I can barely describe how excited I am about the next episode of the GTA series: Grand Theft Auto 5. Known for their cinematic engagement, stunning visuals, open-ended play and well-rounded characters, the franchise gets better and better with each release. Grand Theft Auto 5 should be something quite special. And from the recent marketing…
Month: August 2012
An Open Letter to Michael Gove from a Teacher
This is going viral, originally from TES: Dear Michael Gove, You will never read this, but I feel compelled to put it out there in the faint hope that more people will realise the repercussions of your latest initiative. I am proud to work at a small school, on a small estate, in the…
What Do You Think of Microsoft’s New Logo? (Updated)
It has been 25 years since the last redesign but here it is, Microsoft’s new logo: What do you think? Microsoft’s New Logo I do believe that companies should refresh themselves every so often. Microsoft’s old logo is a classic and timeless so there must have been something significant to have encouraged them to…
Top 10 Jokes from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
A panel from excellent Brit TV channel, “Dave“, have compiled their Top 10 Jokes from the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Here they are: 10. Nish Kumar My mum’s so pessimistic, that if there was an Olympics for pessimism… she wouldn’t fancy her chances. 9. Lou Sanders I waited an hour for my starter…
The Gentlemen’s Guide To Toilet Etiquette: Part 3
Taxonomy Taxonomy is the classification and categorisation of… uh, stuff. First we will look at the various kinds of toilet paper you will find, bog roll if you will, their properties and the differentiators between them. If you go into your local supermarket-me-do, you will notice that for a half-decent toilet roll you’ll pay about…
Push vs. Pull
There are two ways make a product successful: either you saturate consumers with marketing so there literally is no other choice but to buy it (“push”), or you make the product so appealing that it hardly needs any marketing capital at all (“pull”). Apple Right now, Apple is proving that pull is the approach…
“Don’t Be Evil” – Do You Trust Google?
Do you trust Google? Should you trust Google? Can you trust Google? Google is on the fast train to becoming an international scandal. In May 2010 it emerged that when the company sent out its roving camera cars to take all those “Street View” photos, it also slurped up any and all WiFi data it…