Here’s a brilliant use of electronics in various guises to make environmental awareness and health awareness fun, thereby encouraging change rather than the usual finger-wagging, po-faced, matronly, political correctness.
By creating a Piano keyboard out of a stairway alongside an escalator they increased use of the stairs by 66%.
By simulating the world’s deepest bin with sound effects they massively increased the use of a public litter bin.
By turning a bottle bank into an arcade game they increased its use exponentially.
Admittedly, these have an initial wow factor and probably will get up people’s noses after a while, but as a form of advertising environmental awareness in a fun way rather than ramming it down people’s throats it definitely gets my vote.
Take a trip over to their website and make sure to have a look at the entries pages as well, there is some good stuff there. Maybe you can come up with something yourself and win a prize. www.thefuntheory.com
Eamon Lillis was today sentenced to 6 years and 11 months for the manslaughter of his wife Celine Cawley.
The likelihood is that he will only serve between 3 and 5 years if he behalves himself.
summing up Judge Barry White said that Lillis’s only saving grace was that he had called the emergency services.
It seems to me that the law favours the perpetrator rather than the victim. Wayne o’Donoghue had a similar ludicrous sentence when he was found guilty of the manslaughter of 11 year old Robert Holohan in 2006. O’Donoughue ended up serving only 2 years and is now in England living his new life. The Holohans have to live each day without their beautiful son.
I don’t think however anyone will be laughing in either family (Lillis, Cawley) It was a tragic situation. They say crimes of passion like this carry their own life sentence, but do they?
I keep asking myself was it a tragic accident had he no intent to kill her? Maybe we didn’t get the whole story as the trial unfolded. Maybe the jury know more than we do.
Weather he did intend to kill Celine or not I still feel he’s got off very lightly.
3 years I reckon he’ll be out on good behaviour because of course he’s going to be a model prisoner.
We the tax payer will be providing him his bed and breakfast while he can do a course go to the gym and work out and have pretty much an easy time.
Bring back chain gangs. Have them fixing the roads, building motorways and cleaning up the country, at least that way we won’t have to pay for toll roads.
Personally if you kill someone unless it’s in self defence (you’re in mortal danger of being killed yourself) than you should get 10 - 15 years without parole.
More and more I’m of the opinion that if you go to court you are not guaranteed Justice but you are guaranteed the Law.
I’m not the first person to point out that getting a potential Super Bowl commercial turned down by the broadcasting network has become something of a badge of honor for some companies (I’m looking at you, GoDaddy). And so in that vein, here’s ‘Clothing Drive,’ an ad with obvious black-bar-styled nudity (SFW) that never had a prayer against the CBS censors.
My favorite part about it is the office prude character, who obviously wants no part of this. Well done, formerly Americanbeer that’s not Miller High Life. Well done,
One of the first videos of this mornings meteoroid that hit Ireland. The last one that hit in 1999 went for $500 an ounce at auction. Latest reports say this meteoroid hit in the north of the country.
Meteor showers are caused by tiny pieces of dust floating around in space. This dust is left over material from comets and from the creation of the Solar System. When the Earth passes through a region containing large amounts of this debris, Earth’s gravity pulls in the fragments. When these meteoroids hit the atmosphere,they begin to glow very brightly as they burn up, appearing as streaks known as meteors.