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Movie: Helvetica
Helvetica is a 1h21min documentary that everybody who appreciates design and type will love.
…makes Times New Roman look like Wingdings…
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Happy Holidays from Duvet-Dayz.com
We would like to thank all our readers for their support and their feedback.
Best wishes and safe, happy holidays!
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Quote of the day: Iraq
I hate Iraq. I wish we had never gone to the place… Winston Churchill, 1926
Video: Did you know 2.0
This is the official update to the original “Shift Happens” video from Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod with new and updated statistics….
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Quote of the day: Life
I‘ve been around quite a bit and seen people from many walks of life. There have been good times and not so good ones, but when I could and saw fit I’ve always tried to give back and helped others. And they have been taking freely when things were going well but left me for [...]
UK: What went wrong with the Civil Service
From a letter to the Daily Telegraph responding to the article “Why is the Civil Service a laughing stock?” by Philip Johnston
Sir – After a career of nearly 43 years in Westminster, I can tell Philip Johnston what has gone wrong with the Civil Service.
When I joined, it was a monolithic organisation, staffed by people who cared more for public service than for money, recruited with decent qualifications from an education system that worked, promoted in part by competitive examination, untainted by political bias and undiluted by endless useless management consultants.
Since then, the politicians have destroyed its public-service ethos by transferring so many to profit-making bodies, undermined its career structure by the wholesale importation of “here today, gone tomorrow” interlopers, forced party-political considerations to replace national ones and outsourced vital functions to private companies whose costs are exceeded only by their incompetence…
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