The Day the Nike Sneaker Talked to the iPod . . .

The Nike-iPod project is just more evidence of the advance of ubicomp.

Two Things

First Thing: Welcome to my first visitor from Denmark.
Second Thing: I will not be posting for a while due to being out of town for 4 weeks. bbl, as they say :-)

What could be better than beans on toast?

Beans on Toast pop tarts, of course! Brought to you by your friends at Heinz - because they were never satisfied with just 57 varieties.

It's All About Moderation

Wine, Coffee, Exercise - it's all good :-)

The Flush of the Future

It's bad enough when one's doctor informs one that one is overweight or in some way diseased. The British have decided to add insult to injury by passing that job off to one's toilet. The toilet can then take the liberty of informing your supermarket what foods they should sell to you to correct the problem(s). You think I'm joking, don't you? I'm not. I'm totally serious. The Twyford VIP not only analyzes waste to determine a person's health, but it can be adjusted (much like a car seat) using either push buttons or voice recognition. Again, you think I'm joking, don't you? I'm not.

As one commentator put it: "Physical output becomes digital input in this transformation of waste into metadata. Sensors are coming to a loo near you. And this strange business of sensory cyberspace imports has just begun. We can hardly imagine all the weird and wonderful possibilities." Morville, Peter. Ambient Functionality (Sebastopol, CA: O'Rielly, 2005), 90.

Corn Too I'm Afraid

Not only may we lose bananas, corn is in trouble also.

US DARPA Patents Human Cannonball Machine

Again: No, really.

Bananas Are An Endagered Species

No, really.

8000 MPG

Using about $4,000, man invents car capable of getting 8,000 miles to the gallon, thereby breaking his earlier, measly record of 6,603 miles per gallon.

Planetary Rash

What worse than having one big red spot? Having two, of course.