Don’t you think it strange that someone you never heard of with not the slightest talent – just a desire to make a fool of themselves in a show you’d never want to watch – is called a “star”. Yet …
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Logo insanity stalks the land – and Mr. Miliband moves us all to tears
How does design affect results? Take the 2011 Olympics logo – the visual equivalent of dogshit on a pavement. It’s hard to believe it can have done anything but harm, managing as it does to combine so deftly the hideous …
Read MoreSheer delight and a dash of misery from Bill Bryson
Schubert and Beethoven were walking down a street one day when they heard someone playing Mozart. Beethoven turned to his companion and said “You and I will never write anything that good.” I feel about the same every time I …
Read MoreA timely message bearing in mind the antics of Mr.Tindall
Who said rugby players weren’t intelligent? Jono Gibbs, Chiefs “Nobody in Rugby should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.” Phil Waugh “We actually got the winning try three minutes from the end but then …
Read MoreVariations on an old rib-tickler …
God knows when I first heard a version of this, but I liked this one Over five thousand years ago Moses said to the children of Israel, “Pick up your shovel, mount your asses and camels, and I will lead …
Read MoreGoogle hypocrisy: “Do as I say, not as I do.”
One sure way to get slapped by Google is having, crude, hand drawn arrows on a page with not much content. I love them because they work a treat. Anything that interrupts visually does. Google hates them because “they don’t …
Read MoreHow the wrong tone (plus a dash of illiteracy and a little overpromise) can kill your copy. And why I like recessions
Well, I had an excellent evening yesterday with Sarah Shaw Tatoun who used to be the pub critic of a Prague publication. The job of my dreams But before that I finished drafting a long interview piece for Australia’s Direct …
Read MoreThe blind leading the blind
Someone I never heard of just invited me to a “leadership development programme” starting with the usual bow to management-bollocks. “Engaged employees deliver constantly better performance in business”. What’s the matter with the married ones? More to the point, why …
Read MoreUriah Heap invades the kitchen. “Would you prefer your dish slimy, oily or just grovelling, Sir?”
Perhaps the first money I can recall making was cooking in my parents’ restaurant. I made pork chops stuffed with ham, sage and cheese. Very few deaths were reported. The restaurant which was above the pub was in the Good …
Read MoreResearch reveals yet another blinding glimpse of the obvious – if you know anything about selling,
My friend Michael Rhodes is the most diligent researcher into the weird and wacky world of the internet I know. Yesterday he sent me a piece headed “Mixed Feelings – How To Cultivate Emotional Engagement In Web Design” from a …
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