Kitten Fluff

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DSC_4627,
originally uploaded by junku.

Flickr: The FLICKYS… 6 Days to Go!!! / THEME: Excellence in SETS
The Flickr community is holding its very own Flicky awards.

There are various categories – the oddest of which I have not yet found, although the Self Portraits one was midly disturbing.

I have just cast my vote – a difficult one as several of my contacts were nominated – for Junku and his Incredible Acrobatic Cats. From Japan.

I love B3ta’s new challenge for creative photoshop geeks.

If computer games were real. This one is by Frogdoctor.

Btw you might not see this image if you are not using Firefox as your browser. If you are not, why not? I am now well and truly converted. Especially now that I have my Brushed metal theme.

Podbat has a new Bluggcaster through which you can listen to podcasts at your leisure.

Talking of The Man Who Fell Asleep, I especially like his Tube Gossip captured on 23 July.

1. I saw Nigel Lawson on the Central Line today. He got off at Marble Arch. Surely he can afford a cab?
2. Shireen, are we all bopping to the same beat?
3. You should shave off your goatee… you don’t want to get an uneven tan.
4. I don’t want to hear another sob story about a man with no head.
5. Dilbert is the least funny thing ever.
6. It’s you and me. Just the two of us. Does that make you nervous?
7. Borderline, Crazy for You, American Life, Vogue, Cherish. In that order.
8. Have you got a pen? Or a sword?
9. So, Voldemort is Darth Vader and Dumbledore is Obi Wan Kenobi.
10. Larry? Do you mind if I call you Larry?

The man who fell asleep
My favourite website from a N Londoner is publishing a book with the Friday Project. It is listed on Amazon. More people should do this. Check out Lulu too.

Am I being stupid or was that “flag” on the Blogger bit at the top in the right hand corner not there 2 days ago?

It means you can report this blog if you find any of the content “objectionable”. So much for free speech, huh? you… you… you… American people! Ooohhh !! ;0)

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Men’s mags,
originally uploaded by The Kitten’s Toe.

These are right at my eye level in my work’s newsagents. I am not adverse to sexy ladies, but men’s mags are getting really over the top. There are so many weekly ones now too that are trying to entice the teenage male’s (or lesbian’s) pocketmoney. These are the ones I myself used to buy, however. Back then, they actually had men on the front covers.

Doc Searls declares war on spam blogs – “splogs”, says Rexblog. Shouldn’t it be “blam”?

FINALLY someone has found a use for hamsters. Don’t get me wrong, I love the smelly but soft and strangely tickly creatures, but I always did think when I was little that there must be something useful you could make them do whilst they run around and around and around.

Can’t take it to Glasto though to charge the mobile.

Although, they *would* be useful if you happened to run out of power in the desert. Just wire ‘em up and off you pop!

Give that Peter Ash inventor guy a medal.

Via Engadget.

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taystuho008,
originally uploaded by Fantasyfan.

This cat so unbearably cute I think I might have to take a trip over to Finland and catnap her.

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pipe,
originally uploaded by cortland firefighter.

You do find some erm… interesting shots on Flickr. Nice pipe.

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Tongue,
originally uploaded by beanie poo.

Stunning darling, stunning.

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i *HEART* Pongpong..,
originally uploaded by |_in|\|ek{ }.

Will ya look at the paws on that?!

I am loving Engagdget’s take on 1985. I especially like this Sony Discman.

Quite a fun, but alpha version, Flickr jigsaw puzzle. I am rubbish at them however.

I don’t know whether to believe that these people have seriously built their cat a robot platform to transport it after it lost the use of its hind legs, as reported in Engadget.

Apparently Robocat even has his own control panel. Now if it doubled as a Roomba, then it could do the vacuuming at the same time! Magic.

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New Magazine,
originally uploaded by Muffet.

I love this new Flickr application from the same creative person who brought us the Flickr badge. Make your own magazine cover out of a Flickr photo. I am going to make a Lily magazine. She is coming to stay officially next week! Woohoo!

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Why drinking and photoshopping do not mix….,
originally uploaded by jege.

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originally uploaded by r.d.i..

I am endlessly fascinated by cats and their computers. Warm, but also a place where you can still be the centre of your owner’s attention.

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Kittens: 6 weeks old today,
originally uploaded by javagirl.

My friend at work said these were so cute she wanted to toll them all together with a rolling pin.

She also like to squeeze very cute things rather tightly.

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Cat Crossing,
originally uploaded by ascesis.e.

We came across so many of these signs in the US – er, without the cat on it actually – and I eventually had to ask why the same Chinese sign was in every town and what did it mean.

Doh.

This has to be one of the most poorly balanced and unintelligent article I have ever read on women and gadgets.

It fails to understand gender dynamics in a typical household, to start with. If you have a typical family, with a computer in the house, how do you know if it is the kids, the dad or the mum creating their membership to download from iTunes, for example? Just because someone may register themselves as male, does not mean that it is always “he” who will use that log in to download stuff. I want to see some proper ethnographic research on this before I believe assumptions made such as “women don’t download.”

It also fails to recognise that there are millions of women getting on very well with technology – in all its many forms. It also fails to recognise that there are many men too who cannot be bothered with something that is in fact fundamentally poorly designed. If people have to go to a manual to figure out how something works, then design the product better. Don’t blame it on gendered stereotypes.

I see women on a daily basis on the Tube nd around the country with cameras, sophisticated mobiles, laptop bags and, above all, ipods.

There are millions of women gamers out there – over 45% of mobile gamers are women. The Sims is ruled by women players.

It has nothing to do with gender. It is about making technology smarter, using simplicity to hide its complexity. It is about better design.

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Dalek in transit,
originally uploaded by louder.

Even the Daleks are coming upon hard times in London nowadays…

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pac-sharon-,
originally uploaded by sharonspotbottom.

Sharon does the classics.

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I left my heart…,
originally uploaded by The Kitten’s Toe.

…on the Victoria Line. That’s right. I dropped my unsent postcard from San Francisco onto the Tube track. I felt helpless. Looked quite cool though!

I want these shoes. I have always wanted perspex shoes anyway. I think it is a Wonder Woman or Barbie residual thing.

But these I want even more. They were on show at this year’s SIGGRAPH the annual design convention. They are by Simona Drusa Pasque.

They have a single use stun gun embedded in the toe of one, and an audible alarm system activated by stamping the feet embedded in the other.

BBC NEWS | World | Europe | German sun lounger issue settled Germans aren’t legally allowed to reserve their sunlounger with their towels anymore.

The latest armoury for the Citizen Journalists* of today.

It is the Report-the-World trench coat which has 10 cameras for capturing 360-degree images. The front pocket holds a small computer and a ring-embedded speaker transmits location-based audio instructions, says We Make Money Not Art.

*Actually, I prefer the term Witness Reporters.

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Lilly Cat,
originally uploaded by The Kitten’s Toe.

After a week of pure pampering, Lilly the beautiful cat who came to visit has gone home. Next door came to collect her after I told them she was still here and we were worried she had forgotten her family. Apparently she had been back home for a bit last night but was quite distant. She will come snd visit again though. I hope.

I am very tearful now ;0(

I miss her.

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Covered with catnip,
originally uploaded by :.

Now where did put my stash? One drawback of catnip consumption.