Monthly Archives: June 2011

Animation: Chute

Niall Murphy at 10:22 am June 30, 2011

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Promising young animator Mathias Lachal’s graduation film from Emile Cohl school in Lyon: ‘a skydive moment’.

HD, fullscreen, sound up. This is good.

Org Charts Of The Biggest Tech Companies

Niall Murphy at 9:38 am June 30, 2011

By designer Manu Cornet.

Here’s one for Broadsheet’s IT department.

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You Know That Woman Climbing The Wall Outside NAMA?

Admin at 9:05 am June 30, 2011

You do know she’s called ‘Aspiration’.

HUNDREDS of staff working in NAMA and the agency overseeing it shared a bonus pot worth €2m last year.

New figures showed the majority of staff in NAMA and the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) got bonuses averaging around €7,000 each.

And around 14 people in the agencies are being paid salaries of more than €250,000 each, it emerged last night.

NAMA Staff Share In €2m Bonus (Paul Melia, Michael Brennan and Barry Duggan, Irish Independent)

Lenny Kravitz: Trainee Hipster

Admin at 8:26 am June 30, 2011

Earlier this week in SoHo, NY.

Oh Lenny, it only works if you hide the iPhone.

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Not Facebook

Niall Murphy at 8:25 am June 30, 2011

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In case you hadn’t noticed, Google upgraded and minimalised its already minimal homepage this week. And that’s not all.

Google+ is the company’s most ambitious effort yet to keep Web users and advertising dollars from straying to social networking sites.

The Internet search giant, whose goal is to organize information, will try to organize people with a social networking service designed to rival the growing influence of Facebook Inc. The project, which Google has been quietly working on for months, has been championed by Google co-founder Larry Page, who, even before taking over as chief executive in April, made social networking a priority.

Google Making Another Attempt At Social Networking (LA Times)

Halal Is Other People

Admin at 12:56 am June 30, 2011

Tonight’s Vincent Browne show.

It’s already spawned a nationwide manhunt.

And let’s not even start on this guy.

Transcript later this morning.

Tonight With Vincent Browne (episode not up yet)

Ever Get The Feeling A Naked David Kelly Is Going To Whizz By On A Motorbike At Any Moment?

Admin at 9:07 pm June 29, 2011

Get thee to Politics.ie for more EXCLUSIVE shamroguery from the Healy-Rae clan.

They’ve only got a hold of the highly-specific, civil service (via Cruiskeen Lawn) letter sent to the da’ Jackie about the bill he ran up voting for the young fella.

It helps to imagine Jackie reading it.