It means "the summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the climber of mountains, the land-swallower who traveled about, played his flute to his loved one."

Wikipedia | Google Map 

Loads more.

‘No need to encrypt it lads, we’re sending it in the post. Safe as houses’. I’m lost for words on this one.

The missing information contains details of all child benefit recipients: records for 25 million individuals and 7.25 million families. These records include the recipient and their children’s names, addresses and dates of birth, it includes Child Benefit numbers, National Insurance Numbers, and, where relevant, bank or building society account details.

Please please please make it some strain of super-irony I haven’t come across yet. Meta-irony even.

Behold Inga. I hear she’s from Sweden.

It seems to be real, whatever that means in this case, and it adheres to the instructions in ‘The Manual’. Therefore I’m just getting old …

Changing the format of this slightly to accommodate the embedded stuff …

Yo La Tengo - ‘Don’t cry no tears’ (live) | Black Kids - ‘I’m not gonna teach your boyfriend how to dance with you’ | The Go! Team - ‘The wrath of Marcie’ | Mogwai - ‘Gouge away’ | Joy Zipper - ‘Wave of mutilation’ | Rebekah Higgs - ‘Parables’ | The Mountain Goats - ‘Dirty old town‘ | Run Run Run - ‘Fade into you’ (Z-Trip remix) | Outlines - ‘Now that I’m free’ | Holy Ghost - ‘Hold On’ | Chromatics - ‘I’m on fire’ | Power of Dreams - ‘Never told you’ | Longpigs - ‘On and on’

SNL spoof iPhone advert

Educational video treats: charge an iPod using Gatorade and an onion …

… learn to dance like a Pipette …

… and pick up some great arm-wrestling moves from Ted Leo

The former head of An Taisce last night expressed concern that approval was given to U2’s controversial revamp of the Clarence Hotel out of "deference".

Dublin City Council officials granted the superstar rock group planning permission to go ahead with their €150m planned revamp amid criticism last week. A condition is that the developers contribute almost €1m to council initiatives, such as the cost of the Metro North rail line.

The Sunday Independent knows.

THE latest theory doing the rounds in some property and banking circles is that London hedge fund boys are having an old fashioned crack at the Mick.

According to the theory, the City boys, sick of Paddy buying up key London landmarks, have seen an opportunity to put the boot in and short Irish bank shares.

Presumably someone, somewhere actually believes this. I’d love to meet them, since they could perhaps give me a comprehensive list of London landmarks that Paddy has bought up.

Whilst I’m on the subject, here’s a gem of a press release article from the Irish Times in January of this year. 

The body that represents the property professions has predicted that residential capital values will increase by a "modest" 4-5 per cent this year after a marked slowdown in the second half of 2006.

Oops. 

Here are some more predictions by ‘experts’ with an interest in keeping the property party going.

HugeUrl. Sorry, I mean

… and my hair is full of radios?