The supermarket of the future? I'm not even sure where to begin with how stupid some of that stuff is. How is using your mobile to self scan barcodes any easier than letting people use purpose made barcode scanners? I know some supermarkets tried that a while back and did it revolutionize shopping? Nope. God help you if your battery dies before you get to the checkout....

If they are using RFID tags on food, why not just tag everything so that you're whole trolley is totaled up as you walk through the till?

I do like the wine tasting idea however.

Labels: Gadgets

Student writes nothing but "f*ck off" in an English exam paper and gets given a mark of 7.5%.

Labels: News

Well I found it funny (and rather catchy) - pull your pants up.



Update: can't... get... song.. out of... head!

Labels: Amusing, Animation, Music

Another of those "How did they get funding for that?" fairly pointless studies - women prefer men with stubble.

Labels: Science

As usual it seems the press are following every little thing old Amy Winehouse does and are reporting her (apparent) attempt to punch a fan. What they seem to be ignoring is that she sounded sh*t and looked orange! What's up with that?

Labels: News

Not having a telly means I've not seen it but this comercial is apparently causing a fuss. Or it was until it was pulled.

Meh, fuss about nothing. I did like one of the comments on the BBC page:

"Seeing same sex kissing is stomach-churning to most people who are not homosexual."

Yes, ask any random man what they think about seeing two women kissing and stomach-churning is going to be what they say (whilst hiding their crotch with a cushion)....

Labels: News

A team from the UK is hoping to beat the land speed record for a steam powered car. Rather them than me...

Labels: Gadgets

Why bother collecting lego sets when you can just build stuff on your PC. Going to give this a proper run in a bit.

This also reminds me, wonder when this is out.

Update: Lego, it's everywhere I look today. Everything you ever wanted to know about Lego and more.

Labels: Computers, Internet, Timewaste

I thought this was going to be a bit of a dull article when I started reading but it was actually quite interesting and gave me new knowledge on bananas. 1000 varieties, we eat a less tasty sort than folk of old and it could be set to become a rare luxury. Never new any of that.

Labels: Interesting

Conspiracy Con 2008. If you are not paranoid before you go, you will be after you leave.

Slightly more odd - erotic falconry. I just like it for the photoshopped bird porn.

Labels: Weird

Ah great - my bills are going up again then. Might be the incentive I need to stop spending so long in the shower in the morning (very bad habit) as it's one of my big energy usages.

On top of that I had some people around to value my flat last week. Now it could mean nothing and be just what the landlord says it was - him wanting to re-mortgage the place. Or I could be in for a rent increase. Or be out on the street as he gets cold feet in the housing market and bails on his investment.

How could he do that to me? I'm too lazy to move!

Labels: Personal

Spore has been in development (and eagerly anticipated) for quite a while now. A strange mix of various types of games, it's going to appeal to a lot of people. The idea that you can design a species from basic DNA and watch it progress all the way up to being a galactic civilization which interacts with tens of thousands of other player created species has got to make it popular. Assuming they do it right of course. It could just be a massive disappointment much in the way the novelty of having my own creature to train in Black and White wore off when I found he wasn't really that intelligent. You'd spend ages slapping the thing around and making you watch as you threw fireballs and he'd forget everything you'd taught him 5 minutes later.

If you'd like a taster of Spore tho, check out the creature creator demo.

Labels: Computers, Games

It's interesting to see how the high oil prices are affecting things. It's making some drive less and buy a lot more fuel efficient cars. There have been lots of protests and all the while governments are seem to think the answer is pump more oil or drill for more in your own backyard.

If prices keep going up, I wonder what more is to come?

Labels: Environmental

Seems like there is a mystery afoot up in Canada. Or should that be feet?

I'll get my coat.

Labels: Weird

Ok, it's cheesy and I never usual post these but it's a slow day and I like to educate where I can.

10 tips for better sex.

Can't believe they didn't mention the stick of celery and flying helmet one....

Labels: Interesting

I know some people accuse the UK of being a nanny state but at least it's not got this bad yet.

Judge overturns a 12 year old girls grounding.

Labels: News, Weird

A selection of spoof porn movies. Can't decide if Jurassic Pork or The Da Vinci Load makes me chuckle more...

Labels: Amusing

I see loads of green building projects or ideas on my wanders around the internet nowadays but this idea for a floating ecopolis is quite interesting as I don't think it's hard to foresee a day when either overpopulation on rising sea levels force people to live elsewhere. I mean some countries are already coming up with strange ideas for creating more space.

Labels: Environmental

Pirate tax funds pirate album. Nice idea and I've popped along to the website of Mr Suitcase for a look see and I'm downloading the album now. I'll let you know what it's like.

Labels: Internet, Music

For a big company trying to take over the world, Google do try and appear like nice guys. And did I say take over? I meant trying to save the world obviously.

