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Drive – what motivates knowledge workers?

Saturday, July 31, 2010

I was given a book called Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us to read on my last holiday, and it provoked all sorts of thinking for me about what motivates the sorts of people I manage and work with. The RSA have just produced this excellent video bringing the author’s lecture there to [...]

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Beer, the enemy of a high IQ

Monday, July 12, 2010

Does anyone else think it’s odd that Pilsener Urquell (the makers of fine Czech lager) is partnering with Mensa, the High IQ society? Check out this website, and the cards being handed out in pubs. Surely anyone participating in the Pilsner Urquell Challenge will surely experience a temporary but measurable drop in their IQ. Is [...]

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Java 4Ever

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Thanks to Neil at Major Players for this.

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Such a disappointment!

Monday, February 8, 2010

Why isn’t there a hilarious website on this URL http://www.idontwantoneofthose.com/

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Brilliant!

Friday, October 23, 2009
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Conspiracy theory

Sunday, May 3, 2009

This is a link to Google’s Street View of the SIS HQ at Vauxhall. How did they get the bus to follow Google’s car all the way alongside the building? Was it waiting all morning for the Google car to come past? Cunning.

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Sign of the times?

Sunday, November 23, 2008
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Bill Gates gets into carpets

Friday, May 30, 2008

Bill Gates has bought a stake in the UK carpet retailer Carpetright, according to this article. A strange choice of business, at first sight, but what if he’s working on interactive floor coverings? Put the Carpetright story together with this one, and all becomes clear.

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$50 billion dollars shrinking fast

Friday, November 16, 2007

http://adverlab.blogspot.com/2007/11/ad-zappers-for-facebook.html lists a variety of plug-ins for Firefox that will remove contextual ads from your Facebook experience. It might get a bit tricky charging for ads that are being removed at the browser. Whether they’re counted as valid ad impressions before they’re removed isn’t made clear in the article.

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You know you’re a geek when…

Thursday, October 18, 2007

You understand why this car’s license plate is significant… …or you get this cartoon… Anything to add?

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