Duck Goes Moo!

To help raise money to fight Multiple Sclerosis, a bunch of clowns got naked and made a calendar.

There is a website out there called yearbookyourself.com that allows you to upload a photo of yours and place your face into a cutout of various yearbook photos from earlier times.

Good times.

This just in: Wilford Brimley has just been turned into a fluffy white cat.

See, ducks do go “Moo”.

http://www.sdpb.org/Old_learning/RRYRI/2002/k/k9.htm

Life is a little easier for attractive people.

Think about it, if a stranger smiles at you and they’re attractive, you think, “Oh, they’re nice.”

But if the stranger’s ugly, you’re like, “What do they want? Get away from me weirdo.”

This is a Quirt.

I haven’t been in college for quite some time now, and I am wondering if this is what classes are like now, or even high school. I admit I’d love to take notes on my notebook PC than an actual notebook but I’d think I’d be too tempted to IM, read email, or even Google my way out of not knowing an answer.

During my first college career, at Knox College in the mid 90′s, there wasn’t a Google, or much of an internet. We had a couple of “green screens” on campus, which were basic UNIX terminals where you could check your email or do some MUDing if there wasn’t a line.

It’ll be interesting to see what kinds of devices and internets will be present on college campuses in ten years. Wallet sized super-computers that are controlled by your brainwaves and wirelessly project images into your retina? Probably, or at least I hope as that sounds very cool. Imagine the type of applications that would be around to distract students from classwork and the teachings of their professors. Browsing blogs and websites without moving a muscle, virtual beach-balls that people could virtually smack across the classroom, placing virtual mustaches and googly eyes on the professor.

That’s probably the future of the internet, an interweaving of reality and online content brought about by GPS, “telepathic” computer interfaces, and making the whole computer a portable thing you take with you where ever you go.

Take FaceBook for example. As you walk around campus all your FaceBook friends would have a floating icon above them which you could interface with to send a message or do other actions like invite them to use a FaceBook application with you, like a game of chess. Then a chess board would hover in your field of vision and you could move the pieces by thinking about them. You could choose to share “visualizations” and you could wear and share virtual items like funny hats or virtual pets.

Or, take Google Maps for example. You could do a search for a residence and then the path to the location would appear in the real world for you to follow, with perhaps a giant arrow in the sky pointing to where you need to go.

Think this is far off, think again. It might not even be ten years.

Brother Industries is getting close to having a feasible device for direct retina projection that can mount on a pair of glasses:

Mind-reading technology is getting better all the time too:

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/sep2000/nf20000913_892.htm

And as always computers are getting smaller and faster and the internet is getting more and more ubiquitous.

I think the future will be very cool and very distracting.

Dang, this video got taken down, but you can still view it here:

VIEW IT HERE