It seems that you need a bike Licence in LA. Not for a motorbike but an actual peddle Bike. They cost $3.
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In the Irish Times today Owen Ross head of the department of humanities at the Athlone Institute of Technology suggests that Ireland should 
Giving tax credits to students who enrol in prioritised courses could help achieve the goal of building a knowledge economy,
Now the thinking of this is that students don’t take up these courses because [...]

I read the blog post by Ian Wright via the Excellent stephen kinsella blog. Basically what he did was to model a type of Monopoly board in Mathimatica. So I decided to see if I could do the same in Mathlab.  Basically the board consists of different squares of varying values. A player roles a dice and [...]

So with TV3 having scraped the bottom of the barrels of UK broadcasters output to fill up their Autumn schedule, they had some money left over to pump into the Irish version of ‘The Apprentice’. We got word in my office in Dublin last week that filming was going on in nearby O’Connell St and [...]

The new Bond theme. Best way to describe it - an absolute mess but it begins to appeal on repeated listens. Decide for yourselves.

Did anyone else know ‘The Script’ were Irish? Their polished look had me presuming they were American. Their Dublin accents put an end to that last night while being interviewed on the [...]

Some papers have been covering the story of the new exo planet being discovered. From NY Times. 
 
Astronomers from the University of Toronto have published a picture of what they say might be the first image of a planet orbiting another Sunlike star.
The planet, according to their observations, is 7 to 12 times as massive as Jupiter and [...]

So, it coincidentally turns out to have been the birthday of this figure of Irish political history in the last fortnight (September 11, 1902). The reason I have chosen to offer a history lesson this week as part of Top 6, is that Frank Ryan was the subject of the first ever ‘project’ I undertook [...]

What has gone wrong with the world economy is something everyone is asking and people far more intune with the world can’t answer. Anyway the recent crisis was summed up recently like so. (hat tip Turbelence Ahead)
To understand the underlying reason why the enormous deleveraging triggered by the still-expanding financial crisis is doing much less [...]

Angelina Jolie, Best Actress in a Leading Role, ‘The Changeling’
Clint Eastwood, Best Director, ‘The Changeling’
Could Brad and Angelina do the double next year and take home acting awards at the end of the night to the poor soul left babysitting their 6 kids? Could the atmosphere around LA cope with the haze of smug that [...]

On Thursday last, having indulged in some fine Italian cuisine in Talbot St’s Italian Connection, my friends and I arrived at the evening’s crossroads. The plan had been to meet and eat before heading to the Gate Theatre for its production of Harold Pinters No Man’s Land, however, a hat trick of white wine coupled [...]