Saturday - November 26, 2005Beer goggles explainedPresumably having been stung by the phenomenon of
going to bed with an apparently gorgeous beauty only to wake up with Maureen
from the typing pool, a group of scientists have come up with a mathematical
formula to explain the euphemistically named ‘beer goggles’ effect.
Interestingly, the research was funded by a major contact lens manufacturer and
found that poor eyesight in a dimly lit room had roughly the same effect as four
pints of lager—a fact the sponsors would presumably like to exploit in an
effort to sell more contact lenses (I can't wait to see the TV commercials for
that one!).
Those crazy scientists really crack me up.
;-)
Tuesday - November 15, 2005Buy Nothing DayDid you know that November 26th (that's a week on
Saturday) is officially Buy Nothing Day? The idea is to raise awareness
of the environmental and ethical consequences of consumerism, and to reacquaint
people with the joys of frugal living. Sounds like a good excuse for not
Christmas shopping to me…
:-)
Tuesday - November 15, 2005Eat, Sleep, Work, Consume, DieCall me an old hippie, philistine or romantic,
but I do genuinely think that technology is changing our view of the world, and
not for the better. By making everything so hyper-efficient (at least, when it
all works, otherwise it takes ten times longer to sort out…), there
precious little time left to sit around reflecting on things, or to enjoy the
sheer simple pleasure of existence and all that it brings. This is described
rather well in Tony Long's article for Wired News, which has
the rather apt title of Eat, Sleep,
Work, Consume, Die.
Kinda sums it up, don't you
think?
Thursday - May 26, 2005The ‘private sanitary sanctuary’It's official: the world has finally gone
completely mad. A UK company is now offering a private in-car toilet, which consists of an
inflatable bubble—powered by the car's cigarette lighter socket, of
course—enclosing a portable chemical loo. To prove the device's
effectiveness, they actually drove for seven days from the North of Scotland to
Italy without getting out of the
car!
The device is understandably popular with
families who have young children, and those who have medical conditions such as
bladder weakness, although you'll need to have an SUV or estate car to take
advantage of it due to the size of the bubble—or ‘private sanitary
sanctuary’, as they are calling
it.
This is even worse than having instructions printed on the side of toothpick packets, or warnings that packets of nuts may include traces of nuts… The world has indeed gone verifiably insane. |
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