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November 11 th
Andy Drupal

Obama on Drupal

Without wanting to get into politics - this isn't that sort of blog area - it's interesting to see that The Whitehouse website is now on Drupal. Not a bad seal of approval...

See following article for more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obama_web_site

August 6 th
Martin Laughs

Kiwi sells "Scary washing machine"

New Zealand's ever popular ebay-isque trademe.co.nz continually brings up genuine laugh-out-loud auctions. The latest to storm the country (and media) is the hilarious if ever so slight deranged scary washing machine.

As the auction will eventually expire I've posted the listing below, but to get the full effect and the enormous comments section - head over to http://www.trademe.co.nz/Home-living/Laundry/Washing-machines/Top-loader.... The listing has proven so popular it now has associated dinosaur tee-shirts in printing and artworks being auctioned for charity!

Scary washing machine. No really, its terrifying!
Old mid 80's Fisher and Paykel top loader.
Goes like a rocket!

July 22 nd
Janick Food

Feed your mind

I had the chance to meet recently the highly energetic and inspiring Susan Jane Murray. After having developed an immune disorder and numerous food intolerances a few years ago, she decided to study nutrition and develop her own recipes, the kinds that will not only keep you away from prohibited ingredients, but more interestingly will make you feel good both inside and outside.

July 17 th
Mark Statistics

The best statistics you've ever seen

Hans Rosling lectures on global poverty, using a software package that presents statistics from the UN database in an accessible and fun way:

July 9 th
Roy Design

Creative Marketing

No one ever became successful by doing what every one else did. It was the person with the point of difference that stood out, the one that took a gamble, the one that dared to non-conform.

June 21 st
Andy Life

Jogging season

For all those joggers (that go 'round, and 'round and 'round)...

There's a great website, that lets you map your own running routes. Started using this site last year, but got lazy. Although now the weather seems to be improving (a bit), I plan to use it again.

It's really handy, as it lets you properly plot and measure your favourite routes. Rather than just guess them, which I used to do! However, it also means that rather than going home kidding yourself that you've done 6 miles, this will tell you the hard truth... (i.e that you've actually only done half that!).

June 15 th
Martin Design

Confessions of a design addict

I admit it. I love design. I do judge a book by it's cover and one of my most loved facets of design is Typography. I can spend hours drooling over beautiful type treatments. It doesn't matter whether it is in books, on a new product on the shelf, a gig poster, advertising or a fresh new website, if it has good typography, I'm hooked. A quick search on photo sharing site flickr.com for typography will bring an astounding list of results and some will leave you speechless. Check it out for yourself.
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=typography&w=all

June 9 th
Jon Design

Blue is the colour

What is it about blue? The websites that are part of our life and define our expectations of what a site should look like are all blue. Google , MSN.

Whether you are a political blue or red, your online news site is blue. Times Online, Guardian. The colour of the BBC News home page changes constantly but people have this image in their head of the BBC site being blue. Why is that?

June 7 th
Jon Strategy

Making insight critical

Our experience suggests that the key to getting your colleagues to interact with insight is to ensure that it is critical to everyday decision making. The vast majority of research becomes obsolete remarkably quickly. If you compare research to packaging or advertising, which live, breath and determine the success of a brand on a constant basis, research is an inactive inert part of the success of a business.

Consumers make decisions about price, product, packaging... They don't make decisions based on research.

May 28 th
Andrea Development

New semantic search engine

Stephen Wolfram developed a new search engine based on semantic computational algorithm.

Today it will be launched, WolframAlpha will be able not only to display a list of websites that contains our string of search, but will list related information about our research.

So if e.g. we search “330g of gold” , SERP (Search Engine Response Page) will bring out a list of websites that contain related infos to gold, like its monetary value, melting temperature and physical characteristics. This should make our life easier and make information more accessible.