2012 is the last year of the 5,125-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, the year in which our species gets flushed down the toilet, so to speak. Perhaps, then, it is appropriate (in an abstruse sort of way) that we count down to 21 December, 2012 (the projected date of cataclysm) with the […]
For the last week or so, we’ve been bringing some of the offerings of quirky calendar retailer roundaboutsofbritain.com to your attention. Amongst our favourites are Her Majesty’s Prisons of England 2012 and Birmingham’s Outer Circle Eleven Bus Route (anti-clockwise) 2012 calendars. We round off our highlights of roundaboutsofbritain.com with their top-seller for the last few […]
Now in its fourth year of “bird,” Her Majesty’s Prisons of England Calendar sets a criminal justice system theme for the coming year, showcasing Albion’s finest disciplinary institutions (in the Foucauldian sense). With its imperial past fading into distant memory, Britain can now celebrate on its new centres of excellence: banking and finance, arms exports, […]
The mayor of the small coastal town of Huarmey, Peru, fears his town is being turned gay by contaminated water. Mayor José Benítez claims that naturally occurring strontium in the local water supply is reducing the production of male hormones and thereby emasculating the male population. “Unfortunately Strontium reduces male hormones and suddenly we’ll be […]
Computers used by News of the World staff were destroyed by putting them “through a grinder” last autumn when News International was being sued for phone hacking. Computer equipment including hard drives was “taken out and smashed up” during a move around October last year, prior to the launch of Operation Weeting, the Metropolitan […]
Insane Asylums of England 2012 is a calendar which celebrates the dubious legacy of the country’s most notorious institutions for the psychically unwell and ostracised. From the Bethlem Royal Hospital of London to Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, England’s finest insane asylums are given the calendar treatment, a month dedicated to each one. Photographs of the […]
Still looking for a way to count the days of 2012, a year about which, the Mayans would have it, to be mildly pessimistic? roundaboutsofbritain.com offer you “a whole Welsh gaggle of gyratory gems” in the form of Roundabouts of Wales 2012 Calendar. This calendar features 12 of Wales’ best, from Cardiff’s one-way gyratory to […]
Create a clothing mobile by sticking your garb on coat hangers that are fixed to the ceiling. In the dark, you’ll be able to make out vague silhouettes of floating, headless torsos. That image should help give you restful sleep. Flying Hooks are available from Dutch retailer Theo (designer Thorsten van Elten‘s outlet).
There are more chickens on the planet than humans. Chickens are the closest living relative of the tyrannosaur. You can hypnotise a chicken by holding it and drawing a line in the dirt repetitively. Chickens are extraordinary. Celebrate the fanciest examples of the beast with the Extraordinary Chickens 2012 Wall Calendar. This particular chicken calendar […]
Andy Warhol was early in anticipating (and contributing to) the commodification of culture. He challenged notions of authorship, authenticy, origin and value in art by drawing from popular and commercial culture to create instantly recognisable and very reproduceable images. It is all too apt that in an age in which we consume things before we […]
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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