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Image: One astronaut to another, as they look at a monolith on a bleak lunar landscape.
Caption: Well, I’ll be darned, it does have the Apple logo on it!
Bonus link: Oxford Dictionary’s; Waitor required, fluent in English; and Ladie’s powder room; blooper photos via Turner Ink.
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Last week, Peter Sutherland gave a speech about the Irish university sector. It generated quite a lot of controversy at the time, and an edited version appears in yesterday’s Sunday Times. Unfortunately, the speech has rather overshadowed the occasion; this is a pity, since it was the launch of the Undergraduate Awards of Ireland and Northern Ireland 2010. This is the second year of the initiative; the IUA website has information about the last year’s winners as well as about this year’s competition. Submissions from undergraduates in the form of essays or projects can be entered into one of 26 categories. The first round is especially for final and penultimate year students together with part-time students who have secured at least 1/3 of credits necessary to graduate, and their deadline is 12 March 2010, so it’s approaching rather quickly. According to the criteria on the website, “your submission should represent the highest standard of intellectual and scholarly achievement in your chosen field … [and it] should embody a piece of independent and original work together with a clear identification of its aims and objectives”. So, no pressure then.
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The above image is the front page of the first ever Times newspaper, first published as the Universal Daily Register on 1 January 1785. From today’s Times Online:
How a former bankrupt with a big idea started a feeble rumbling that became The Thunderer
On this day 225 years ago the very first issue of a newspaper that would soon be renamed The Times appeared on the streets of London. … its beginnings were, to put it mildly, inauspicious … Yet the paper did survive, and prosper, thanks in part to the energy and vision of its creator, John Walter, a former coal merchant, entrepreneur and Lloyd’s underwriter who had declared himself bankrupt after he was ruined by a combination of the American War of Independence and a Jamaican hurricane. …
In 1789 he was put on trial for libelling the Duke of Clarence and the Duke of Cumberland. He refused to reveal his sources, and was sentenced to a year in Newgate Prison, fined £50 and ordered to stand in the pillory at Charing Cross for an hour. This last part of the sentence was lifted, although editors of The Times have occasionally been pilloried since. Once his sentence was completed, he started another, following a successful libel action by the Prince of Wales.
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Image: Two clinking glasses of champagne.
Caption: A new year’s resolution … is something that goes in one year and out the other.
Happy new year!
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Via Stu’s Views holiday cartoons:
Image: Husband opening Christmas cards.
Caption: Honey, our lawyer wishes us, but in no way guarantees, a merry Christmas.
Bonus link: a longer version of the same wish.
PS. The blog title is Irish for “Merry Christmas”.
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From the cover of Kathryn Dalziel’s Privacy in Schools: A guide to the Privacy Act for principals, teachers and boards of trustees (Privacy Commissioner of New Zealand, 2009), a cartoon by Chris Slane:
Image: teacher and schoolboys in a classroom surveyed by several cctv cameras.
Caption: schoolboy to teacher: “Please sir, can I have some more privacy?”
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Via Shannon Burns:
Image: Defendant standing in front of a judge.
Caption: The internet made me do it.
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