May
06
2004
Tom Sweeney has been on hunger strike out side the Dáil for over 20 days now. He was abused in one of Ireland’s state run industrial schools, and was offered €113,000, but after telling his story this was reduced to €70,000. Since then he has been on hunger strike outside the Dáil.
When Green Party TD Paul Gogarty attempted to raise the issue today, as the Dáil will not sit until Tues (I think), he was ordered out of the building.
“Over a week ago an ambulance was called and doctors told him that within five days his [Mr. Sweeney's] organs would begin seizing up. He knows his days are numbered”
“Mr Gogarty had attempted to raise the plight of hunger striker Tom Sweeney, but Mr O’Hanlon [the Ceann Comhairle] said the question was not in line with Dáil business.”
Sources include: Ireland Online, the Scotsman, the Examiner and RTÉ news
Current track: Cannonall by Damien Rice
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May
06
2004
The Guardian put google up against the phone and the library to try and figure out which is the fastest, and best way to get results.
-from Neil Gaiman’s journal, which also provides a link to this cool and creepy screensaver for Wolves in the Walls
Current track: Volcano by Damien Rice
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May
06
2004
Interesting article in the telegraph bout how we can look but not see. I suppose it is similar to the way we can listen but not hear?
“Working with Christopher Chabris at Harvard University, Simons came up with another demonstration that has now become a classic, based on a videotape of a handful of people playing basketball. They played the tape to subjects and asked them to count the passes made by one of the teams.
Around half failed to spot a woman dressed in a gorilla suit who walked slowly across the scene for nine seconds, even though this hairy interloper had passed between the players and stopped to face the camera and thump her chest
Current track: Don’t forget me by Red Hot Chilli Peppers
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Harvard University,
observation,
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