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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.
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For the cultured web-users among us, Amazon announced this week that it is partnering up with 150 galleries and art dealers to sell fine art through its new product Amazon Art, Gizmodo reports. The company will reportedly take between five and 20 per cent of all sales. Do you think we might be able to flog our finger paint masterpieces on there?
The daredevils in us want to give Send Me To Heaven (S.M.T.H) a go but the fear of screen scratches is just to much… This crazy app challenges you to throw your phone as high as you can and catch it. It measures the distance and places you on a leaderboard with other smartphone renegades, IGN reports. The app is available on Android only – obviously Apple are more concerned about potential damage to their precious iPhones. Also, it comes with this comforting disclaimer:
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We can’t get enough of all the Google Streetview tours that have been cropping up lately. This week they set us loose on a luxary Emirates airbus, Wired reports. If you’re still clinging to your childhood like us you’ll have fun moving really quickly up and down the aisles like you’re running through the plane.
So apparently, Bebo is growing up. Michael Birch, who set up the social networking site and sold it for a heap of cash in 2008, has bought it back and this week put out a genuinely funny promotional video. Reminiscing about the site’s infamous ‘Whiteboard’ feature he said: “Over the past seven years nearly one million of these pictures have been drawn across the site, making it arguably the single biggest repository of illustrated c**k and b***s ever recorded”. Watch the full video:
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Lets just hope idiots stop crashing their cars into it!!!
And bicycles , bikes , mopeds , addicts, drunk people , Dublin bus & people looking for specsavers
Wouldn’t worry to much about the junkies, they need to be culled anyway. Ever drive up Gardiner St? I’ve lost count of the amount of times I’ve had to jam on, one even pushed a pram out in front of me. There should be warning traffic signs saying junkies about, drive with care.
Does it cross your mind that heroin production has increased 90% since Afghanistan was invaded and make you say wtf
Food for thought
It’s mad was in Berlin recently, and the trams over there run in the centre of almost every road, zig zagging across intersections and public plaza’s…not once did they have to beep, or sound a warning bell like the Luas does, people just simply know better.
One thing about the Luas I guess, is that it’s a dark & light grey with small colourful accents, whereas the one’s in Berlin were bright yellow with black accents. The Luas blends in with it’s surroundings a little too well, still doesn’t mean that the people crashing aren’t idiots/in the wrong, just makes it harder to notice at the last second I reckon.
I have to laugh at the people red thumbing my comment bout 90% heroin production
It’s mainstream news that its the case guess the truth scares you
Then leave your comment on an article about heroine.
@ Colm
Heroine?!?!? What’s that ?
@Fagan … A female superhero like jessica Fletcher
Ahhhhh a heroine thanks for clearing that up
The two luas lines should have interchanged when they were built in the first place.
Glad this is finally getting done.
I love this country. But we are feckin’ useless at long term planning.
It’s always been the case. The Rotunda doesn’t cap the top of O’Connell St. City Hall isn’t square with the top of Parliament St. Trinity College cuts off half the city centre from proper north-south routes. This isn’t new.
For Dublin to act like a capital city like any other capital city in the world we need a rail link to the airport. Its simple basic common sense to link an airport to the city centre. We’re miles behind lads!
Collie….. I’m shocked. .a sensible suggestion. … you ll never get into the civil service or government
When completed this should be pretty damn good. Add to that the train link out to the airport. We’re starting to look like a capital city.
Dublin 15 could use more transport options mind you.
This will be extremely handy, just a pity it won’t be here til 2017!
Mary o rourke was the minister in charge of the two luas lines that didn’t meet, the engineers wanted them to meet but the civil servants didn’t. So it proves the point never never listen to civil servants on anything they will avoid hassle and extra work at all costs.
It was a political decision not one made or suggested by civil servants.
@Bill – it was actually a political decision. The business owners on Grafton Street didn’t want the Luas going down Grafton street and Mary O Rourke folded to their lobbying. It wasn’t the civil servants who are to blame.
Should of been done from the beginning, but better late than never!
Agree totally- nine years after the LUAS first arrived and they’re only linking them together now!
It’ll be great once it’s completed, though…
Best thing ever happened is Luas. I use the Red Line frequently travelling the first part of the journey by car. My only gripe is the somewhat intimidating behaviour of young and not so young people who regularly jump on for a few stops. Some of them are clearly under the influence of alcohol or some other drug. The security guys should be more visible at the stops away from the city centre.
I had a really good experience with a driver when a gentleman who was high grabbed me on the red line luas – more staff really does make a difference when your safety is questioned.
It’s a pity in this country that the construction process takes so long.
Is it just my phone or is the infographic really low-res?
Another station in Broombridge for teenagers to start bonfires at I suppose.
Is it that difficult to walk from St Stephens Green to Connolly Station? This money should’ve been spent on an airport rail link.
Or we could do both?
What about those that cant do the walk, elderly, luggage, shopping, etc.
I’m guessing the answer to that is the same as it is for every piece of government spending that people disagree with:
“Something something hospital beds”
Why they don’t put hospital beds on a Luas which goes all the way to Dublin Airport through the Port Tunnel is beyond me…
Whats the final bill going to be? To the nearest billion……
LUAS
LATE UNRELIABLE AND STUPID
11:30 on a Saturday and you are on here moaning as always. Sad life
What are you doing here then?
How are they unreliable?
And stupid? Get your act together you sad case.
Every day there is a crash, sade case ha look in mirror.
Paul, you have me in stitches. Wassup pal!!! xxx
A Luas is on a track. They can’t avoid dumbass motorists who don’t obey the rules of the road. How can a Luas avoid getting hit?
Point is they are in accidents quite often and the motorists is not always to blame.
I was here reading the article and then seen your silly comment complaining it seems that’s all you do on here just come to complain. If you don’t like Ireland so much please there are flights out everyday we could all do with a few less moans around here(Ireland).
Seems like your spying on Me, one word for people like you….
Sounds like somebody has had their car rammed by a Luas before!
You’re not called BadDrivingIreland for nothing!
A bit paranoid?
Fail I don’t even live in city.
Pity they dont advertise this properly, its not a link up as such. You will have to transfer trams either way. like needing two buses to get to where you need to go. Its not one continuous line link alot of people think.
I’m sure they can schedule it pretty efficiently so that the minute you get off one tram, the other one is there too and ready to depart.
It’s a shame they didn’t make the green and red line tracks the same size. That way, they could actually join them up, rather than just creating an interchange.
There both the same standard gauge I thought..
Yep, urban myth. Trams have even been switched between lines
Huh. Fair enough. So why don’t they have them join? I’d imagine that would be handy to have.
They are the same size, it’s the gap between 2 passing trams that’s different, not the width of the tracks -the green line can take wider metro trains or trams in the future if needed but the rail width is identical.
Ah, I see. That clears that up, so!
There is a social gauge change which makes the two lines incompatible.
The Luas uses the international standard track gauge of 1,435 mm whereas our trains in Ireland use a broad track gauge of 1,600 mm. As far I know the reason the different gauge was chosen for the Luas was that it would require less road space in the city and it would be cheaper to source rolling stock.
LUAS = overpriced bus lane.
It costs about the same as the bus and if you’re going like one stop ya can always risk it and not buy a ticket.
Not to the taxpayer it doesn’t.
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