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WELCOME TO THE Weird Wide Web – where we take a look at the week’s best offerings in tech and social media news.
Some day we’ll have a fully-integrated transport system in Ireland… but until then we can only marvel at the beauty and efficiency of transportation in other countries. Back in June, London’s transit corporation released all information on bus and train departures to the wider public and developer Bruno Imbrizi put together an impressive visualisation of the Tube system. Go on and have a look at it. [via Gizmodo]
Do you want to know how to brew your own beer, bake up some tasty French madeleines at the blink of a hat, learn how to build a computer or master some slick moves on a snowboard? Well Curious.com has launched an app this week featuring videos on how to do all of these things (not at the same time). It’s only currently available for the iPad but they also have a website that the rest of you can use if you’re so inclined.
It’s going to happen. The world’s first natural talking teddy bear got the go ahead from the Kickstarter community this week with over £68,000 in funding. The creators hope to be shipping the first of these cuddly gadgets by December so if you’re really good, Santy might bring you one…
(Video: Technolog TV/YouTube)
To mark the 68th anniversaries of the the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Google launched a number of online exhibits which include photos, artifacts and diaries telling the story of the two tragedies. They’re haunting but definitely worth a look.
(Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum/Google Cultural Institute)
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good to see this crap taken off the streets. Tha gardai that do this type of work are the toughest bravest citizens in the state & no money could pay them to do it. They dont get enough of support.
They do a good job and get payed well for it.
Really? I suggest you go into the courts & see who they have to deal with before you consider their pay grade. I wouldnt or couldnt do their job.
Is your avator meant to be ironic
I don’t know enough to comment on how good or bad they are at their job. Fair play to them but nobody is forcing them to do it. It’s your opinion.
Great work get this dirty drug out of Ireland
Well done to the Gardai, they are doing a good job despite all the obstacles put in their way
Great find, that disgusting drug killed my sister, great to see such a big find and hopefully all involved wont see freedom for manys a year now.
Nidge won’t be happy!
Can I hit the red thumb twice for the love hate jokes? .. Please Journal
Hahahaha
@baz – ‘joke’ implies it was funny, it wasn’t
Nidge doesn’t joke!
Great capture, heroin is a scourge across all societies. Hopefully there won’t be any punishment attacks as a result of this seizure.
At least it’s more productive that all the recent cannabis seizures!
Do a lot of the seizures seem to be in the Kildare area?
Or am I just misremembering?
Celbridge is the Baltimore of Leinster.
Would you like some cake fathers, theres cocaine in it! Oh sorry its those what do you call its…RAISINS!
Careful, the joke police are patrolling…
Hate that, somebody’s gonna be pi$$ed !
About time they found something other than cannabis. There is a lot more of the sh*t on the street to Gardai, Win for you now but a lot more work to do!
I just can’t get that in such a small country there are quantities bigger than this latest find stashed all over the place and its hard to find? Surely its being managed by a small number of people, all of whom will be known to the gards and customs.
Gardai did well here but it is what they are paid to do…..
Not very well I’m afraid. The pay doesn’t reflect the dangers there exposed to. After all the cut over the last few yrs it’s worse than ever before. Gardai don’t get enough credit.
Does anyone know how much of the 35kg was heroin and how much was cocaine? I’m trying to figure out what the official Garda value of a gram of either of these drugs is.
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