Sunday Times spellchecker replaces Mitt Romney with a more roomy candidate
Click to enlarge Leafing through this morning's Sunday Times, I thought for a moment that US presidential candidate Mitt Romney had a new nickname of "Roomy", which I hadn't heard before. But it would appear to be that in a tempestuous late night battle at the newspaper, a plucky little Spellchecker ... Click here to read the rest...
Born to Jump
I'm always amused when Google's AdWords ads go wrong. They're supposed to be "contextual", assessing the search query and matching the right ads to it. My amusement at coming straight in at number one in the Google search results for "discount booze for tramps" (following a blog post about an ... Click here to read the rest...
Discount Booze at The Local. For selected tramps.
Bad product branding always cheers up a dull day for me. There are all sorts of reasons why a product or business might launch or re-brand itself amusingly awfully, but the most obvious ones seem to be: [1] A terrible idea sometimes gets right through the marketing department and out the ... Click here to read the rest...
Effective banner ad design
I just posted this to a private newsgroup in answer to a question, but it's worth repeating more widely. Here are six ways to make your online banner advertising better value for money! Click here to read the rest...
Healthy Start
Our new health service equipment news web site has launched, edited by Paul Buckley. It's been most of the year in preparation, and it deserves to do really well. Click here to read the rest...
Put yourself on a plinth yeah?
Unquestionably the thing on TV at the moment which makes me laugh the most is Modern Toss. Indeed it's the only TV for a long time which has made me giggle out loud, so much so that Mrs R came down to find out what it was all about. And ... Click here to read the rest...