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Do The (Erroneous) Math

By Paperstone on August 9, 2011 in Office Machines & Supplies with 0 Comments
Do The (Erroneous) Math

This calculator will frustrate, infuriate and possibly endanger. The Wrongulator is a calculator which spews out miscalculation after miscalculation. No sum, subtraction, multiplication or division will produce a correct solution. As the marketing bumf proudly states, “The Wrongulator is no ordinary calculator, its actually the world’s worst calculator as it never gives the right answer, […]

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Forty Percent Take Fake Sickies

By Paperstone on July 4, 2011 in Office Machines & Supplies, Office Workers with 0 Comments
Forty Percent Take Fake Sickies

Forty percent of UK office workers have faked a sickie in the last year, according to a poll commissioned by office design company, Maris Interiors.   Two in five desk drones have pretended to be sick at least once in the last year. Of those, 82 percent thought they got away with it and only […]

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Watch It Shred: Filing Cabinets

By Paperstone on June 15, 2011 in Office Furniture, Office Machines & Supplies with 0 Comments

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 […]

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Long-Distance Call

By Paperstone on May 25, 2011 in Office Machines & Supplies with 0 Comments
Long-Distance Call

Lakeysha Beard is escorted off train after speaking on her phone for 16 hours Last week a US woman was arrested and charged with disorderly contact after nattering on her phone for 16 hours in the quiet carriage of a train. The Oakland, California, to Salem, Oregon, train was stopped short of its destination so […]

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More Parliamentary Stationery Abuse Exposed

By Paperstone on April 10, 2011 in Office Machines & Supplies, Office Supplies with 0 Comments
More Parliamentary Stationery Abuse Exposed

Eric Illsley, the dashing but disgraced former MP for Barnsley Central, claimed £2,000 on expenses in November and December 2010 – that’s after his expulsion from the Labour Party and shortly before pleading guilty to expenses fraud. He became known as the first sitting Member of Parliament to be convicted of a criminal offence in […]

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Fake Faxes Fools Fuzz

By Paperstone on April 6, 2011 in Office Machines & Supplies with 0 Comments
Fake Faxes Fools Fuzz

A man who twice escaped from custody by having his wife fax fake release orders has been arrested by Spanish police. Fifty-seven-year-old Jose Carlos Serna was found in a hollowed-out sofa in his San Lorenzo del Escorial home. In December, while he was awaiting trial in a cell at Arganda del Rey courthouse, officers there […]

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Printer Sales Boost

By Paperstone on March 23, 2011 in Office Machines & Supplies with 0 Comments
Printer Sales Boost

Sales figures for printers and copiers are the most encouraging they have been since 2007, according to data from research firm IDC. Sales in the last three months of 2010 were up seven percent on the same period in 2009. Multifunction printers increased their share of the market to 67 percent while inkjet printers remained […]

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The Death of Everyday Office Supplies?

The Death of Everyday Office Supplies?

Everyday office objects such as waste bins, personal diaries and calculators face extinction, according to Real Business, a publication for entrepreneurs. Their recently published list of the top ten “most endangered” office products was compiled by e-commerce firm Pixmania-pro and based on current and historical sales data. The increasing ubiquity of smartphones and pressures on […]

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A Monkey Typing Shakespeare – The Odds

By Paperstone on March 14, 2011 in Computer Supplies, Keyboards, Office Machines & Supplies with 0 Comments

Watch this video for a lesson in probability. A genial professor asks, What are the odds that a monkey tapping away at a typewriter keyboard its whole life would type, “To be or not to be”? ”That is the question,” jokes the professor and we are told that a monkey typing three characters a second […]

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An Office Lost-It

The <PrtScn> function takes on new meaning as a wound-up rusty spring of an office worker tussles with a photocopier toner cartridge and gets sprayed with its ink powder. Avenging seemingly not only this outrage but existential injustice in general, the man tears his computer monitor from his workstation and places it screen down on […]

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