All your questions answered!

All your questions answered!

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Mozilla Geode

Okay, I am not very good at this jounralism malarky, so this is really just going to end up more a thought-vomit than anything else.  Google 3 beta1 is going to have geocoding built in to, and for us users that cant wait, we can download the new Geode extension for firefox 3.  Now, sadly I couldn't get it to work on my office computer, not sure why, could be a UK thing.

But my main interest comes from how useful this could be.  I recently watched Dave Gormans America Unchained where he found it hard to find local service stations that weren't owned by 'The Man'.  Now, with this on your phone, you could in theory have it show you automatically where all these stations are in your browser rather than having to install a seperate app.  And so, any device with mozilla firefox would be able to track location.

CASE:
Go to a new city for one night, want to know the closest pub, go to beerintheevening.com, straight away it lists the closest pubs to where you are.  No need to tell google maps, or know the postcode for where you are.  Whilst I am sure further uses other then time saving utilities will come from this, I am still quite interested in this now.

Why oh why doesn't it work on my computer!

Fry is on Twitter

Whilst I have always had my reservations surrounding twitter, I do find it interesting, especially how it can be quickly read, so not taking too much of your time up.  No I can bring twitter to those that may not usually be interested.  Mr Stephen Fry is now Twittering, oh yes.

Waterkula

Here's a cool twitter feed to subscribe to if you work in an office.  Every hour it posts a new link for you to remind you to go drink some water.  The link is usually something random and a little bit interesting.

I may have to subscribe.

waterkula

Oldest Lifesaver

Awesome, the oldest lifesaver in the world.  I just want to shake his hand!

The World's Oldest Lifesaver from Brett Clements on Vimeo.

Prius 2010

The new 2010 prius in all it's glory.  Whilst a wave of smug befalls anyone buying such a car, I think it looks really sleek, and would under ordinary circumstances, be tempted to buy one as my new car (replacing the poor deceased Daewoo Matiz, codename "Liono").  So tempted in fact that the other day, at a toyots garage I saw one of the 2003 models, and was tempted to touch (even though it is strictly frowned upon).  Sadly, I have no garage, so the chargin of the electrical aspect of the car, which is the main selling point, would be complicated.

Nevertheless, it is pretty.  But how does it handle, and when will they put in these new solar panels, I am curious about scratching and how to clean them.

Metallica in Rice

This is awesome, the metallica album cover, made using japanese food, there are several others, if only wetherspoons did food like this, my world would be complete.

http://jakeben.blog111.fc2.com/

Live like an egyptian

Okay this may be old news, I am still catching up on some feeds since my holiday a while back.  But imagine living in a pyramid, that's kinda cool (especially for those stargate fans out there).  Then consider it carbon neutral living, now you can feel smug aswell as cool.  Now imagine the lifts going vertical and horizontal so you can get from one corner to the oposite, oh, I am getting excited.  Finally, the cherry on the chicken is that it uses steam (aswell as other methods) to create energy.  A steampunk city, now that is awesome.  Sadly it's sheer size probably means it wont happen, it is after all an entire city of 2.3 square kilometres and has no cars allowed.  Still, a man can dream cant he?

Energy Ball

Oooh, I want a house so I can have one of these.  its called an 'energy ball', and if the fact of owning an energy ball isn't enough for you, it's the first approach at making an attractive small scale wind turbine for residential use.  It uses air, and compressed liquids, and physics stuff.  It looks a little bit modern art, i'd want it to replicate the black iron you get in gardens, and have an added weathervane beneath as they are always useful.