Be Excellent To Each Other

http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/94271 ... ion-paper/



Does that mean no more people at little boots shouting incomprehensible syllables at us?

Err. Wow.

That doesn't make a lot of sense, for [NDA] reasons.

Disclose! Disclose!

The N part of the NDA says no.

Is this to fill the gap caused by the demise of londonpaper?

oh good, because there aren't enough people stood around the entrances to tube stations as it is.

Oh OK then - A certain software company has been working flat-out for the last 6 months to provide them with a contactless card based payment system (Oyster card or a specific card for the paper), with portable terminals for the vendors.

It was delivered last month and is up and running, you may have noticed, so it just seems a bit mental to waste all that money developing a system and then make the paper free. They must be *desperately* down on circulation.

[please don't quote this, I might decide to delete it]

Note to self: If kalmar is captured, he will compromise the operation with minimal torture.

I'll leave the KGB jokes to others.

Quick! Get the non-energy efficient lightbulb!

Noo! I will give you the plans to the 100% efficient electric car! Anything but the harsh light of a 100 watt bayonet! JUST THINK OF THE WASTED ELECTRICITY!!!

Really ( I bet that'll mean they stop giving out umbrellas when it rains and goodie bags on random days. I was once saved by a rainstorm by one of them umbrellas, I was.

The London Lite is going, leaving the Standard the only free evening paper in London (The London Paper closed a month ago).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/oc ... newspapers

The Metro's still covering every flat surface of the Underground system in the evenings, though, so is in effect a second evening newspaper.