A film in which Gordon Ramsay makes his acting debut has done incredibly badly on its release. Love’s Kitchen, in which the foul-mouth celebrity pot-botherer stars as himself, took a hilarious £121 in its first week. That means that 17 fans made the mistake of going. The film revolves around an up-and-coming restauranteur in London […]
Last Friday, 24th June, was Take Your Dog To Work Day in the US. The day is intended to raise awareness and improve the lives of shelter dogs. Thousands of businesses opened their doors to dogs to promote pet adoption. But the day also drew attention to the benefits that pets can confer on a […]
Stationery heaven: an almost defunct office object gets resurrected via an office supplies archetype. These SUCK UK sticky notes extol the venerable 3.5” floppy disk. Their time was distinctly technological, but also pre-millennial, pre-New Labour and a bit clunky. Now it’s all about cloud data storage, super-injunctions and frightening change. We still sell floppy disks, […]
Don Ken draws monster illustrations on Post-it Notes in his spare time. “It is a little window into a different world, made on office supplies.”
If you like watching things get destroyed, SSI Shredding Systems’ Shred of the Month may be up your street. SSI’s industrial shredders make light work of anything from aluminium cans and medical waste to couches, filing cabinets and tree stumps. SSI have provided a movie gallery of industrial shredders in action. Watch a filing cabinet […]
A golden retriever who sweeps the streets while walking has become an online star in China after being photographed sweeping the streets of he was photographed using a sweeping brush to sweep up while walking in Changchun, Jilin Province. The dog slaloms a zigzag course along the pavement, occasionally seeking approval from his owner, Xu […]
Projector manufacturers InFocus recently held a competition, “What Not to Present”, to uncover the worst in presentation skills via the medium of PowerPoint. Have a look at the whole panoply of obfuscation. Dim the lights, speak in tongues, sow the sweet seed of confusion. Via Boing Boing
Crafted from wood and natural bristles, the Pratonzolo is a grassy desk organiser which can lend a bit a bit of colour green and order to a monotone plastic-cluttered desk. The Pratonzolo is designed by Max Battaglia and Matteo Mocchi of the design studios Givingshape and BBMds for Italian company Stylemylife. This desk tidy will […]
British office workers struggle to find important files they thought they had saved on their work computer, according to a new poll. The Iron Mountain-commissioned YouGov research finds that 58 percent of office workers have had difficulty locating such files. With some 60 percent of company data now being kept on PCs and laptops, looking […]
The Cabinet Office minister, Francis Maude, has announced plans to centralise the procurement of stationery by Government departments. This follows a recommendation in Philip Green’s Efficiency Review that Government could wield its buying power more effectively. Poor value contracts in the past have meant wide disparieties in prices paid for the same office products, for […]
How to plan the office Christmas party Whether you count down the days, or desperately scrabble around for an excuse not to go, the office Christmas party is an event on almost every company’s calendar. So, how do you plan a party that everyone will enjoy? It’s a tricky balance to get Bob from Accounts […]
Top tips to improve your time management skills Despite what people say, time is not a commodity. It cannot be traded, expanded or reduced. It is fixed. Our perception of time, however, is another concept. How often do you think at 4pm “Where has the day gone?” and go into panic mode to try to […]
Planning in business is essential Everything from the monthly sales drive to a new product launch or project needs planning. It promotes joined-up thinking and good decision-making throughout the whole organisation. “A goal without a plan is just a wish”, observed the famous writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery, summing up a key business principle. Each business […]
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