the free-flowing water, the ” Emerald Isle” , choc full of greeny goodness is now known to be due to water leakage. In a very cleaver and underhanded use of the liquid gold, H2O, the powers that be in Ireland have decided to siphon off ” 43pc of all water produced ” for use in the national drainage network i.e. broken pipes, inadequate and ancient water transportation devices that bleed the national reserves dry .
Today headlines of “ Key cities may run short of water in five years ” is then no real surprise. I suppose the emergency initiative of ” Drown the rats appeal ” and ” Keep the water underground ” ideas wouldn’t wash with the general public to satiate their thirst for reasons why the taps are dry.
But then Marie Antoinette Mc Alesse might say ” Let them drink beer with their cake ”
Full story on the Independant.ie
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Philip Hickey
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