We love everything about the artwork of Pulitzer-winning artist Rube Goldberg and his 'invention' cartoons. It is manna to anyone with a creative bent and a sense of curiosity and invention - of looking at things differently.

Sometimes special events, like people, can grow a little tired and stale and are in need a facelift or even a simple refresh from outfits like... well us at FACTOR168. A tweak or two or a full revamp. Not much has suprised or shocked us while doing event refurbishments... that is until we Miss Plastic Hungary went down without warning...

The George Costanza character from ‘Seinfeld’ fame often declared that he worked for imaginary Vandelay Industries. To keep sparking the imagination, another namesake Vandelay Designs declared the FACTOR168 website as a top 40 inspiring design. ‘Not that there is anything wrong with that!’ Thank you Vandelay. Thanks Marina.

I must confess that myself and pretty much all of the FACTOR168 team, with the exception of the inexplicably prudish and our resident Luddite Michael, are great fans of the Virgin brand and the way they go about marketing themselves.

Just in case any of your webstronauts are wondering, if you’d like to put cool little pic next to your comments here on FACTOR168's 'The Muse', it’s so easy it keeps us up at night wondering why everyone is not already doing this. INsanity... or personal preference. But I digress, not so long ago, we updated the site to use the simple and convenient, widely recognized avatar solution that is known as… (cue dramatic drum roll.. and go drum roll)... GRAVATAR!