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Breakfast Links: WiMax, NIN & Legos

Well from the ashes of disaster perhaps WiMax springs, renewed? Apparently a new consortium is in town, with Google, Intel, Comcast and Time Warner throwing their lot in with Sprint and Clearwire. Normally, I’d be concerned that Comcast and Time Warner were coming in, what with them increasingly in competition with the telcos, but A) it’d be nice to have more competition once WiMax actually exists and B) of the $12 billion, all the new partners are only contributing $3 billion with Sprint and Clearwire presumably footing the other 9. So I guess that makes for a whole bunch of junior partners. Who knows what’s going to happen, but I’ll keep my fingers crossed that this actually happens.

UPDATE: SAI is reporting the details, turns out just one partner Sprint has 51% of the consortium. Nice!

Ah well, in the meantime, you should be able to go and grab the latest Nine Inch Nails album, The Slip, fo free! With that last free album so successful Trent’s at it again, which is seriously kick ass if you ask me. Ask me, go on, I dare you. This in complete contrast with the lame Radiohead notice that their flirtation with the free was just a stunt that won’t happen again. Ah well, I’m sure all the major labels’ eyes will be on how many gold doubloons NIN pulls in with their sophomore attempt. In the meantime enjoy sanctioned free music!

And last but certainly not least and even more certainly not shortest check out what LEGO’s gone and done for their 50th anniversary. That’s right, they built a 100 foot tall LEGO tower. They had to use 500,000 bricks to build it and sadly it isn’t structurally sound, you can see the suspension wires they needed to add. Man, they should have cranked another few hundred thousand bricks and made some flying buttresses. I love a flying buttress. But anyhoos, you’re going to have to travel to the land of paranoia to see this bad boy, since it’s in the Legoland Windsor theme park. Or you can just look at the pretty pictures.