A glance at the week that was
ENTRY LEVEL
Google continued its attempt to gain global dominance this week, when announcing a phone that it hopes will challenge Apple's much-loved iPhone. The G1 phone is not quite as sleek as the iPhone, but it does flip open to reveal a keyboard. It's seen as part of a long-term strategy aimed at getting into the market rather than expecting immediate success. US customers will get their chance to judge for themselves from mid-October. The Irish will just have to wait until sometime next year.
BIG FUEL BILL
If we're ever going to solve the mysteries of the universe/destroy the galaxy, then we'll have to wait until next year to do it because of delays with the Large Hadron Collider.
In order to check out a problem, the exceptionally cold interior needs to be warmed up, and will take a few weeks to do so.
It would have been due for winter maintanance anyway, so it looks like it'll be spring of 2009 before it gets revved up again - hopefully the massive heating bills won't bankrupt it first.
WE NOW KNOW
Paul McCartneyplayed Tel Aviv, over 40 years after the Beatles were banned from Israel in fear that they would corrupt young people.
The Life of Brianwill finally get a showing in English town Torbay, almost 30 years after its council banned the film
Texting while driving is more dangerous than drinking, according to a study by Britain's Transport Research Laboratory
THE NUMBERS
14 The number of Kilkenny players on the Vodafone Hurling All-Stars nominations list
11 The minutes David Letterman spent on his show assailing John McCain for cancelling at the last minute
60 The number of hours David Blaine claimed he would hang upside down in Central Park this week, but took regular breaks on his feet to drink liquids, urinate and undergo medical checks.
"It's a joke, it's tokenism, meaningless"
A judgement on Monday's Car-Free Dayfrom the Chairman of the Dublin Cycling Campaign Dr Mike McKillen