are streetlights in other countries different?
That building is Villa Nurbs. Cool as it is it’s the green streetlights that interest me. Hmm
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Welcome to the Titans league, Mega Financial Holding Co. Ltd
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.
Procreation is the original sin //or// Abortion is morally necessary
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!
Where is the prize?
Visual noise is made with the help of Photoshop, thank you internet Pirates, I owe you.
A Queer Statistic
10,708 atheletes competed at the Beijing Olympics. 10 were openly gay. Only one man was openly gay.
Curious.
Via outsports.com
Sean Hughes, Dylan Moran, Tommy Tiernan…
… 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 by night
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,
