[Community Article] This Day in Irish History December 8, 2013

Day 2,210, 16:45 • Published in Ireland Ireland • by Anthony Colby


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December 8, 2013


1831 - Death of James Hoban, the Kilkenny architect who designed the White House
1896 - Death of Isabella Maria Susan Tod, Irish women's rights activist
1922 - Liam Mellows, Rory O'Connor, Joseph McKelvey and Richard Barrett, Irish patriots - one from each of the four provinces - are executed by the Free State forces
1881 - Birth in Longford of Padraic Colum playwright, poet and novelist
1939 - Birth of Belfast flutist* Sir James Galway. *Sir James has publicly stated on several occasions that he plays the flute - not the flaut
1945 - John Banville, novelist, is born in Wexford
1980 - Haughey and Thatcher meet in Dublin and agree to consider 'the totality of relationships within these islands'
1999 - The Government implements a 32-year old law banning the sale of turkeys, ducks and geese at livestock marts
2002 - Gardaí recover €100,000 in coins stolen from the Pennies from Heaven charity
2002 - Hundreds of anti-war demonstrators march on Shannon airport in protest at the continued use of the airport by the US Air Force in preparation for possible war in the Gulf
In the liturgical calendar, today is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. If it falls on a week day, Roman Catholic schoolchildren get a holiday and in recent times, it has become the custom to go Christmas shopping in the city.


Zero-Gravity waffles are technically impossible since the ingredients cannot be weighed.

New evidence suggests that normal body temperature is 89.4 degrees and that mankind is running a temperature.

Clarke’s Law of Revolutionary Ideas:

Every revolutionary idea-in science, politics, art or whatever - evokes three stages of reaction in a hearer:

1. It is completely impossible-don’t waste my time.
2. It is possible, but not worth doing.
3. I said it was a good idea all along.

eIrish Bestiary


The Headless Chicken

A headless chicken is a creature which appears whenever an error is encountered in eRepublik, either due to you following an incorrect link, an error, or the server maintenance. The chicken is in reference to the English idiom "Like a chicken with its head cut off" which means running around in a frenzied manner, as chickens can apparently do after beheading. Mike the Headless Chicken is a documented case of this actually happening.
In eRepublik, citizens can assume that anytime a headless chicken appears, the game developers are running around like headless chickens.


Maintenance Chicken


Mike the Headless Chicken

The Troll

A troll (/ˈtroʊl/, /ˈtrɒl/) is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people, by posting inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a forum, chat room, or blog), either accidentally or with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.


The troll in his natural environment

Anatomy of a troll

The Bug

A software bug is an error, flaw, failure, or fault in a computer program or system that causes it to produce an incorrect or unexpected result, or to behave in unintended ways. Most bugs arise from mistakes and errors made by people in either a program's source code or its design, or in frameworks and operating systems used by such programs, and a few are caused by compilers producing incorrect code. A program that contains a large number of bugs, and/or bugs that seriously interfere with its functionality, is said to be buggy. Reports detailing bugs in a program are commonly known as bug reports, defect reports, fault reports, problem reports, trouble reports, change requests, and so forth.
Bugs trigger errors that can in turn have a wide variety of ripple effects, with varying levels of inconvenience to the user of the program. Some bugs have only a subtle effect on the program's functionality, and may thus lie undetected for a long time. More serious bugs may cause the program to crash or freeze. Others qualify as security bugs and might for example enable a malicious user to bypass access controls in order to obtain unauthorized privileges.

The bug is related to the headless chicken in that the appearance of the first usually leads to the appearance of the second.


Just one species of computer bugs[/img]


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Anthony Colby