Tag Archives: credit crunch

Recession Blocker

15/10/2008

Simple, but not really all that useful. Stick in your favourite news website and it’ll block out words like loss, crash, etc. Here’s what it does to the Guardian…

Try it out for yourself…

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Borro.com – A Sign of The Times

11/10/2008

Online pawnbroking. A sign of the times in so many ways.
From Channel 4 News:

Now where did I put that Rolex…?

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Advertising Gambling as Insurance

22/09/2008

I guess it had to happen. Everyone’s realised that finance is a big gamble. So Paddy Power have started advertising their betting service as a kind of insurance against your holiday being ruined by an airline going bust.

The ad was placed in the Guardian travel supplement on Saturday.
More than half of me hates it. Less [...]

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Credit Crunch Minimix

17/09/2008

To try and lift everyone’s spirits I’ve put together a little (30min) mix of uplifting feel-good tracks to see if I can raise the mood of the internet. It’s a mix of styles from soul / mashups / hiphop / drum and bass / other so there’s something to suit some people in there.
Tracklist and [...]

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Credit Crunch Pricing – Free Internet and Coffee!

15/09/2008

The economies of the world may be crumbling, but on Brick Lane you can now get Free Coffee and Internet. We’ll be OK.

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Lovely Sandwich Photos

29/07/2008

I was playing with Flickr Storm and I stumbled on these brilliant lunchbox shots. Taking lunch to work is apparently the thing to do now the credit crunch is biting. I hope that reduced budgets don’t lead to reduced creativity in the land of crazy lunches.

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