Archives – 2006 – November – 24  

Brandwatch: Burger King Angus
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In response to the growing interest in “premium” foods, Burger King will apparently be launching “The Angus” – the first fast food burger to gain accreditation from the shadowy organisation that licenses the Aberdeen Ang[…]

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The Bible Of Badness: EXODUS – Bob Marley
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In many ways I should be grateful for the existence of Bob Marley. If it were not for his greatest hits album, Legend, most people would probably own more than one Reggae record. In acting as a one man summary for this particularly dismal form of mus[…]

Poptimism – Lesson Twenty One
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Kiss Me – Robbie Williams
Rush – Aly & AJ [dance remix]
Will You Remember Me Tomorrow – Margaret Berger
Easy – Sugababes (Seamus Haji & Paul Emanuel Remix)
Hot Love – T Rex (more…)[…]

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The FreakyTrigger Top 25 Brands: 22: TARMAC
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Tarmac? What kind of a brand is that, its just the pavement, right? Wrong my friends. Tarmac is a brand and an awe-inspiring dominant one at that. I love brands whose names are synonymous with their main product, it shows an awesome degree of brand d[…]

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PUB-A-GO-ROUND
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When I first encountered it (1991 – considerable after this much older photo which on closer examination may well be of a completely different building on the same site) the pub at the St Clements Roundabout in Oxford (aka The Plain) was called[…]

Another great FT milestone: 100,000 spam
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About the same time we passed 5000 comments*, so 20 out of 21 comments are spam**. Nice. Many many thanks to akismet.com and the “Worst Offenders” plugin.
Free fun FT fact: we are now mobile phone friendly (looks like this)
(*RIP the comm[…]

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