Month: January 2011
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Leyton Orient vs Arsenal, 32 years later
To celebrate Orient’s cup tie against Arsenal in the Fith Round of the FA cup, here’s a piece by the Times from the last time they met in 1978, where they were defeated 3-0. Malcolm Macdonald scored twice, both times aided by a wicked deflection, before Graham Rix completed the scoring midway through the second half. Arsenal…
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The last resort – Little people project
A great new piece in Wandsworth by The Little People Project, going steady since 2006. Thanks to www.likecool.com and of course little-people.blogspot.com
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For once football isn’t a business metaphor, it’s a real life example.
I’ve just discovered an excellent piece Nick Emmel rote last year about online customer engagement “A lesson in connecting with your customers” which talks about transparency, interaction, communities and trust. It revolves around the near death of Crystal Palace Football Club last year, and how the new owners are engaging with the fans through online…
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I love a good blue plaque
Roy Reed, of ReedDesign has very kindly individually mapped London’s 957-ish blue plaques . I get the impression it’s taken some time but is far more useful than the English Heritage alphabetical search. Have a look at them all at reeddesign.co.uk More at Roy’s blog and with thanks to londonist.com for telling everyone.
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Knokkers: When billiards and bowling collide
This is a great idea. Shame the tagline is so lame: “Want to play with knokkers?” Is that the best they could come up with? From dvice.com and www.ohgizmo.com with official info at www.knokkers.com
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KeyKeyring
The simple ideas are often the best, having a product that’s reduced down to it’s absolute bare minimum. Like this Keybrid key keyring hybrid: Found at www.likecool.com and available at www.etsy.com
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Olympic Legacy
What the future holds, through the eyes of Diamond Geezer: 2013: West Ham kick off their tenantship of the Olympic Stadium with a Division 1 home match against Accrington Stanley. Fans bring binoculars. Read the full 11 year forecast of Spurs and West Ham’s future…
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My cat actually plays with a cat toy.
We’ve had a cat for over 3 years, and people have often brought him gifts, little fluffy things and jingley balls which he ignorantly ignores. But this Christmas he was brought some Jolly Molly Catnip Leaf Balls. These are covered in real catnip and set our Manfred mental. Really mental. Crazed look in the eye…
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Rob was in Croydon yesterday
There’s two things that resonated about this blog post by insearchofthefairydust. 1. I’ve worked in croydon for 18 months and can confirm that so far, although I’ve had some good times; “Nobody ever wakes up, and punches the air when they know a morning in Croydon awaits them.” 2. Everyone knows someone like “Rob”. They…
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Music from Misfits
The things you do during the quiet times over Christmas. Like make a playlist of all the music from the TV series Misfits on Grooveshark…. Series one Series two Find them both on grooveshark: Series 1 playlist and Series 2 playlist. I couldn’t find all the tracks, E4 have a full listing of all the tracks used…