Daft Punk have signed on to write the score to Joseph Kosinski’s new Tron movie. Excellent.
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…if you account for the relative worth of medals won and the Gross National Income (purchasing power parity adjusted) of the countries. Puts Australian’s being “beaten” by Britain in context.
Unsurprisingly Jamaica does best of all. Here’s the table as cooked up by the number crunchers at Crooked Timber:
Here’s the Crooked Timber post.
The New York Times have for some time had some pretty good blogs and quite a selection, such as Errol Morris’s (which seemed like a series of really good essays rather than rattled off blog postings), and Freakonomics.
They are now straight linking to other people’s content at the Ideas blog. Basically like an old style blog they’re pointing you to the good stuff. The link economy is bedding in at the Grey Lady.
I’d love to see the Irish Times editors do something similar. What does Madam’s eyes scan as she sips her tea and stops thinking of new ways to fill August’s silly season pages I wonder. Do you think she reads xkcd?
I suppose it’s not that surprising, but Wallace and Gromit are modelling on behalf od Harvey Nics. Nice idea, pity I can’t afford an Alexander McQueen suit. I wonder who Topshop could get to model, Fireman Sam?
Via the creative review blog.
Nice Alexander McQueen suit there Wallace
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,
