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)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLxJOo3Ag04
Meet Derek, Aoife and Steve. Eddie,
Peter Sweeney writes:
I hope you have seen our latest 20 second ads currently running on T.V. for Dublin Bus. I work for an advertising company that is trying to change perception of public transportation in Dublin city and was wondering if you have any interest in posting our latest mockumentary style video? Its an amalgamation of our 20 second ads with some extra footage. People genuinely seem to like it and the guy who plays Derek (above) is an absolute genius.
Samuel Mullet (!) guilty of ‘haircut attacks’ on fellow Amish men and women.
Some fanatics from Ohio,
Lashed out at their old-fashioned foe.
It strikes me as weird,
To cut off a chap’s beard,
But then again what would I know?
John Moynes
“He has not fulfilled Fine Gael’s pre-election promise!”
Join the queue.
Thanks Wayne F