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Paperstone Xmas Opening Hours

By Paperstone on 13 December 2011 in Paperstone Company News with 0 Comments
Paperstone Xmas Opening Hours

If you need to order office supplies over the festive holiday period, we’re pleased to announce that we’ll be open for business on all working days to receive queries and orders by email and over the telephone. Deliveries will also be made on all working days. Orders can be placed via our website 24/7, as […]

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The Monetary Policy Game

By Paperstone on 7 December 2011 in Books & Pads with 0 Comments
The Monetary Policy Game

Given the banking sector’s inability to regulate itself and its seeming determination to endanger civil society, you may be forgiven for thinking that you could do a better job of handling money. Well why not try? Itself stricken with difficult policy decisions to make to keep the Euro alive, the European Central Bank has launched […]

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Poor Passwords Persist

By Paperstone on 6 December 2011 in Computer Supplies, Security Products with 0 Comments
Poor Passwords Persist

SplashData has released its annual list of the worst internet passwords. The passwords are ranked by how common they are. “Password” tops the list with the imaginative “123456” in hot pursuit. “Monkey”, “dragon” and “bailey” also feature (but why are they so popular?). The list in full: password 123456 12345678 qwerty abc123 monkey 1234567 letmein […]

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Countdown to Doomsday

By Paperstone on 2 December 2011 in Office & Personal Planning with 0 Comments
Countdown to Doomsday

December 21, 2012 is regarded as the end-date of a 5,125-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, or Mayan Long Count calendar. Some interpretations see this date as the beginning of a new era, others as the end of days. Mayanist scholars contest the significance of the date, saying that the date’s apocalyptic import […]

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Awkward Family Photos: 2012 Wall Calendar

By Paperstone on 1 December 2011 in Office & Personal Planning with 0 Comments
Awkward Family Photos: 2012 Wall Calendar

As we approach the potentially awkward time of year that is Christmas, think about buying a loved or hated one an Awkward Family Photos Wall Calendar for the New Year. Finances may well be under strain from the seasonal ritual of generosity, alcohol may fuel arguments over undercooked turkey, first-time meetings of prospective in-laws may […]

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Toilets of the World Unite

By Paperstone on 30 November 2011 in Janitorial with 0 Comments
Toilets of the World Unite

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 […]

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Global Road Kill 2012 Calendar

By Paperstone on 28 November 2011 in Office & Personal Planning with 0 Comments
Global Road Kill 2012 Calendar

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 […]

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Prisons of England Calendar

By Paperstone on 25 November 2011 in Office & Personal Planning with 0 Comments
Prisons of England Calendar

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, […]

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Mad Mayor’s Gay Water Claim

By Paperstone on 24 November 2011 in Catering with 0 Comments
Mad Mayor’s Gay Water Claim

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 […]

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Shred The Word

By Paperstone on 23 November 2011 in Shredders & Supplies with 0 Comments
Shred The Word

  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 […]

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