The Kitsune Noir blog have a really excellent series where they post up new wallpaper for your computer screen regularly. The latest is lovely. They have it in sizes for all you computer needs, from PSP and iPhones up to full HD screens. Go check out the Desktop Wallpaper Project!
Well that was what appeared on RTE this week during the coverage of Irish league soccer. The third time they gave us the guests names they couldn’t come up with a factoid for Colm Foley beyond his fascination with space travel? Lordy…
Where’s the logic in trying to re-capitalise AIB to the tune of €1 Billion when it currently has a market capitalisation of less that €500 million? The €1billion in private funds is simply not going to happen, no way. So the Irish government is going to end up owning a majority stake in AIB (€1b vers >€500m of stock) or let it go to the wall.
Stop beating around the bush, just nationalise it. That way you don’t have to pump in the potential black hole in cash, you can just assume ultimate responsibility for the debts and allow the bank to operate as if it never had toxic assets, that is, making loans to those who are worthwhile. Then you can allow those debts that are assumed to be toxic to either unwind themselves over time without the bank going to the wall or you can shift them into a holding bank/ company.
Nationalising removes the legal obligation of the bank to the shareholders that would remain if the government attempted to “insure” the bad debts (as though the government can afford to do that at the moment). €340 million? Just buy the damn thing Lenihan, it would be in the best interests of bank customers and the taxpayers. This goes for BoI too.
Or that’s how I see it.
are streetlights in other countries different?
That building is Villa Nurbs. Cool as it is it’s the green streetlights that interest me. Hmm
I find the following piece of financial news weirdly funny:
NEW YORK (Sept. 15, 2008) ― Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, today announced component changes in the Dow Jones Financial Services Titans 30 Index.
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (United States, Financial Services, LEH) will be removed from the Dow Jones Financial Services Titans 30 Index and replaced by Mega Financial Holding Co. Ltd. (Taiwan, Financial Services, 2886.TW). Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. is being removed because it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
The Titans Index? The Mega Financial Holding Co. Ltd? These corporate types are such a bunch of weirdos.
Vice President of East Coast Television and Microwave Oven Programming Jack Donaghy wouldn’t be out of place in this news item.
Each one of us was harmed by being brought into existence. That harm is not negligible, because the quality of even the best lives is very bad-and considerably worse than most people recognise it to be. Although it is obviously too late to prevent our own existence, it is not too late to prevent the existence of future possible people. Creating new people is thus morally problematic.
From David Benatar’s book Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence. Noted at Crooked Timber. Interesting!
Visual noise is made with the help of Photoshop, thank you internet Pirates, I owe you.
10,708 atheletes competed at the Beijing Olympics. 10 were openly gay. Only one man was openly gay.
Curious.
Via outsports.com
… and David O’Doherty! That is winners of the if .comedy (formerly Perrier) awards at Edinburgh. Nice one! I’ve absolutely no excuse not catch him live now.
The Guardian reports too.
The new Eircom building has some pretty incredible lighting, though I wasn’t aware of just how much it changes and varies its transitions. The building is part of the development south of Heuston Station. There’s also a pretty voluminous building going up near the entrance to the Phoenix Park for the Courts Service which I’ll be interested to see completed.
From Eircom’s youtube channel via Mulley’s fluffy links,
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