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SPORT
YouTube.com

Another World Cup, another celebrity-filled advertising campaign for sports shoes. This one’s by Adidas, seeing cameos from David Beckham, Daft Punk, Snoop Dogg, Noel Gallagher and Ian Brown in a pastiche of the famous cantina scene in ‘Star Wars’. True to form, Brown and Gallagher are cast as troublemakers. ind.pn/9bAtnO

LITERATURE
SpotCoolStuff.com

Who said the book shop was dead? Not if it’s being housed in a 13th century Dominican cathedral, it isn’t. The key to keeping the hardback alive could be in the architecture that surrounds it – if this list of six of the coolest book stores is anything to go by. ind.pn/bcmnSZ

JOURNALISM
NyMag.com

This gripping profile tells the story of crooked former Wall Street investment adviser Bernie Madoff’s life inside South Carolina’s Butner federal prison as prisoner 61727-054. What does it involve? Being unrepentant about his fraudulent $65bn investment empire and John Grisham novels, apparently. ind.pn/9HAklX

FILM
FirstShowing.net

It’s the moment Harry Potter fans have been looking forward to and fearing in equal measure – the release of the final part of the film franchise, ‘Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows’, in November. If that’s too long to wait, check out the first sneak peak at the trailer, here: ind.pn/d4yY0U

SOCIETY
HollabackLDN

Lecherous men, a familiar scourge leering from their kerbside vehicles at innocent passing females, are about to get their comeuppance. This London-based website gives ladies the opportunity to upload pictures of the offending males, along with accompanying vitriol. ind.pn/ccimhZ

MUSIC
Wired.com

How does Trent Reznor, frontman of US rock group Nine Inch Nails, build up a track in his garage studio? With a vast array of synthesisers and sequencers, that’s how. Hear a deconstructed, blow by blow audio guide of his songwriting process. ind.pn/bOIMa6

ADVERTISING
CreativeReview.co.uk

The French lead the way, at least as far as McDonald’s advertisements are concerned. The fast-food outlet’s latest campaign on the Continent involves a demonstration of the widening nature of its customer base – including a father and his gay son. See a discussion of the campaign’s merits here: ind.pn/dil8YN

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