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Dasani Recalled
It goes from bad to worse for Dasani – the newly launched Coca Cola water, which was quickly “revealed” to be purified tap water. It seems that bromate levels are too high, and as a result 500,000 bottles are being recalled. You can see the UK launch of Dasani going down in the marketing text…
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Stuck In A Rut
It’s not often that I pay Janet Street-Porter all that much attention, but in today’s Independent (no direct link since at time of writing I couldn’t get onto the site, and in any case, the article is bound to be for subscibers/payees only) she makes an excellent case for responding to the government’s consultation on…
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What’s My Motivation?
I’m quite enjoying this week’s Book of the Week on Radio 4 – What’s My Motivation by Michael Simkins, detailing his experiences trying to become an actor. Listen to it via the Radio 4 website.
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Thoroughly Modern Millie
This is an odd one. I don’t really like musicals that much. Indeed, I usually go out of my way to avoid them. Real theatre is drama to me. But when I was offered tickets to this show tonight, I immediatly accepted. Why? Well it’s not because I’m an particular fan of the star, Amanda…
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Copy Control – Part 2
As a follow up to my previous entry, I couldn’t help but notice that the Norah Jones CDs available in Fopp are different to the one I bought. They don’t mention Copy Control anywhere on the cover. I did read somewhere on the web when I was fuming before, that EMI only use Copy Control…
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Olympics Via Broadband
According to this press release detailing BBC1’s summer season, the BBC will be streaming the Olympics via broadband as well as on television. They’ve obviously pulled quite a coup off to do this, but I fear that as a Demon customer, I’ll be missing out, since it’s bound to be a very limited service for…
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The Same Letter Over and Over
I’d think that if I was someone reasonably senior in an organisation, and were going to send a letter for publication in a trade magazine, that I might check to see if they were willing to publish it. So if, for example, I worked for Identica, and wanted to comment on the Dasani tap water…
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Guardian: Compact or Not Compact
FT Creative Media has an interview (somewhere here with a subscription) with Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger about the future of The Guardian. A couple of weeks ago, The Guardian came out as not going down the tabloid route. The suggestion is that a mid-sized paper, somewhere between a broadsheet and a tabloid, might be a…
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Drugs in Cycling
Weeks after the death of Marco Pantani, former Cofidis rider Philippe Gaumont has been talking in Le Monde about how easy it is for riders to get away with drug cheating. This really is a big issue in sport at the moment, and it’s worrying how relaxed many of our authorities still are about it.…
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The Da Vinci Code
An enormous bestseller in the US, this was finally published in paperback last week in the UK, and I felt able to pick up a copy for less than four quid in Tesco as a result (I suppose I should write something about supermarkets and their impact on booksales sometime soon, since everyone else is…
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Jennifer Government
If you’re tickled by the prospect that a sportswear company could release a fabulously expensive pair of trainers, but then choose not to market them, until demand reaches fever pitch levels leaving the company to dump thousands of pairs onto the market, thus turning a colossal profit overnight, then this book is for you. Set…
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Yellowface/All The Lovers In The Night
Yellowface by R F Kuang I first came across R F Kuang with last year’s very enjoyable Babel, an alternate history of the British Empire told in a world where magic exists and is controlled by an elite group of individuals. Yellowface is very different, but no less enjoyable. It’s a book about books, and…
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