Show and Tell

This is brilliant. One of my work colleagues has a terrible cough and bought some Chinese herbal cough medicine. And it came with these AMAZING instructions. The text below says ‘Irritability caused by coughing and difficulty in breathing’.  Quite a nice and very charming departure from the typical text heavy instruction manual, don’t you think?

What’s Your Daily Routine?

No, don’t worry, I’m not going to start stalking you. I’ve just stumbled upon Daily Routines, a wonderful, more cerebral, more literary version of US Magazine’s ‘Stars…They’re Just Like Us’ section.  Once people leave full-time education and go into work, the most common complaint seems to be about following a schedule – getting up at [...]

I’m A PC and I Like It…

I like the new Microsoft advert – it’s the perfect antidote to the very twee, stereotype endorsing Apple ads. And much better than the decidedly annoying Seinfeld / Gates adverts. What do you think?

Sunning Myself in Mars

Mars24 is a really cool downloadable tool for all you astronomy fanboys and girls out there. It displays the Mars sunclock, a graphical representation of Mars and a readout of the time in 24-hour format, amongst many other cool things.   You can also use the program to display a panoramic view of where the [...]

Facing my manga

  Face Your Manga is a cool new service for the avatar obsessed. You can create your own avatar for any type of mood, weather or place and pretend to be a Japanese manga action hero, which is brilliant. The company has added a €1.50 fee to download and print, which I’m sure some people [...]

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