A Christmas Jamiraqle
A weekly serving of interesting things from the world around us.
You’ve been good this year so here are more digital gifts for your festive season.
And again if you have been getting into these newsletters, why not get into the spirit of giving and forward this on to someone else you think might get their interest piqued by a weekly list of random odds and ends. There’s always time to kill in that lazy melange of days just before the new year!
Anyway, enjoy these interesting tidbits and we’ll see you in the new year!
Back at it again for the 41st year, PNC has calculated the prices of the 12 gifts from the classic song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas” to formulate the PNC Christmas Price Index
Those jokers at MSCHF played a game of ‘telephone’ with the global supply chain to design a handbag
Did you think ringtones were dead? Think again!
Someone Is Sticking Googly Eyes on Public Sculptures in Oregon
Need a super quick moment of zen? Try One Minute Park
Medellin in Colombia has cut urban temperatures by 2°C in three years by planting trees.
Regarding the Jamiroquai GIF up top, that music video for Virtual Insanity was pulled together in a very clever way. A word of warning though, hearing (Oscar winner) Jonathan Glazer speak about how they filmed it does kill the magic a bit!
And as a perfect wrap up on this newsletter for the year, here’s a 33-minute long video on the history of slipping on banana peels, resplendent with charts, graphs, and lots and lots of research.
