By Rassam Fakour-Zaker Know Your Money Editor Just because world is on the verge of a horribly messy economic apocalypse doesn’t mean we can’t have fun, right? Right. However, we all know that expenditure on leisure is one of the first casualties of a recession; therefore, financially prudent entertainment is the best option. That’s where [...]
By Rassam Fakour-Zaker Know Your Money Editor If you’re anything like me then every year you read the highly-excitable previews of the forthcoming major movies and feel idealistic seeds of childlike anticipation forming. Around this time last year I, like many, was considering the cinematic wonders that lay before me like an eager child on [...]
If you thought 2008 was a big year for video games then check out a few of next year’s biggest titles… (All release dates as listed on Amazon.) 1. Killzone 2 Format: PlayStation 3 Release date: 1st Feb (US) / 26th Feb (UK) Though the over-hyped PS2 original was something of a let down, the [...]
By Rassam Fakour-Zaker Know Your Money Editor Christmas traditionally brings us many things: socks and other tired gift clichés, a few hundred tons of wasted food, bulging credit card debts, crap songs, overflowing landfill sites, cirrhosis of the liver and, more relevantly, Hollywood’s annual attempts at making a few yuletide bucks. As you may guess [...]
By Rassam Fakour-Zaker Know Your Money Editor Do you want your child to grow up to be a well-adjusted, emotionally-secure, happy, considerate, compassionate, principled, free-thinking, decent person? If the answer is an emphatic “NO”, then here are a few gift ideas for the coming holiday season… Kid’s Pimp Costume Does your son seem like a [...]
McDonald’s, the world’s largest food chain, is a staggering company. The figures speak for themselves: over 26,500 outlets in 119 countries serving around 39 million people every day and annual revenues of over $23 billion. But this success has not come without its fair share of criticism and controversy. Serious critisicm of the company has [...]
By Rassam Fakour-Zaker Know Your Money Editor Those crafty marketing executives know exactly what makes us tick: they take a picture of whichever ‘celebrity’ tosspot they think is currently ‘hot’ and slap it onto the advert for whatever overpriced piece of crap they’re trying to sell and like lobotomised, star-struck automatons we scurry along to [...]
By Rassam Fakour-Zaker Know Your Money Editor What can we say about the Nintendo Wii? Innovative? Absolutely. Revolutionary? Probably. Commercially successful? Definitely. Record-breaking? Certainly. Home to some of the most pointless videogames ever? Yup. It seems every games developer wants a piece of the Wii pie; and why not? You don’t need imagination, vision, intelligence, [...]
10. $1,500 (£855). Headphones: Made by headphone pioneers Ultrasone, and constructed using one the finest and strangest sounding materials (like, what is Ethiopian hair sheep leather anyway?). Using super-awesome S-Logic sound technology, you’re sure to be immersed in a crazy world of high tech sound, or feel ripped off, especially as you’ll then have to [...]
