I highly recommend reading the background to this.
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200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 minutes
via Brainpickings.
Music Video Of The Year
No debate about this, totally superb. Fullscreen is mandatory.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Take it easy with the frozen turkeys.
Available Until December 13th
In the midst of the farce that was Ireland’s “is it a bailout, isn’t it a bailout, is it a contingency fund”, RTE got a few things wrong.
But they did broadcast this episode of Scannal last night, about Allied Irish Bank’s insurance subsidiary Insurance Corporation of Ireland which collapsed in 1985. The taxpayer paid to bail out Allied Irish Bank. As far as I can tell, the bailout payments that were levied finished in 2009.
The full version of the program is available here until December 13th. Highly recommended viewing.
Don Norman Interview
If you have just over two hours to spare, I highly recommend watching all of this playlist on the history of Human-Computer Interfaces.
In A Barbie World
Greatest Sports Segment Ever?
It’s certainly a contender.
The Wall Street Journal Is Watching, Biffo
My favourite part is the communications director from the Construction Industry Federation saying with a straight face that a shortage of housing in Ireland is imminent. These people are nothing if not determined in their spin.
The Search For The Next Ridley Scott Continues
35 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. Are we approaching some kind of video-spawned singularity?