nice work IFB! A great locations map from recent movies filmed (entirely or partially) in Ireland, showing where they were shot, what location they stood in for, and with screengrabs and clips

'There's no evidence that the US is currently suffering from an excessive amount of online piracy, and there is ample reason to believe that a non-zero level of copyright infringement is socially beneficial. Online piracy is like fouling in basketball. You want to penalise it to prevent it from getting out of control, but any effort to actually eliminate it would be a cure much worse than the disease.' Good description of 'dead weight loss' and the consumer pressure on the industry that illegal competition poses

'the insidious practice of color-grading every movie with a simplified, distilled palette of teal and orange', thanks to digital post-production (via Eoin)

across all media -- TV series, movies, *and* video games. fascinating (and can of course drill down to a specific type)

bored on maternity leave, this is what happens (via Niamh)

A Dublin mystery solved! those white plaster statues that covered Dublin, appearing in almost every council house window, explained

cool web-based, wikipedia-driven game from Jim Blackler; test your movie knowledge

my mate Sush is looking to fund 'a documentary set in India during the World Cup of Cricket in 2011 about Indian cricket fans and their personal stories.' Looks great -- might blog about this a bit more...

what are they up to? '1 per cent levy on the gross box-office takings of every cinema in the country ... Smaller cinema operators who attended a meeting ... said the proposal amounted in some cases to a five to sevenfold increase on their existing royalties payments.'

'a homebrew media player for the Nintendo Wii. It was initially created as a fork of Team Twiizers' port of MPlayer, combining elements of MPlayerWii, GeeXboX and other great homebrew contributions.' recommended by conoro

woo, interesting stuff on the Wii homebrew scene! MPlayer CE is apparently quite promising

nicely done; Lebowski a la Shakespeare (via Waxy)