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  • Sign: "Alcohol purchases in this motorway service area can not be consumed inside or outside the premises."

    Signs Seen in Service Stations

    After a few motorway service station visits, Dan wonders how to drink alcohol in a parallel dimension, and whether its okay for Costa to make light of addictions.

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    • 4 comments
    • posted 23 May, 2012
  • Image representing post: All Noise, No Product

    All Noise, No Product

    After coming across a product called SonicNotify, Dan discovers that it is possible after all for somebody to invent a protocol that he's not interested in trying out. Perhaps if it weren't so full of fail...

    Read more - about 3 minutes (513 words)

    • Article
    • 9 comments
    • posted 23 March, 2012
  • Image representing post: Little Things

    Little Things

    A little under a fortnight after the death of his father, Dan explains how it's the little things, and not the big things, that are hardest for him.

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    • Article
    • 5 comments
    • posted 1 March, 2012
  • Amateur Lesbians

    I've recently reformatted and reinstalled, and that means that - briefly - I ended up seeing advertisements on the Internet again, until I had my ad-blocker reinstalled. And so I came to see an advertisement that promised to let me see "amateur lesbians".

    Now you and I both know perfectly well what they mean, but I've โ€ฆ

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    • Article
    • posted 12 August, 2010
  • Eat Bertha's Mussels!

    On the way back from Geek Night at Rory's, saw the following bumper sticker:

    A little googling places it as belonging to a restaurant in Baltimore. But it caught my attention on the way back through Aberystwyth tonight, so I thought I'd share it. Perhaps the marketers among you can learn something from this compelling โ€ฆ

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    • Article
    • posted 29 June, 2008
  • Axe Feather

    Bookmarked via del.icio.us: Axe Feather.

    Tickle that girl. Damn sexy.

    Many years later, I'd go on to recreate this advertisement using modern web technologies.

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    • posted 14 June, 2005
  • Lost Apple "1984" Videos

    Bookmarked via del.icio.us: Lost Apple "1984" Videos.

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    • posted 9 February, 2005
  • Image representing post: HSBC Advertising

    HSBC Advertising


    Gotta love HSBC. No, this isn't a real ad.

    Read more - about 1 minutes (9 words)

    • Note
    • posted 19 July, 2004

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