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May 17th, 2008

Save the Adult Swim Workers

This is funny, in a sick kind of way -Save the Adult Swim Workers. (Actually, don’t watch if you don’t like swearing, drugs and bad taste jokes)

As the video says:
Years of abuse have left Adult Swim workers unable to produce the high quality comedy you’ve become accustomed to, and with allegations of gross financial […]

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April 30th, 2008

Canon EOS and The Assignment

I love my Canon Cameras - I’ve had 3 of them. I currently use the Rebel XT EOS and the PowershotSD1000 and I love both of them. The Canon emails are one of the few product emails that I read, so when I got one about the new ESO model, the 450D, I read […]

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April 4th, 2008

Grand National Betting Email

Last year I had a small bet on the Grand National before proceeding to watch it over Slingbox whilst in my US apartment. I used internet betting for the first time, a simple, easy thing to do.
This morning, I saw that William Hill had sent me a mail, asking me if I was going to […]

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February 13th, 2008

Across the Universe Valentine

The Beatles are also getting in on the Valentine ecards this year, or at least their songs are, as performed on the film/DVD Across the Universe. A weird ecard, psychadelic in form, that sends along a full version of the song as performed in the film.

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February 13th, 2008

Mr Splashy Pants does Valentines

Still stuck for a choice for an e-card for your love? Then head on over to Greenpeace and Mr Splashy Pants, who’s singing his heart out to the Minke whale of choice. Add your names to the song and send on some Splashy Love
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February 13th, 2008

Too late to send a Valentine Card

If you’ve forgot to send a Valentine Card, Send a Valentine will allow your to create your own design from some prefixed templates and send an ecard. Although I think they should put a disclaimer on the site stating they are not responsible for any damages caused by the receiver of the ecard is […]

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January 25th, 2008

Bacardi auctions a suitcase on eBay

I got a weird email last night with that as a subject line. My first thought was that it was spam and on reading it, I was not immediately convinced otherwise. A bcc list, not addressed to anyone, little explanations. Looking further I realised that it was associated with Bacardi’s Murmansk Route […]

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January 26th, 2007

Outlook 2007 and HTML emails

If you don’t know already, read this overview of Outlook 07 and how it will impact use of HTML emails. According to that report and the follow up, Outlook is having to switch its renderer from IE to the Word version; there’s more information over at Molly Holzschlag. The posts and comments cover […]

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