August is an odd month, there’s nothing on TV and most can slack off in the quietest month of the year. Not agency land though. Mostly you work doubly hard to cover other people on holiday and spend your own break recovering. Being a one man department, it means doing as much as you can…

If you’re my age and you live in the UK, you’ve probably laughed at Paul Calf and his disdain of ‘lazy students’. But the picture of layabout undergraduates isn’t really true anymore, at least according to the The Royal Bank of Sctotland’s ‘student index report’ . Over half of undergraduates will work part time next…

I was reading that they’ve discovered a new techonogy for removable sticky stuff, all thanks to sudying spiders. Reminds me of all the things we’ve learned from copying nature. Like these:

54% of Britons want to live abroad (Institute for Policy Research), but nearly half that do emigrate come home. Maybe some of this is to do with doing before thinking, but doesn’t it show how human desire is a contradictory little monkey? We want what we can’t have and tire of it when we get…

If you do one good thing today, pay it a visit to Give Rob a Job and sign the petition, even better just hire him!  That’s right, no one has given  The Famous Rob Mortimer the planning job he so richly deserves. Rob @ Cynic has lost patience with us all and kindly created the…

…sprinters you could trust. No ‘nutritionists’ in the shadows, no grotesque musculature, just skinny chaps in baggy white outfits (from The Guardian). Still, now they’re getting better at catching cheats, maybe they’re on the way back….

Wannabe Adman’s asking "How can Account Management, Planning and Creative work better together to both develop and sell big communications ideas?" Here’s a fascinating contribution from Life in the Middle. He’s be an interesting client no? My two penneth is largely focused on the interpretation of the brief: "Breaking the question down, i’d say it’s…