Monthly Archives: January 2008

Loving Love

I popped in to see the chaps at Love in Manchester today. I don’t normally just turn up in strange towns and nip round to see people, but I got nice email from them yesterday as I was on the train (completely out of the blue), so it felt like fate was trying to tell [...]

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The Omelette Bomb

My trip to Manchester was made awesome by witnessing ‘The Omelette Bomb’ – a piece of extreme Teppanyaki showboating the likes of which I’ve never seen before…

Thank goodness I had my camera with me…

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A Postcard From Manchester

I’m in Manchester doing some work.
It’s good for me to get back to ‘the north’ from time to time. Last time I was actually in Manchester everyone had really baggy jeans (like 28-inch bottoms), Madchester t-shirts and curtain haircuts. I was glad, and not surprised, that times have changed.
I’m always amazed at how many [...]

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Do You Want to Do Digital?

Scamp asks the $6m question:
Most above-the-line creatives claim that most digital creative work is poor, and they will be able to do it much better, when they’re asked to. However, my question to above-the-line people is… do you actually want to?
Did you come into this business to sell, by any channel necessary?
Or did you come [...]

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Pownce Errors

I’m not convinced that I need Pownce (yet), but I did like their error message:

I wonder if they’ve got clearance for the image use?
if you’ve got a web business these days you need to have a great error page. I bet most brand consultancies haven’t cottoned on to this yet. Next time I see [...]

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The Dangers of Change

The world’s gone mad. Since when has giving change been a security issue? I could understand that giving change might be a pain in the arse for people working in shops. But to escalate it to this seems bonkers.
I love the fact that ‘Security Reasons’ has been capitalised too. Makes it all the more [...]

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Brighton Got Wood

It appears that the wood from the sunken ship has made it down the cost to Brighton. It’s nowhere near as impressive as it looks in Worthing, but it’s not bad.
It’s nice to see how much fun people can have with a bit of wood. But there are some splinter warnings out…

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Twitter Tip

Those bugging Twitter tips when it has some extra characters to use up are usually just a pain in the bum. This time though it seems like it almost makes sense…

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Hot “New” Dance Step

Forget jumpstyle. This is the hot new dance step (well it was hot and new in 1930)…

Check the user ‘GoodOldDays‘ for loads of great vintage videos. There’s some amazing stuff in there.

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Understanding Art for Geeks

Very funny Flickr set by Paulthewineguy. Number 43 had me ROFLMAO.
Thanks metafilter.

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