Month: March 2006
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Dan Brown Case
As many people know, there’s an ongoing court case between Dan Brown, writer of The Da Vinci Code, and a couple of the authors of a piece of cod-history called The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail which was published quite a few years ago. At first glance, it seems as though it’s a battle…
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Mobile Downloads
Orange just sent me an email promoting their usual stuff – films, music, downloads etc. I was curious about what they were doing with V for Vendetta, so I followed the link. There I learnt I could download various media… except that I can’t. Each time the 247 code that I should text to receive…
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28.8 Billion Watch The World Cup
There’s a nice World Cup supplement with this week’s Marketing Week highlighting opportunities and thing to steer clear of when you try to link the World Cup with your products this summer. On the one hand you, seemingly, can’t use the following words in your promotional material if you’re not a sponsor: FIFA, FIFA World…
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Death of a Planetarium
All very sad.
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Dispatches
A new run of the Channel 4 series, Dispatches, has started up recently. I’ve only watched a few, Peter Oborne’s report on losing our liberty, and this evening’s report by Rod Liddle on evangelical Christians. I also saw the Ryanair exposé. Now I won’t get into the rights and wrongs of the content of the…
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I Met Stewie
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Cream Eggs
I don’t especially like them, but I was curious about Tesco’s strange pricing policy in regard to Cream Eggs. Maybe it’s to disincentivise us and thus prevent us making ourselves sick. So you can buy 3 for 99p: Get a 3 “pack” for £1.02: Or if you want 6 it’ll cost you £2.07: Each time,…