Medieval Help Desk (movie)

New technologies have always presented challenges to users. Here's a YouTube sketch of medieval help desk support for one of those new fangled 'books'.

iPhone keyboard operation - interesting Apple tutorial

The non-physical keys of the Apple iPhone offer fantastic advantages of standard phone keys, but some think this may be the greatest weak point of the device. The early reviews do suggest it will take users several days to adjust, but in the end this should not be an issue.

This Apple iPhone keyboard tutorial is worth looking at to get a feel of the iPhone and understand the different software mechanisms to make text entry accurate, e.g. anticipating specific mis-hit errors and changing the key target area according to predictive lookup of words.

Artist doodling (movie)

Intriguing YouTube movie of apparently aimless doodling on a wall.

Maybe it says something about the value of micro and macro level views. Watch it to the end (3 min)!

Amazing Photosynth demo

This is an amazing TED Conference presentation of "Photosynth" technology that enables the user to fly through images and information on the Web. Quite breathtaking, but hard to describe so just watch it.



[thanks to David C. for this]

New (dog-related) Apple iPhone ad (video)

You've probably see the Apple iPhone ads - in a class of their own.
Here's a new one that shows how the iPhone can stream YouTube videos.

Billy Connolly on Retirement...

You gotta love him...

What do retired people do all day?

Working people frequently ask retired people what they do to make their days interesting. Well for example, the other day I went into town and went into a shop. I was only in there for about 5 minutes, when I came out there was a cop writing out a parking ticket. I went up to him and said, "Come on man, how about giving a senior citizen a f****** break?" He ignored me and continued writing the ticket. I called him a Nazi turd. He glared at me and started writing another ticket for having worn tires. So I called him a shithead. He finished the second ticket and put it on the windshield with the first. Then he started writing a third ticket. This went on for about 20 minutes. The more I abused him, the more tickets he wrote. Personally, I didn't care. I came into town by bus. I try to have a little fun each day now that I'm retired....... It's important at my age......

[thanks to Rose for this!]

Aiko fetching (movie) - a cat doing dog-type tricks

This is Aiko doing her best trick - playing fetch.
She'll do this quite a number of times before she gets tired.
The mice are her favorite playthings which require regular replacement as they become lost or fall apart (can be bought in '9-packs' from the Murphy Brothers)
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