Levels Of Tetris by talented New York pianist Scott Bradlee. Sez he:
I’ve always believed that modern electronic dance music was heavily influenced by old school NES games. Since stride piano is kind of the piano equivalent of electronic dance music, I decided to create this ragtime mashup of Korobeiniki (the Russian folk song that is also the ‘Tetris’ theme song) and Levels by Avicii.
Mosaïcultures Internationales de Montréal is the annual celebration of ‘a refined horticultural art that involves creating and mounting living artworks made primarily from plants with colourful foliage (generally annuals, and occasionally perennials).’
On view at the Montréal Botanical Garden until late September, the exhibition features 22,000 plant species in ten greenhouses and thirty themed gardens
Huge photoset here.
(Pix: Guy Boily)
Evolutionary psychologist Nicholas Humphreys asks why – if we can effectively cure ourselves by taking placebo medicine – do we not just heal ourselves straight away?
How d’ye like them sugar pills?
(Students Darren Martyn (top) and Donncha O Cearrbhail,above left).
Justice Ryan adjourned the case until October to let them each bring €5,000 to court to pay for the damage to the Fine Gael site. She also asked the Probation Service to prepare a restorative justice report on the hackers.
This can involve a meeting between the offender and the victim to discuss the impact of the crime as well as a letter of apology and an action plan of activities.
The judge indicated that if the money is paid and the report is positive, the Probation Act would be applied which would see the students spared custodial sentences and criminal records.
Seriously Sam writes:
Am I the only one who is disgusted at Fine Gael pushing this one through the courts where they claim it cost 10k to put back up their crappy site and are making these kids pay 5k each, and go through humiliating apology letters crapola?
Hacking = bad. Agreed.
But small stunt and overreacting establishment using the FBI (FFS!) to track down some young folks for embarrassing the establishment….
More to follow
Thanks Mike Hogan 4FM, Simon Webb and Joe Donnelly.
Three months on
Less crumbs.
A HB Brunch this evening.
David Ward writes:
I know times are hard but come on now….
Dame Street, Dublin.
Frank O’Dea performing his installation piece Confessions of a Banker outside the Central Bank.
(BBC)
Nom.
Gráinne in London, writes:
A colleague misheard a conversation we had in the office just now about a t-shirt someone had seen with the words “F*ck Taylor Swift” on it. Prompted me to make this. Thought you might like it.
