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Monthly Archives: September 2012
The Great LEGO Ball Contraption: created in 600 hours (over two years) by Japanese LEGO nut akiyuki – a room sized, utterly pointless, completely awesome 17-module systems-engineering triumph installed at the creator’s home.
The humble phone box.
Is getting its hipster on TONIGHT.
Ciaran W writes:
I’m involved with ‘The Engage Art Project’. We have commissioned six young contemporary designers (above) and artists to trick out Dublin City Centre Phone Boxes – grand unveiling this evening as part of Culture Night and running until October 8.
Can it really be a year?
It comes around so fast.
‘Peace Conference’ (1919) from TCD digital archive via the Europeana collection.
Apple World
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The Amazing iOS6 Maps – a whole Tumblr dedicated to Apple Maps fails.
Above: Winninger Brücke in Germany; Salvador Dali’s Melting Petrona Towers (Kuala Lumpur) and the awesome new rock climbing walls of Oakland’s 980 Freeway.
While the official Hobbit trailer fills us (apart from Bodger) with glee, this trailer for a 90-minute fan version by Tower House schoolboys has us wishing we had that sort of get up and go as kids.
Mmmf.
[via Bleeding Cool]
Microsoft Ireland MD Paul Rellis.
And you thought they were here for the weather?
Using complex schemes to shift U.S. revenue overseas, Microsoft was able to avoid paying taxes on $21 billion in revenue between 2009 and 2011, amounting to about half its total U.S. sales, according to the subcommittee report. The company avoided paying $4.5 billion in taxes, or about $4 million per day, during that time, according to the report.
Using similar schemes, Apple avoided taxes on $34.5 billion between 2009 and 2011, and Google has dodged taxes on $24 billion.
Nice.
Tech Firms Find Havens From US Taxes (San Fransisco Chronicle)
US Senate panel slams Microsoft’s ‘tax gimmickry’ in Ireland, Singapore and Puerto Rico (FinFacts)
Another one for that file.
Phil Dimashq writes:
Saw these in Malacca, Malaysia, on Wednesday… sold out of Donegal and Mayo of course but still plenty of Kerry left if anyone’s interested.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd0WkW5tUog
What you may need to know:
1. That’s right, this is the trailer for Ah-huld’s forthcoming autobiography.
2. Forget the new Zadie Smith and all those other girly-books – this is THE publishing event of da year.
3. He will be sharing many amusing anecdotes, like the one about the time he had a child with his family’s maid – and forgot to tell his family.
4. We’re holding out for the audiobook.
5. Ah-huld wants to record a voicemail for you.
Release Date: October
Related: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Doomed Comeback (DailyBeast)