A Londonderry man has claimed that republican vigilantes told him to go to anger management classes or get shot. The Republican Actions Against Drugs (RAAD) has been behind paramilitary-style shootings against those guilty of so-called “anti-social behaviour”. But Hugh Brady, a community volunteer, said he was surprised by the claim. He had never heard about [...]
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Tagged anger management, bogside, free derry, hugh brady, kneecapping, londonderry, murals, punishment shooting, RAAD, republican action against drugs, republican dissidents, republican paramilitary groups, rosemount resource centre, sectarianism, vigilante, vigilante justice, you are now entering free derry
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Today, went to St John’s co-cathedral in Valletta. Downloading and then uploading images from my iPad defeats me. But images are available here. It is an unrestrained example of a Baroque Catholic cathedral. When I say “unrestrained”, I mean they did not know when to stop. I would say it was positively Hindu or Chinese [...]
I’m blogging about Easter again, sorry. This time spurred by an online conversation between friends about the appropriateness or not of being wished “Happy Easter” on Good Friday. Classicists of the world, wrack off – yes I DO know the entire event was probably lifted from pre-existing pagan rites of spring, but for the purposes [...]
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Tagged 9/11, christianity, Easter, ground zero, islam, Jesus, Jonathan Jones, Judaism, magnum, New York, photography, september 11th, the guardian, the meaning of 9/11's most controversial photo, The Passion, Thomas Hoepker, twin towers
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Scientists have produced a colossal picture of our Milky Way Galaxy, to reveal the detail of a billion stars. It is built from thousands of individual images acquired by two UK-developed telescopes operating in Hawaii and in Chile. Archived data from the project, known as the Vista Data Flow System, will be mined [...]
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Tagged a billion stars, astronomy, dr nick cross, eye candy du jour, mike read, milky way, photography, UK national astronomy meeting, UKIDSS/GPS sky survey, university of cambridge, university of edinburgh, vista data flow system
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February 23, 2012 – 11:39 pm
Photographer Mark Tipple uses an underwater camera to capture the “battle” between man and the power of ocean waves in Australia. His book, called the Underwater Project, shows surfers, bodyboarders and swimmers diving below the surf to avoid being pounded. The Telegraph has two galleries of Mark Tipple’s work, or you can go to THE [...]
February 22, 2012 – 5:52 am
… Before using their cheat sheet [now stolen by Google Plus, sorry]. There’s a parable about the stupidity of intellectual property laws in here, too. UPDATE 29/2/12: Especially given the fact that we’ve now had to re-source the video over eight times due to pursuit by copyright claims. Current copy is here but is subject to [...]
January 29, 2012 – 7:36 am
I promise that this will be our last shoe post. Yes, really! DeusExMacintosh came up with the idea, which I then executed. She was unable to find suitable pictures on which to exercise her black belt in photoshop, you see, so I stepped in. Why, you may wonder, do I not do this sort of [...]
December 9, 2011 – 1:12 am
…like, up to 250km per hour in places. Yes, it’s killing wind turbines. A £2 million, 100 metre tall wind turbine catches fire in hurricane-force winds at Ardrossan, North Ayrshire, Scotland. The wind turbine was spinning so fast it caught fire. The engine of the giant turbine went up in flames and its blades were [...]
September 27, 2011 – 6:10 am
Animal Portraits winner: Mystical Deer by Mark Smith. Fallow deer (Dama dama) in Richmond, Surrey, England. Gallery to view at The Telegraph.
September 1, 2011 – 8:21 pm
In case you wondered how the French could afford to keep it lit up all the time, now you know… A lightning bolt appears to strike the iconic Eiffel Tower while the Paris landmark is seen illuminated in vibrant blue lights. Amateur photographer Bertrand Kulik captured the shot which will appear in an exhibition titled [...]
