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It’s a sunny day really
Last time it snowed there were loads of snowy pictures posted on the blogosphere so I decided to do something different this morning and put up the sunniest picture I could find… Image courtesy Dennis Flood
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Not often you see this…
Sometimes nature and man combine into something spectaular – this (here in all it’s glory) is absolutely stunning. People have gathered on a beach in Perth, Australia to watch a sky light up. On the left are fireworks in celebration of the recent Australia day, on the right the flashes of an approaching thunder storm…
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Which housepaint are you?
I’m conscious I’ve been a bit worthy on my last few posts so here’s a bit of idle fun. Over on Amelia’s blog she has just discovered here that she is Benjamin Moore “Royal Evening Baja Avocado” gloss interior acrylic latex. I, on the other hand, am Utrecht ‘Cadmium Orange’ acrylic (2oz tube), and I’m…
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Rebranding rubbish
Thanks to the Henley Centre Headlight Vision which put me onto Cradle to Cradle, a new book by Michael Braungart and William McDonough which has an interesting take on sustainability. Their argument (printed on recyclable plastic no less) is that in a world of increasingly scarce resource the only way we’ll be able to maintain…
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Mapping the universe (2)
I’ve posted a few times about maps. With ubiquity of information, choice and content I believe that alongside search, dynamic maps of all kinds will be increasingly important tools to help consumers navigate, understand and differentiate. There’s a big subject here, of which more later, but just for a bit of fun and just to…
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Green Floyd
Everything really is going green. Just to show how hip this message is, here is the video for the Eric Prydz vs Floyd single. Great shots of kids bmx-ing and street-jumping their way around an estate in a valiant effort to replace normal with energy efficient bulbs, and switch off unwanted lights. The Energy Savings…
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Mapping the internet (1)
In my new found mapping zeitgiest, here is a rather neat map of the current internet trends from the guys at Information Architects in Japan. The iA Trend Map shows all the big players and how they’re connected, and in their own words is ‘totally unscientific and almost useless, but definitely fun to look at.’…
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The house that Tesco built
Incidentally, (following the green news) Tescos are also reportedly moving into house building and will be overseeing the construction of 2,000 homes in the next three years, including 698 luxury apartments (Tesco’s finest range?) situated next to a big new Tesco store. So in other words, even if there’s no local retail market for a…
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Everything’s gone green…
(image courtesy of JD) I’ve posted before on my view that one of the key brand battlegrounds for 2007 (notably for retail) will be the environment. Following M & S’s broad-reaching environmental and ethical programme announced a couple of weeks ago, Tesco have now sent reinforcements to their environmental credentials by announcing that it will…
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Throwback of the week
I am, of-course, an 80’s throwback so rather than bury this fact in the odd post on my blog I thought I might be loud and be proud of my dodgy retro tastes by posting a regular ‘Throwback of the week’ in my sidebar (see left). This will be a weekly guide into the eclectic…