A beautifully executed short by Omer Ben David – his graduation film from the Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem.

An atmospheric and vague, painterly animated short that envisions a view upon an old house cat who bids farewell to his home in his final moments.

Mmf.

shortoftheweek

Stop laughing.

it’s for charidee.

From GiveandBuy.ie

Giveandbuy.ie, Ireland’s online non-profit marketplace that invites users to sell their unwanted household and workplace items launched today their appeal to the Irish public to clear out their attics and garages, dust off the cobwebs and donate their unwanted items and gifts. At the launch, Lord Mayor, Andrew Montague [above right with Aidan Corless, Chairman of Give and Buy] donated a new computer which will raise funds for the GiveandBuy.ie’s associated charities including Barnardos, Our Ladys Hospice, Concern, Outreach Muldovia, Irish Cancer Society, and Blackrock College Kenyan School appeal.

 

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Anon writes:

Darren Martyn aka “Pwnsauce” and Donncha O’Cearbhail aka “Palladium”, were arrested today for being members of LulzSec. They were ratted out by LulzSec leader, Sabu. Both lovely lads.

 

LulzSec Leader Sabu Was Working For Us, Says FBI (Guardian)

LulzSec Boss Turns On Associates, leading To Arrests, Report Says (Cnet)

Full screen. Sound up.

Astronomer’s Paradise, the first episode of a Atacama Starry Nights timelapse movie series. Atacama Desert in Chile, South America, is home to some of the world’s leading telescopes.

Sez filmmaker Chrisoph Malin:

I hope we could at least capture the magic of this very special place a bit – this is how the night sky looks like, if people care about light pollution. And we need more people to do that.

Via Neatorama

Confirmation from Bloomberg about the deal Greece did with Goldman Sachs in 2001. Former Fine Gael-appointed Attorney General Peter Sutherland, a vocal opponent of burning the bondholders, has been chairman of Goldman Sachs International since 1995

On the day the 2001 deal was struck, the government owed the bank about 600 million euros ($793 million) more than the 2.8 billion euros it borrowed, said Spyros Papanicolaou, who took over the country’s debt-management agency in 2005.

By then, the price of the transaction, a derivative that disguised the loan and that Goldman Sachs persuaded Greece not to test with competitors, had almost doubled to 5.1 billion euros, he said.

Papanicolaou and his predecessor, Christoforos Sardelis, revealing details for the first time of a contract that helped Greece mask its growing sovereign debt to meet European Union requirements, said the country didn’t understand what it was buying and was ill-equipped to judge the risks or costs.

 

Goldman’s Secret Greece Loan Reveals Sinners (Blomberg)

In the past ten years, as self-proclaimed conservatives have increased from sixty-two per cent of the Republican Party to seventy-one per cent, the percentage of Republicans describing themselves as moderates has declined from thirty-one per cent to twenty-three per cent. The number who call themselves “liberal” is now close to the number who describe themselves as Aleut or Eskimo.

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