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The Loch Ness monster appears in Europcar’s food map

November 7, 2013 by Andrew Leave a Comment

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Car hire company Europcar have produced this animated food map of the United Kingdom. Viewers start at the top by John O’Groats and the Castle of Mey and can actually drive down the page, using their mouse wheel, until they get to Land’s End.

Along the way the car passes through or near to places like Stonehenge, the Cheddar Gorge, York Minster and Hadrian’s Wall. It’s really a tour of food, though, showing places like the Black Isle Brewery, Moffat Toffee Shop, Bradely’s Bakery, Tewkesbury Mustard, Cox & Baloney and the Town Mill Bakery.

It’s nice to see so much history on the map.

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You can find the interactive map of Britain’s Best Bites here.

Did you go for a ride? Any highlights? What’s missing? No haggis? No Blackpool Rock?

Stunning Halloween visuals from Aer Lingus

October 31, 2013 by Andrew Leave a Comment

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We’ll see a lot of Halloween marketing today. I don’t think this is a bad thing. It adds to the spirit and it is always good to see all sorts of companies jumping onto a pagan festival and giving it a boost.

A colleague shared this image from Aer Lingus and I just have to share. It reminded me that the Irish airline also flies to the States too.

Can Facebook help you stop being lonely?

June 13, 2011 by Andrew Leave a Comment

Nivea is 100 years old this year. It was bounded back in 1882 by Carl Paul Beiersdorf. It started in Poland and was then bought by German investors. It’s probably actually older than 100 years as the official birthday (March 28th) is the date when Nivea filed a patent on the production of medical plasters – in reality Carl Beiersdorf would have had to have spent time inventing them before the patent could be filed.

It was as early as 1900 when the company filed a patent application of Eucerit. Eucerit is an emulsifying agent that would later become the base for NIVEA Creme.

It seems unlikely anyone would suggest Nivea is a company stuck in the past. For their 100 year birthday they’re looking a modern trends such as social networking. It might be easy for a skincare company to come out against Facebook, to rubbish it, to encourage people to get offline, go out and network – actually, that reminds me of so many shampoo ads. The good news is that Nivea is being far more sensible than that.

In this ad video, Nivea accept that there are some research papers which allude to lonely people being more likely to use Facebook… but then they challenge whether that means Facebook makes you lonely. They have Professor Geoffrey Beattie, the Head of School of Psycholigical Science at the University of Manchester share his thoughts and encourage further participation on Nivea’s own Facebook page.

 

 

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What do you think? Does Facebook make you lonely?

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