In No Particular Order

Spotted at a client: so nude, it’s invisible.

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Came across this ad the other day – couldn’t believe the language used. Not sure if the client approved this, the sub-editor was drunk or the recruiter really hated the client.
Names have been removed to protect the guilty. What does this say of the firm or the client?

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Originally uploaded by Emma and Lorenzo Wood
Hot on the heels of MySociety’s iPhone app for their wonderful FixMyStreet service, Lorenzo spotted this in the wilds of Shoreditch…
Numbered CCTV is one thing (a la Westminster’s unique parking location references (UPLs?)) but texting incidents is a step further.
The cynic in me wonders if this means that the [...]

Twitter / Neal Preece

Well, I’ve read too many 2009 predictions and resolutions and am thoroughly sick of them. Then I came across Neal’s thought on Twitter and it made me laugh: had to share it – my favourite pronouncement of 2009…
“I’ve thought long and hard, and have decided on my New Year’s resolutio n. 1024×768.”
Classic.

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Leaping Donkey (IMG_3300.JPG)
Originally uploaded by ikj
We decided not to slob this New Year’s Day and so made a picnic and headed out to walk in St James’ Park. The idea was to have the park to ourselves, no traffic, free parking and a bracing run around then humble picnic (since of course nothing’d be open).
Wrong!
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Sigh – maybe it’s ironic? Or a graphic designer’s claim that an apostrophe can live above a random letter?
Apostrophe is more like ‘Nopostrophe’ with their season’s greetings…

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Someone’s had an irony bypass here…
Courtesy of Lorenzo’s photostream.

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Couldn’t have invented this – I just wish I’d been the one to find it
 
“When officials asked for the Welsh translation of a road sign, they thought the reply was what they needed. Unfortunately, the e-mail response to Swansea council said in Welsh: “I am not in the office at the moment. [...]

BT is selling off some secret WW2 tunnels, originally built as air-raid shelters during the Second World War.
Water, leccy etc all provided. Probably quiet too. Views won’t be great (!) but it’s quite a talking point and you’d be able to jog for a mile each day without leaving your home.
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The San Francisco Citizen | Google Employees Press 14 Buttons to Operate Their Toilets.
Wow. Admiration and fear.
I don’t understand quite how “Front Wash” can be effective while yet not splashing one’s shirt…
I also have a concern about continued functioning during a power cut. Backup power generation?
For those who’ve read Philip Kerr’s Gridiron – “a story [...]

Proofing and subediting are tricky, demanding and under-rated skills.
Still, the time to find and listen to those skills would be <thinks> before printing thousands of carrier bags</thinks>.
Then again, maybe not.

Let the presses roll. Oh, and see if we can find St Christpoher’s Place on Google Maps…
UPDATE: I’ve shown this to 8 people, none of whom [...]

Design and Society: Celebrity worship isn’t restricted to ‘low-brow’ media
Heh – gloriously tart-yet-restrained review by Nico Macdonald on Sienna Miller’s appearance on the Today programme. A deft swipe at celebrity vapidity, unchallenging interviewing and the content-free orthodoxies around ‘carbonanitification’ discussions. I won’t quote it – just have a read

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This made me chuckle: an over-zealous, non-cycling, generally unaware parking attendant in Westminster seems to have missed the fact that Pall Mall was closed specifically for the TDF official cars, but hey ho. Can’t imagine this being chased all the way round the Tour though…
Otherwise it was a really fun day: hanging out [...]