News Tuesday, January 19, 2010 D Todays menu Keep public transport clean and tidy by taking your Metro with you when you leave the bus or train Contact usGuilty Pleasures P6 Mail P8 MetroLife, inc TV P12-16 60 Second Interview P15 Puzzles P16 Business P17 Sport P21-24 Lotto Monday Draw: 8, 17, 23, 25, 34, 38 Bonus: 9 Saturday Draw: 04, 13, 16, 19, 30, 45 Bonus: 35 Euro Millions: 11, 26, 29, 49, 50 Lucky stars: 04, 07 Recycle for DUBLIN E-mail: news@metroherald.ie Visit: www.e-metro.ie Newsdesk: 01 637 5975 Advertising: 01 637 5972 Distribution: 01 637 5901 Classified: 01 637 5979 The Ridiculant Something we found down the back of the internet Fact of the day Julia Grant, wife of US General Ulysses S. Grant, awoke on April 14, 1865, with a feeling she and her husband should get out of Washington. Gen Grant had been due to attend the theatre with President Lincoln, but his wife insisted he pulled out. Leaving the city, the Grants passed John Wilkes Booth on his way to assassinate Mr Lincoln at the theatre. Gen Grant was also on Booths hitlist. Nervous: A bunny awaits his fate... Its a universal truth that small fluffy animals with big, innocent eyes and adorable ickle paws are pretty popular. Likewise, many people love to see things being blown up in an entirely gratuitous manner, as the baffling popularity of filmmaker Michael Bay demonstrates. However, most attempts to combine the two have met with little success until now, that is. the Cute things Exploding Youtube channel takes some of the cutest videos the internet has to offer and through the power of crude special effects video editing software turns the little animals into little lovable fireballs of fluff. this is almost certainly exactly what sir tim Berners-Lee was envisaging when he first thought to himself hey, wouldnt it be nifty if we had some kind of web that was, like, world- wide? thankfully, lest any emotionally disturbed teenagers get any bad ideas, they do caution at the end of every video that blowing up cute animals for real is dangerous, illegal, messy and mean. Wise words that we whole-heartedly endorse... Belfast Dublin 2day Max: 9c Sunrise: 8.29am Max: 8c 2dayaroundEurope Athens Barcelona Berlin Brussels London Geneva Madrid Paris Rome 12c 13c 3c 6c 7c 3c 14c 6c 12c Min: 2c 8c8c 8c 6c 8c 7c Sunset: 16.43pm 2night Limerick Cork Galway Cavan Derry Tipperary WaterfordKerry Kilarney Donegal 9c 8c 6c 8c 7c 6c Today will be a cold, windy and mostly cloudy day. Ulster and north Leinster will stay largely dry until dusk, with a few bright spells. But rain will become widespread over Connacht, Munster and Leinster. Top temperatures will reach 6 to 9C. Rain will continue in east Ulster for a time. Bright or sunny spells over the rest of the country, but scattered showers also, these mainly along Atlantic coasts. Cool, with southwesterly or variable winds. Tonight, rain will continue in Ulster and in many parts of Leinster. Clearer weather, with just a few scattered showers, will develop in Munster, Connacht and in south Leinster, but it will turn cold under clearing skies, with a touch of frost. index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html24.html25.html26.html27.html