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It could well be time to restart the discussion about the Olympic logo. I'm still not sold, It's horribly trendy dad and brings to mind the gruesome spectacle of Ken Livingston dancing to the Dizzee Rascal theme song while we cower in the corner thinking back to the golden era of barcelonaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. I am however prepared to admit that I may not be the target market here. Maybe there's strong consumer insight that the mid-life crisis market is the anchor of a good Olympics, though if this were the case then there'd be a pretty strong argument in favour of a targeted campaign around the gymnastics. Either way, I think I've finally found an uncontestable reason to hate the logo. The accompanying font looks like it could cause epilepsy all on its own:

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Love indexed...

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All three Bourne films followed by Team America. At the IMAX. I have a poor track record of falling asleep at the cinema but surely it would be acceptable here as my brain shut down to deal with an overload of badass and puppets

http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/imax/film/103?utm_source=20071005imax&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20071005imax

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The internet never ceases to amaze. A truly fantastic insight from some guy mourning the loss of Robert Jordan (creator of an unfinished >10,000 page epic):

This is absolutely horrible I've been reading the series since I was 16-17 :( I loved it so much I own every book 1 - 11 and I've been re-listening to them all on mp3 at work :( I think his work is an absolute masterpiece that will stand the test of time and be read and loved by generations to come. I am deeply saddened by this news and I do hope that through his wife and cousin his final vision is realized. I'm on the phone ending my relationship with my girlfriend right now and I saw this and I am far more devastated by this news than this break-up. This is utterly terrible for all who enjoyed his work.

http://digg.com/celebrity/Robert_Jordan_Wheel_of_Time_author_Dies

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Why do I want this so bad?
http://www.game.co.uk/ViewProduct.aspx?mid=330653&cm_sp=halo3-_-packshot-_-legendary
I'm trying not to fill my flat with crap but stuff like this makes it so hard...

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There just doesn't seem to be a way to win. There I was bitching about how it takes them nine months to replace a lift when the news that metronet were going into administration because nobody would pay them for doing shoddy work hit. I don't mind saying that I capered a bit. But now there's a strike happening, and once again they are impacting my life. Bartlett would nationalize them in a second. There's no way free market economics will improve the quality of the service when the cost to switch requires digging a tunnel under central London. I'm done now. Lol at the lolcat and relax with the fine music.

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Love the Conservatives. Despite being my only hope of escaping a huge tax burden they continue to obliterate their feet at every opportunity. If you had to think of a brand less likely to do well from viral marketing than the Conservative party you'd be hard pressed. This didn't stop a gallant team of backbenchers though:

YouTube:
http://uk.youtube.com/profile?user=SexyBritain

Vaguely interesting article in marketing week:
http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/item/57658?eid=59&ln=01

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I'm very excited. I can finally get photos oout of my phone. This isn't as awesome as it could otherwise have been as it would appear that I don't have the rock-like steadiness of hand that I'd imagined myself to have. A fact made clear by upping the screen size to monitor proportions. But it isn't all bad news, I can now share this peach of a poem. Previously it could only be viewed while paying for coffee in Giraffe and had to be read over the sounds of many babies crying:

This was apparently written by an eleven year old child. If so, the kid should leave school immediatley and focus exclusively on animal poems. For those of you without eyes of the hawk, the classic in full:

Its long neck, looking at wrecks

Eyes as big as lemons
spots as big as melons

Horns like metal sticks
legs with hard kicks

Leaves it eats
not like meat

A black tongue
looks like it's stung

A calf to
A giraffe

(Jodie Clark age 11, in case Sevitz gives me shit about plagarism again)

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It's been a while. More than a couple of months in fact. This is not the behaviour of a good blogger. I've been a bit busy with houses and powerpoint but still not a good showing. I've though about coming back but haven't been able to think of a suitable relaunch post. Until now...

Pizza express now has a pizza large enough to feed a real person. Up until this point they've had ones that look like a normal pizza just further away. No longer! Check out the pic, that's a normal wineglass:

It's called a Roma and now makes pizza express worth going to while hungry. Sadly they haven't been able to resist the lazy marketing innocent style copy:

"Our genuine pizzas are not like mama used to make, we have no idea how mama was"
ROFL

"Our new pizzas are thinner (Roman)
Crispier (Roman)
and can't sing opera for toffee (very un-Roman)"
ROFLcopterlolrus

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A video game article that contains the classic quote:

"World War 2 is the greatest war," maintains Pitchford. "It's arguably the most important and certainly the largest scale war the Earth has ever known." Consequently, a large majority of games involving conflict and soldiering are thereby centered around the Second World War.

Do we agree? Though I do love the the "toodle-pip-pip" voiceovers in Call of Duty, I'd have to say that video games tend to focus on shooty wars mainly because swordy wars tend to suck on a joypad.
*waits for the wii-mote to actually work while dreaming of pirates vs. ninjas 17*

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