From the new Wikileaks trove, via PoliticalWorld.org, an email from an analyst at private intelligence firm Stratfor with advance reports from Moodys on Ireland’s sovereign debt risks in November 2010, attached.
Hmm.
Above: The Wizard Of Oz (1939), Jaws (1975) and LOTR: Return Of The King (2003).
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Thanks Allan Cavanagh
From Brendan Smith’s ‘Speedie Blog’:
One of the unexpected side benefits of the recently established and highly successful Galway city Coderdojo club, based at DERI and IT in NUI Galway, is the high level of fathers present that are obviously enjoying the quality learning time that they are spending with their children and most noticeably with their sons. There are of course many mothers and daughters in attendance. But I just can’t help but be impressed with the amount of fathers that turn up every Saturday who are actively participating in their sons education and learning something new in the process…
Mmf.
Galway City Coderdojo Club Promotes Father and Son Bonding (Speedie’s Blog)
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From top: Woesinger; Colm Ryan; Paul Moloney; Smurflove; Continuity Jay-Z; Dave Ryan and Paul Moloney (again)
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He carries all your data in his man bag.
Debuting tonight. This is the 60 second version.
Some incredible bike skillz by Eircom’s Director of WOW.
No seriously. That’s his position.
Well, at least he has a job.
Thanks Darragh Doyle
Can you name all biking locations?
Iarla writes:
The Sex Pistols have just signed a new deal with Universal Music (see below), which if they got a decent advance/signing fee will mean that because of mergers etc., they will essentially have gotten 5 advances for the same album from what is now the same company. The Great Rock’n’Roll Swindle indeed. Breakdown as follows:
1976 – Sex Pistols sign a deal with EMI. They get dropped weeks later, but keep the advance. (Famously singing about it on “EMI Unlimited”)
1977 – Sex Pistols sign a deal with A&M. They get dropped weeks later, but keep the advance.
1977 – Sex Pistols sign a deal with Virgin, who eventually releases the album.Meanwhile, over in the land of labels consolidating with each other…
1992 – Virgin Records sold to EMI, meaning that Sex Pistols are back
on EMI (re-inking a new deal, new Best Of etc.)
1998 – Polygram (who bought A&M in 1989) gets bought by Universal,
meaning all A&M catalogue ends up on Universal.
2011 – EMI bought by Universal.
2012 – Sex Pistols sign a new deal with Universal.Which means the Sex Pistols have signed a deal with EMI (twice), A&M, Virgin and now Universal, all of whom are now/will be owned by Universal, and all essentially for the same album – “Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols.”
And the lesson?
This is why you should own the copyright to your own albums.
