Naked story-telling evenings prove a hit

[Thanks to Lou]

Naked story-telling evenings prove a hit in the UK - that's one way to spice up Book Club!, article.

Great idea.

Except their ban on ereader devices. What difference would it make to the story whether it's read from paper or a Kindle? Hmm, maybe they need an open book to hide their boobs; I hope not.     :-)

Ya think??

I just heard this statement in a video about Chinese web addicts:

"Our studies show that people who spend more than six hours a day, outside of work or study, on the web have bigger risk of becoming addicts." 

Ya think?! That's like saying that people who regularly play ball on the highway have a bigger risk of being hit by a car, or that people who smoke more than two joints daily have a higher risk of becoming addicts.
Just for one thing, why would you spend six hours of your personal time on anything if it did not give you some emotional balm, the first thing needed for something to become an addiction.

Yes Sir, I can boogie

I find this ad wonderfully funny. And in such an understated way. There's nothing overtly wild or funny about either the actions or the actor, yet in a certain quiet way it's just dang funny.
Oh: just his seventies-beard. And the very slight smile and his eyes hint of great amusement. Big without being noisy, my favorite style.





(Ach, I hope this is not one of those that are limited to certain countries.)

What is Beauty?

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you foolishly ignore beauty, you'll soon find ourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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I find these great. Especially the last half of the Emerson one, I think those are about as profound as any human has uttered. 

AMC movie theater calls “federal agents” to arrest a Google Glass user

AMC movie theater calls “federal agents” to arrest a Google Glass user, article.

From TidBITS's comments:
An Ohio network engineer wore his Google Glass (turned off) in a movie because he has prescription lenses in them. An hour into the movie, he was pulled from his seat by the FBI at the behest of the “Movie Association” (the MPAA, in all likelihood) and questioned for over three hours. Once the agents downloaded and viewed the contents of the Glass (as he had been asking them to do), they agreed he had done nothing wrong, after which the MPAA guy gave him a pat on the head and four free movie passes.
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From the article (which is has the server buckling under the traffic):
What followed was over an hour of the “feds” telling me I am not under arrest, and that this is a “voluntary interview”, but if I choose not to cooperate bad things may happen to me (is it legal for authorities to threaten people like that?). I kept telling them that Glass has a USB port and not only did I allow them, I actually insist they connect to it and see that there was nothing but personal photos with my wife and my dog on it. I also insisted they look at my phone too and clear things out, but they wanted to talk first. They wanted to know who I am, where I live, where I work, how much I’m making, how many computers I have at home, why am I recording the movie, who am I going to give the recording to, why don’t I just give up the guy up the chain, ’cause they are not interested in me. Over and over and over again.
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Paintings, animated

Here is a video with classical paintings, subtly animated. Note, though it is "only" paintings, there is quite liberal amounts of violence and especially nudity. You have been warned.
(This by the way, if anybody should still believe otherwise, proves that nudity and violence was not invented by television! Humans have always enjoyed a good spoonful of both in their cultural diet.)

January Darkness

(Click to see texture.)
Kindle Fire HDX camera, dull light. Photoshop tweak. 

Was a bit under the weather today, very low-energy, so I spend most of the day in bed, reading, trying to rest, etc. I tried this camera app I got for free on my Kindle Fire. And it quickly turned up (I had never intended to use the camera in the KF, so I never thought about it) that it only has a forwards camera... And the room was very dark.

And since the sensor in the KF HDX is about a quarter of the size of a müsli flake (it's only meant for chat), the picture got very dark and grainy. I thought that was fitting, so I turned it up in Photoshop, and got this cool, almost electric grain effect (most visible in the full sized image). And a dark picture. Hey, we should embrace that sometimes.

How Our World Would Look If You Were A Bird

Photo page.
Mexico City, really? Woa.

3-D Printed Car Is as Strong as Steel, Half the Weight

3-D Printed Car Is as Strong as Steel, Half the Weight, and Nearing Production, article.

This is so excellent. I keep hearing about new things that 3D printing can do better. One example is that areas which has to be made in many parts with traditional methods, can be printed in one part with 3D printing, making it cheaper, lighter, and stronger.
Another is that you can print in strengthening structures (ribs and such) directly in the material.

Sign in, and again and again and again

In recent days, every time I come back to one of my Blogger blogs, I have to sign in. Even if it's just ten minutes since I was there.
It didn't used to be like this, does anybody have any idea why this changed, or how to handle it?

Lay Lady Lay

Repost: three awesome versions of Lay Lady Lay.


I am "rediscovering" much of my old music, thanks to my new AudioEngine D3.
Unbelievable that such a tiny thing can make such a difference. I didn't think my desktop Harman Kardon SoundSticks could sound any better. (Unlike the D3, those are unbelievably cheap, best buy I ever made.)

Meg Lee Chin: Swallowing You

While we're at the punk'y end...



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Promoted before, but it's still my fave of Meg's: Heavy Scene. (And I still can't find a satisfactory version of it on blueboobs, what's up whiddat?)