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Forty Percent Take Fake Sickies

By Paperstone on 4 July 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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Hand Me Your Coat

By Paperstone on 2 July 2011 in Office Environment with 0 Comments
Hand Me Your Coat

Designer Thelermont Hupton’s coat hooks are welcoming, hostile, and bits in between. Hand gestures include “thumbs up”, “point” and “rock”.

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Gordon Ramsay’s Film Debut

By Paperstone on 30 June 2011 in Catering with 0 Comments
Gordon Ramsay’s Film Debut

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 […]

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Working Like a Dog?

By Paperstone on 27 June 2011 in Office Workers with 0 Comments
Working Like a Dog?

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 […]

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Remembrance of Things Almost Past

By Paperstone on 23 June 2011 in Post-It Notes with 0 Comments
Remembrance of Things Almost Past

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, […]

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Post-it Note Monsters

By Paperstone on 21 June 2011 in Post-It Notes with 0 Comments
Post-it Note Monsters

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.”

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Watch It Shred: Filing Cabinets

By Paperstone on 15 June 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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Broom-Wielding Dog Becomes Star

By Paperstone on 13 June 2011 in Janitorial with 0 Comments
Broom-Wielding Dog Becomes Star

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 […]

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Clear As Mud

By Paperstone on 10 June 2011 in Fun, Presentation Equipment with 0 Comments
Clear As Mud

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

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Grassy Desk Tidy Lifts Office Blues

By Paperstone on 10 June 2011 in Desktop Essentials with 0 Comments
Grassy Desk Tidy Lifts Office Blues

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 […]

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