Business Finance

There is a demographic of people who have felt the full extent of the turbulent economic patch that has been the last 18 months; small business owners have been kicked squarely in the dangly bits. Due to what has been profiled in the media as outright greed, banks have brought the borrowing and lending nature of business finance to its knees and as we all know, it takes money to make money!

Product Design

Is there a difference between product design and invention? When looking at the most significant inventions of all time from the abacus to Aspirin, they all served a purpose that was clearly identifiable from pure commercialism. Perhaps the difference between product design and invention in its purest form could be attributed to this factor.

If we look at the most notable inventions post 1960 they have mostly been born from commercial interests. Advances in medical technology are mostly controlled by funding from pharmaceutical companies, engineering advances are based around delivering return on investment and technological advances are motivated by delivering dividends to share holders.

Web design might seem like a relatively safe occupation, sitting around tapping away at your keyboard with the biggest risk being repetative strain disorder from playing with your… mouse too much,  however recent research by the FFG team has unveiled a darker side to web design. After a comprehensive survey of the web design essex crew, we compiled a list of the top three dangers facing web design.

Shabbally Shoopie! Welcome once again to another instalment of FFG fantrabulicious clap trap. We are really short of stuff to write about at the moment so we thought we would raid the wastepaper baskets for scrapped brainstorms and failed pilots. We found one failed pilot, his name is Trevor and he dropped out of pilot school 6 months ago, ba-boom cha. Word play, it is the way of the future.

Comic books have been flooding back into mainstream culture in a massive way over the last decade. They have made a film adaptation of every conceivable super hero and they are running out. We here at the FFG have decided to slice together a list for potential film producers to cherry pick from.

Not that we here at the FFG are nes to shy away from the big issues, but we identified this as the perfect opportunity to have a pop at rich toffs and self righteous protestors in one go. Additionally we find the entire concept hillarious. Red-clad rich people on horseback having fist fights with grimy eco-warriors wearing T-shirts that sport slogans such as ‘Meat ‘s Merder, Bra!’ – over how a fox or rabbit gets to die. We really have a severe lack of conflict in this country.

Google’s Burning, Google’s Burning

Recently internet marketing professionals have been reporting strange results thrown back by the search engine giant Google. The search results for Google seem to have been turned on their head slightly over the last week and we at the FFG think we have discovered why.

It was reported today that the Google head offices in London actually caught fire and had to be evacuated. The fire is believed to have been started on the roof due to some barbeque equipment that operates up there, however this is still unconfirmed and other theories include that a group of techies spontaneously combusted due to being unable to break wind in Google offices.

Twitter group cuases stir and marrys NHS…

It has recently been brought to the attention of the FFG team that there is a campaign running on twitter, #welovetheNHS  which is filled with people declaring their love for the British National Health Service. We here at the FFG are strong supporters of the NHS however we would never say that we ‘love’ the NHS.

We are still not unsure how that actually works. The NHS is a bureaucratic leviathan providing health care to an entire country of 72 million people and what if we did love the NHS and the NHS loved us and we wanted to get married someday…

Welcome to the future – welcome to FaceFeed.

Forget the ‘Battle of the Browsers’ and the search war, the real cyber-blood is being spilt in the realms of social media. As Facebook begins to monetorise and Twitter gets abducted by aliens a new plot twist has developed in the social media saga.

It has been announced that Facebook has just acquired FriendFeed. For those of you who have recently been abducted by aliens, are on lock down translating rap lyrics or evaluating the latest in canine masturbatory aids, the FFG have done some research into FriendFeed.

I had a dream. Spoons… that was my dream, just spoons. – Dr King

There are so many troubles in the world that seem so unnecessary. The next time someone gives you a dirty look or bumps you in the street, forget retribution just grab them from behind and start spooning you until they submit to the sweet, warm spoonyness.

Spooning is always taken out of context as some lazy sexual position, but a good old plutonic spoon is one of the best things ever. There is nothing like spending a hungover Sunday morning on the sofa or in bed, spooning like you’ve never spooned before.