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Iron Baby

So Marvel spend god knows how much on Iron Man II and then some bloke comes along and knocks up a version in his bedroom with some friends. God bless the Internet and bedroom geeks.

Lego Printer – A Work of Genius

The World Cup Predicted

  Here’s a mathematical analysis of the world cup courtesy of Wired magazine, I’ll be interested to see how well this plays out. I’ve got Uruguay in our work sweep stake so things are not looking too rosy for me… You can download a full size version here. Here are the odds as of today, June 2nd. Still feeling lucky punk?

Secret Messages

  I’ve always been quite fond of hidden messages, especially when embedded into an image. Here’s one courtesy of Sam Pike (at Suite) with a little Photoshop manipulation from myself to add some colour.

A Quick Plug for Interzone Films

So are you looking for a young talented Editor? Do yourself a favour and pop on over to see my friend Michael Gibson at interzonefilms.com there’s a selection of his previous work available here End of public service message..

MSN Messenger, Spam and Undies.

MSN Messenger loves to send me spam. Every time I log into the thing I get endless messages from people wanting to be my friend. I think however they all have the same agenda (and script by the look of it)

Search Engine Optimisation – Does Anyone Understand?!

Here’s my little snapshot in time of the search term “rickster” on the major search engines. I apologise the self aggrandisement, but I feel I should point out this not actually that clever as the term “rickster” is fairly nebulous and therefore doesn’t fall into any other categories. If I was top of the list for something more concrete like, errr, concrete for example it would be more impressive. What I have noticed however is the really rather odd results […]

Advertorial: PR Material Masquerading as News – BBC

Anybody notice that half the articles in the paper these days are thinly veiled advertorial for a product or service? Here’s one from the BBC website: The Pac-Man game Google put on its home page gobbled up almost five million hours of work time, suggests a study. The playable version of the classic video game was put on Google’s front page on 21 May to celebrate 30 years since the launch of Pac-Man in Japan. The search giant reworked the […]

Google Adwords – Curious Results and the top 10 new suggestions.

So here is my most successful ad campaign so far, with a staggering twelve click though conversions – for those not in the know about the inner workings of Google adwords – and I count that as pretty much everyone with any life to lead whatsoever – a “click though” conversion is when someone actually clicks on the ad and visits your site. So, from this we can conclude that the phrase “No Adverts Here!” is the best advert (this […]

Adverts masquerading as news items #126

Adverts masquarading as news. Hmmm, there’s a lot of this about these days. Read Flat Earth News for more information on the topic of the errorsion of proper reporting and the infiltration of press releases into the popular news. Depressing if interesting reading.

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