Kitten Fluff

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obsolete robot,
originally uploaded by _boris.

From the Lifeless Faces group.

Some day the landscape will be full of abandoned robots. Maybe not quite like this.

They will turn into herds of feral bots. Even the council Cleaner Bots will refuse to clear them up.

Can’t wait for used domestic humanoids auctions on eBay. Er, better than these…

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Sister – c. 1976,
originally uploaded by The Kitten’s Toe.

Exhibit A.

On explaining that her daughter would appreciate the seals on Pier Whatever it is in San Francisco.

Me: They were cool but there were only a few there.
Her: Really? Where were they all?
Me: Well this lady in a shop told me they were all off mating in the Channel Islands.
Her: What really? Did they swim there then?
Me: Um…

I am battling a bot in real-time here.

Within minutes of posting that last post, I get a comment spam. I delete it, refresh, and lo and behold there tis another. *rolls up sleeves*

The perfect solution to my crapness when it comes to printing out my digital photos* and putting them in albums to drag out when drunk.

Qoop turns your Flickr photos into a printed, bound book. Smashing.

Via Make Magazine

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3G newspaper,
originally uploaded by The Kitten’s Toe.

I dunno what this little 3G is on the top of the pages on The Sun, but it made me get very excited, sadly, about what could save the newspaper industry - e-paper.

Won’t it be fun when our newspapers are made of e-paper – flexible electronic, disposable (eco friendly – would have to be) and interactive. So, full of sensors.

You could grab a paper, and when you see a story you were interested in, you can swipe your 3G mobile or your multimedia device over the sensor and download content – like movie trailers, or holiday details, or indeed audio and video – and maybe blog links – to your device. Then you discard the paper. You’ve had a good skim read, and you have downloaded your extra content that you are interested in to take with you somewhere else.

I want that now.

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taco hell,
originally uploaded by thehomsar.

Flickr encourages people to build groups to which members are invited to contribute images.

I tried to find an “ice” themed group because I was flicking through my favourites and realised that the non-cat faves were mostly of snow and ice. Hmm…*

I searched for ice themed groups (the search needs working on – odd for a company that was bought by Yahoo) and was intrigued by the variety of different groups that have been set up.

I saw this one – GI’s take on photography. I made me realise how much of a collection of community neighbourhoods Flickr is becoming. People find homes there – affiliations which are not about “being like-minded” which is unproductive.

You get communities difference – all sorts of different people – who intersect and interact around a theme. It is also what I always wanted in an online “community” – a place where you enjoy giving and receiving contributuions – comments for example – and sharing the world through your eyes.

There always somewhere to explore – always something to see, new faces to look at, and new things to talk about.

*Not sure what that says about me.