Through a heinous misappropriation of diary resources, I am unable to attend the Minibar meet up this evening in Shoreditch to hear the pre-announcement of the Channel 4, £50m 4IP fund.
I’m really rather upset about it, not the free beer or the lure of Friday night Shoreditch when I know I should be going home to see my heavily pregnant wife asleep in front of Big Brother. But because I want to hear about it FIRST.
It’s a great initiative, though I may have to convince the holders of the booty that Barcelona is in fact a UK Regional Development Agency with a native dialect that needs preserving.
To drown my sorrows I have turned to looking at pictures of Google’s toilet.
It has buttons enabling oscillating, and both rear and front cleansing, Techcrunch, bastion of start-up excretion says so:
Some chairophiles at the Design Academy in Eindhoven have designed an RFID-control-led chair, which if you commute in London and have an Oyster card is kind of like having the ticket barriers at the Tube Stations follow you to work.
Whilst I applaud the creativity, this frightens me, particulary the scene with the chairs moving en masse (nice special effect that!) and the guy with the lecturn addressing a bunch of empty seats.
Also the way the chairs wriggle when you activate them, like they’re a bit frisky. Yikes! I feel a B-Movie coming on, Revenge of the Frisky Library Chairs or The Chair From Planet Lust.
Virtual staring has a price tag of $20m making the founders of ugly site or not?.. very rich.
“HotOrNot makes money from advertising, virtual flowers and a premium fee when users want to connect. They experimented briefly with a free model, but abandoned it last September in the face of overwhelming spam. Their annual revenue is estimated to be around $5 million, with $2 million in profit. According to Comscore, the site has around 5 million monthly unique visitors and 200 million page views.”
Music, films, naked people are all free online, but the algorithm called love still has a price.
Get thee to the BBC iPlayer and watch Wonderland: Virtual Adultery and Cyberspace Love. It seems love really is just a matter of cup size and scimitar length.
‘Lee thinks there’s something wrong in his marriage. His wife Carolyn won’t let him in the bedroom - always a bad sign, I think - and he has to sleep in the living room. He’s right, Carolyn is having an affair. And, frankly, poor Lee doesn’t stand a chance. The new guy, Eliot, is everything Lee isn’t: a tall, chiselled hunk, with a no-nonsense attitude, who wears just a pair of jeans, a sword and a couple of Uzis. Lee tells Carolyn he feels like Forrest Gump. Possibly not the best way to go about winning her back.
Carolyn and Eliot were immediately attracted to each other. She liked his muscles and weapons; he liked her skimpy outfits and enormous boobs. They hung out, went to romantic restaurants, got jiggy. Lee and the kids wait miserably for Mom to come back.’
Mix one erudite geek with a Wii, a laptop, a suburban home, a baseball cap, shake and pour into some infrared customized safety glasses and… well, I don’t want to spoil it for you.
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