It’s always good to read some positive news and this story about a campaign run by T-Mobile is interesting:
News Blaze: You’ve Heard of Pickpockets, Putpockets Slip Money Into Unsuspecting Pockets
The only downside I see is that the people who are being rewarded with free cash are the ones most likely to have it removed by actual pick pockets shortly after.
One of the many applications on my iPhone is MotionX-GPS with gives you a lot of information from the GPS receiver built into the phone. It gives you proper long/lat coordinates for your position, calculates speed, direction and altitude and most interestingly can track your route over time and email you a Google Maps link and Google Earth file.
As I’m commuting further than I used to and am above ground for some of it I tested out the tracking on the train from London Victoria to East Croydon. It lost the signal a few times along the route (bridges and steep embankments didn’t help) but over all did a good job, you can view the route here: maps.google.co.uk.
On a massive billboard at Victoria Station there is an advertisement for the Financial Times. It features an excellent photograph of a huge crowd with a little figure in the corner speaking to them with the title “Who does the man everyone listens to, listen to?”
Apparently the answer is the Financial Times. Either way, it’s a great photo and intelligent advertising aimed perfectly at its audience.
Found on animalnewyork.com and reclamewereld.blog.nl
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There's nothing like a couple of hot slices of granary toast for breakfast.
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Another once premiership team finds itself in League 1 playing Leyton Orient...
I’m not a fan of political blogs – people ranting opinions and comment about their way the world should change, I prefer to leave that talk to the pub. But the stories recently of MEP Daniel Hannan’s attack on the NHS have lead to some unbelievable fibs being told about the NHS by lunatic campaigners across the pond.
This article in The New York Times (“British Leaders Defend Their Health Service”) sums it up pretty well and includes some crazy quotes, this one’s the best:
People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless.
(from an editorial in Investors Business Daily which has now been corrected)
