Totally worth buying a pair of these, just to answer the phone and with your fingers. Right ?

hi-Call is a Bluetooth glove that allows you to talk through your hand.

The left glove has a speaker and a microphone sewed into thumb and pinkie, in order to speak to the phone, while protecting from cold.

A pair of warm gloves, perfect for every sport, from skiing to running, with hi-Call you can control the touch screen of your smartphone thanks to the capacitive technology.

I declare that we have reached peak evolution. Either that or Idiocracy is actually an accurate prediction of the future.

Psst: I’d like an adult sized version. Just let me know on the quiet like …….

Modern War Gear Solid - The Complete Saga (HD) - YouTube.

Ten years after Harry Potter finishes …..

Fan fiction. It’s very English and culturally specific but enjoyed the whole thing nonetheless. Adult themes and ideas contained herein. Not rude but naughty.

This series is simply fantastic. Must watch.

TRUE SKIN from H1.

Absolutely fascinated why “x” is the unknown. It’s comes from Arabic via Spanish.

Less then four minutes.

In his book “Being Geek”, Michael Lopp says:

The Web connects us, but the medium also filters out the aspects of humanity that make us interesting and knowable. You're not going to know me until you see that I talk with my hands. I'm not going to know you until I realize that when you're really thinking about a thing, you can't look anyone in the eyes, because it distracts you.

You have a job to do and it’s doesn’t involve holding hands and receiving hugs on a daily basis. In my experience that sort of thinking is usually propagated by managers/leaders who don’t understand what they are doing. It acts as a screen to replace decision making.

“Lets have a meeting” is like saying lets have hugs - it’s productivity death.

Being Geek - Michael Lopp

NERD JOKE!!

There is this farmer who is having problems with his chickens. All of the sudden, they are all getting very sick and he doesn’t know what is wrong with them. After trying all conventional means, he calls a biologist, a chemist, and a physicist to see if they can figure out what is wrong. So the biologist looks at the chickens, examines them a bit, and says he has no clue what could be wrong with them. Then the chemist takes some tests and makes some measurements, but he can’t come to any conclusions either. So the physicist tries. He stands there and looks at the chickens for a long time without touching them or anything. Then all of the sudden he starts scribbling away in a notebook. Finally, after several gruesome calculations, he exclaims, ‘I’ve got it! But it only works for spherical chickens in a vacuum.’

via Physics Jokes and Anecdotes.

It’s always fun to watch young people get excited about stuff. As someone who is a bit older and wiser, it’s harder to get this energised because I know how hard work is needed to make these dreams happen. Not that hard work is bad but that many dreams founder on the shore of repetition, testing, trial, process and ITIL compliant processes using TOGAF management.

Open ideas are nice. Can I have open processes too ?

"RADICAL OPENNESS" - for TEDGlobal 2012 by @Jason_Silva from Jason Silva on Vimeo.

There is a younger version of myself hanging on every single idea in this demonstration. I love technology!

I wish I was this imaginative. Bet my wife does too.

On Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012, I told my girlfriend to meet me at my parent's house for dinner. When she arrived I had stationed my brother to sit her in the back of an open Honda CRV and give her some headphones. He "wanted to play her a song"...

Enjoyed this.

A little time, and little research and I think I’ve found a new category for my Poster Collection on EtherealMind.com.

GRIN

Go full screen, HD is you can. Take a ten minute break with headphones on. Be entertained.

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via RUIN on Vimeo.

This machine is genius. Not only does it open the bottle but it, clears the corkscrew, gathers energy in a weight and then pours the wine. Watch for the double action as the pour occurs so it doesn’t spill.

genius.

Via Boing Boing

A more complete version and description:

I wrote the sign, but different words.

Youtube Video The Power of Words

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There are some disturbing elements to this but it sure tugs at your heart strings.

  via @ianhf

vimeo.com/36370552

Underneath the clothing and glasses is a sex goddess.

Source: unknown - let me know if you have it.

Have you ever completed a task, reached an achievement, or hit that goal and thought “Well, that’s done”.

Is that a sign that the process that you went through to complete the challenge is more fun, more worthy or more valuable than reaching the end ?

That’s what I think, most of the time. Am I weird ?

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The world as Steve Jobs saw it:

When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and you’re life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money.

That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.

Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.

If you move around London, they have these pay toilets around the place. I’m not too sure of their history, but for ten pence you pop inside and have a few moments to yourself. Once you are done, they clean themselves and are ready for use by the next person.

They may not be the best looking architecture in the world but they certainly are practical. As you can see, a void slot on the side to pop some money into, and the usual common sense warnings.

On this particular toilet, there is plaque.

The plaque honours Mr Iris Samuel who officially opened the toilet.

Which begs the question - is this an honour or something less ? If the highlight of my public life was the opening of a toilet, such as this one, would my life have meaning ? Would I truly have lived and achieved something of value ? For service to community I got to open this pay toilet - is that a reward ?

I’m going to keep looking at these toilets and see if any of the others have opening plaques. Who else was honoured ?

Postscript

The national archives has listed here

Portsoken Ward COL/CC/13/01/027 Dec. 1984

Former reference: P.D.141.17

1 paper

Contents: Election address of three of the candidates, viz. Roger Brighton, Alfred Dunitz and Mrs Iris Samuel