Labels: Internet

I'm doing something I've never done before - I'm watching my calories. It all started last night when I was working my way through a rather large bag of maltesers and Miss C pointed out how many calories that bag contained.

I stared back with a vacant expression.

Seems she expected me to know that 500Kcal was a lot but for someone that has never had a problem with my weight (regardless of what I eat I've stayed 10 stone or under for as long as I can remember) it meant nothing to me. Which is bad, I know.

As you might remember I stared jogging again a few weeks back (still keeping it up - just) and again on the suggestion of Miss C, I stopped eating sugar last week and switched to sweetener. I should have done that a long time ago really seeing as I eat a 500g bag of sugar in about 2 weeks normally.

Yes, I still have teeth (probably cos I stopped eating the golden syrup straight out the tin years ago. And the icing sugar).

Countering the good things I've been doing was the fact that I had two takeaways, a fair bit of alcohol and went to a BBQ this week. So I'm keeping a track of my calorie/fat/salt intake this next week or so as although I may not look fat, I'm certainly not highly toned and god knows what's going on inside....

Labels: Personal

Don't forget that it's only a few days to the release of Firefox 3. Seems to be full of some nice new features. Tis quite sad really but now that my life at work revolves around installing/fixing/distributing/taking apart software, I'm quite excited about this.

I'll get my coat....

Labels: Internet

Could you live with 100 things?

Labels: Interesting

New energy and water saving washing machine. I'm not sure about lugging 20Kg of cleaning chips home from the supermarket or what you do with them after tho. Tis one step closer to the old sonic shower....

Nice to see the UK is finally making an effort with recycling here rather than shipping stuff to other countries. Why it takes so long is beyond me considering the plant cost £13 million, recycled plastic is worth £800 a tonne and we dump 1.2 million tonnes of (albeit mixed) plastic a year. Seems plenty of potential for profit there....

Less bright is the destruction of Africa and whole countries.

Labels: Environmental

I have to admit that I do like a bit of Statham. His films may often border on the downright daft but they are usually pretty entertaining. Transporter 3 is out soon (I just had a hunt around online for the second in the series to watch) and so is Death Race.

Considering how weird the original was, that could be a laugh.

The film I'm especially looking forward to tho is Crank 2. Crank was just a MANIC film. Quite how you manage to make a sequel given how the first ended is beyond me.....

Labels: Film

Maybe more objects should fight back when subjected to random acts of vandalism.

Ouch.

Labels: Stupid

I've often read about the recent plight of bees but this article does a good job of going into some detail. Plus I never knew bees were trucked around to help pollinate different crops...

On the animal theme, seems New Zealand are well on the way to stopping farmyard animals farting. Sounds like a bit of a silly story but when you realize how much that methane contributes to a countries greenhouse emissions, it's quite a big step.

Labels: Environmental

Very pretty and quite addictive - 6 Differences.

(link via The Presurfer)

Labels: Games, Timewaste

A vagina shaped bicycle (ooh, I'm gonna regret using that word when I next look at my webstats). NSFW obviously.

I'm trying to think of something else to say but really, I got nothing.

Labels: Weird

See if you could be an officer in the Swedish army with this online test. Not for those with short attention spans (like me)....

Labels: Timewaste

It's nice to know that in the modern world of today, if you go bonkers at work your workmates won't try and calm you down but instead video your breakdown from various angles.

And then taser your arse.

Labels: Video, Weird

Maybe one day I will have hair again.....

Labels: News, Science

Interesting use of photos and animation.

Plantage

Labels: Animation

So it's not hard to find a picture like this one of a woman in skimpy underwear on the internet (so obviously NSFW) but what is surprising is that it's not real. Fully computer generated (apparently).

Impressive. Some other very realistic work on that site if you happened to check it out.

Labels: Arty

Homeless woman hide in closet for a year.

Now for me, the worst thing would be trying to think back over everything I'd done that last year to come up with which was most embarrassing....

Labels: News, Weird

A song that'll get you in trouble with ladies. NSFW

Labels: Amusing, Music, Video

It's interesting how quickly things change sometimes. The growing tide of 'green awareness' has done little more than change peoples attitudes enough to slightly slow our over consumption and environmental destruction. Instead chuck in stupidly high oil prices which help to cause an economic slowdown and high food prices and all of a sudden lifestyles are changing. More out of an interest in saving money than living a sustainable life but it's the same finishing point. This article does a reasonable job of summing things up.

Considering people have been warning about this sort of thing (peak oil and the like) for a years it's interesting to watch it actually going on. And happen so fast. Not that I'm saying we have hit peak oil but the symptoms are similar.

Totally different topic - no pressure on this couple. He's 100, she's 80 and neither have seen a member of the opposite sex in decades! And now they have to breed like bunnies.

Labels: Environmental