giant puppets in downtown reykjavík: story link : video

(bonus random image link that has nothing to do with the puppets but is beyond fantastic!)

1: a 2007 election here in finland will have some “celebrity” candidates: teen rapper pikku gee and yer man from the finnish curling team from the winter olympics. yle.fi link.

2: metro mene länteen! the sign in ruoholahti metro station will finally mean something proper! yle.fi link.

a large multifantastical company (wasaki) wants to build a new island off the coast of dublin in the shape of a shamrock. the island will have playgrounds, motorway access, tram line access, 14km of coast, 42,000 lukury apartment and lots of office space. what really makes it fantastic though is that it will have the worlds only giraffe zoo!.

construction on seamrog island will take 3 years and everything will be fantastic.
project website
project video

(98% of me thinks this is a joke)

update: yup: spoilt.ie piece and boards.ie thread. viral marketing in ireland enters the 21st century. (it was all for some new housing website in ireland…. just what the housing market needed in ireland – more hype)

when i was getting ready to go out last night i seemed to have misplaced my wallet. couldnt find it anywhere. i checked everywhere in my room but no sign. retraced my steps but nothing. so just after midnight i started to “ring officialdom” to tell them that the card has been lost. i rang my finnish bank (spoke for 2m47s in finnish! woo!) and my irish credit card companies. was more worried about having to go to the police this morning to get my two state id cards reported as being lost. so i wake up this morning and get ready to go for a shower – i find the wallet in my bathrobe?!. i have no idea how it got there. so i ring back the finnish bank people and tell them and the woman there seemed genuinely happy that i found it. life goes on.

taken last summer in atocha station in madrid.