Category: Fun, Funny or Weird

Adidas says it has created the world’s first “smart shoe” by mating it with a computer chip that adapts its cushioning level to a runner’s size and stride.

The Adidas 1 is the product of a three-year secret project the German company developed at its U.S. headquarters in Portland, Oregon.

The microprocessor is located in the arch of the shoe, and drives a tiny screw and cable system that adjusts the heel cushion depending on the signals sent back by an electric sensor coupled to a magnet.

It is powered by a battery that conserves power by adjusting the shoe while it is in the air during a runner’s stride, avoiding resistance from the ground.

The entire assembly weighs no more than 40 grams — just 10 percent of the 400-gram total weight of the shoe, to keep it light enough for distance runners.

Very very interesting, beautiful even.
A true work of genius.

Last night the finale for the cult comedy show “Friends” was aired on NBC, bringing with it an end to the 10 years of fun.

I know a lot of people think that Friends is over-rated, and that it’s not really such a great comedy, but I honestly disagree.

Friends was so much fun, and brought this really cool humour to our screens. The chemistry between the actors was a great one and they rocked together.
I don’t think I’ve ever enjoyed any other comedy show as much as I enjoy Friends.

So, it’s a shame that it’s coming to an end, although I understand that it can’t go on forever and that the actors want to move on to different things. I would do the same too.

Anyway, as only the US got the finale yesterday and that the rest of the world will have to wait to see it for a while (long or short depends on where the person is in the world), here are the major plot lines of the finale.

Ross and Rachel realized they loved each other and pledged to stay together “for good.”
Rachel initially brushed off Ross’ sentimental airport confession but fought her way off the plane bound for Paris to return home.
“We’re done being stupid?” Ross asked as the on-again off-again couple hugged. But then he added, “unless we’re on a break.”

A second story line followed Monica and Chandler as they packed their belongings to leave New York.
Monica and Chandler had been expecting to adopt a baby throughout the final season so it wasn’t a shock that there was a hospital scene and a birth.
But the twist came as the couple had twins — a boy and a girl, or “one of each,” as Chandler described it.

Phoebe finished the show happily married. She agreed to have children with her husband, as many as he wants.

The one character who did not find closure was Joey. Viewers know he must be going to Los Angeles to pursue his acting career because NBC has already added the spin-off, “Joey,” to its fall schedule.
And, so he did.

In the end, the “Friends” left an empty apartment and the show faded to black.

Coke has received FCC approval for a soda can-shaped GPS-equipped cellphone that they custom-made for a contest they’re running this summer.

They’re going to start putting a few of the sodaphones in 12-packs this summer in the U.S., and if you find one of them you press a button which instantly connects you to an operator who’ll tell you that you’ve just won a Chevy SUV. Another button activates the a GPS homing beacon on the can so that Coke can immediately deliver the prize to your location.

[Via Boing Boing, Via Engadget]

From the years I’ve spent in the IT services field, I’ve come to the conclusion that the following are the 10 golden rules for this sector:

1. It’s always Extra Super Damn Urgent!
2. Client deadlines are an illusion. Yours are painful obligations.
3. Your one hour meeting scheduled for today will take place 3 weeks later on a weekend and will last all day long. What else do you have to do anyways?
4. Final Client Validations are as valid as your wet dreams.
5. A year long project starts today, is due next week and you shouldn’t expect any input from the client yet.
6. You and your life are included with the sold service. Yes, “slave” is the perfect word.
7. No project ever ends. once it begins you’re stuck with it forever and ever and ever and ever…
8. No need to estimate how much time you need to finish a project. The client already knows when he wants it.
9. Ever heard of that rule “The Client is King”, tattoo it somewhere and be prepared to literally live it every day of your useless life.
10. The client knows your work better than you, so just follow the damn orders.

Well, ok, maybe it’s not that bad. It’s actually a lot worse!

God help me please…

So someone has finally come up with what looks like a fun Google game.

Google: A party game for three or more players.

Pick a player to go first. The player who goes first picks two words, which are fed to the Google search page. After this, play passes to the left, and each player adds a word. Words may be misspelled or made up. If a search turns up no hits, the player who added the last word is out and should take a drink.
The last player in the game, or the first player to reach a search with only one result, wins.
Play resumes with the person on the left of the previous winner. Count points however you want.

Fore more info on the game and it’s rules, go here.

Concerned for the health of people being killed by nuclear bombs and the well-being of the environment, the EPA has ordered new, less-toxic, rockets to be installed on ICBMs.
So at least, you can be sure that you’ll die healthy and in a clean environment when nukes start flying around.

“In order to comply with EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) regulations, and at a cost of about $5.2 million per ICBM, the rocket motors on 500 Minuteman III missiles will be replaced with new ones. These rockets will emit less toxic chemicals when used.”

“EPA regulations do not apply in foreign countries, so no changes are being made to reduce the harmful environmental effects of the nuclear warheads.”

Whatever!

[via Boing Boing, eclecticism]

“Secondly, although an English carrier or short-faced tumbler differs immensely in certain characters from the rock-pigeon, yet by comparing the several sub-breeds of these breeds, more especially those brought from distant countries, we can make an almost perfect series between the extremes of structure.”

Taken from Charles Darwin’s The Origin Of Species.

Cool meme.

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

[via i never knew]

No, it doesn’t blind you. And now medical researchers say it’s not going to give you cancer either.

Frequent ejaculation during masturbation or sex, a new study has found, isn’t associated with an increased risk for prostate cancer, laying to rest a popular misconception. In fact, it may even decrease the risks for certain people.

The research, published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, is based on surveys of nearly 30,000 men from 1992 to 2000. The mostly white males, ages 46 to 81, provided histories of sexual intercourse, nocturnal emission and masturbation during their twenties, forties and within the previous year.

Results showed no relationship between ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer for most categories.

In fact, men who reported frequent ejaculation over their lifetime–that’s more than four to seven times per month, in case you’re counting–had fewer overall cases of prostate cancer than those who ejaculated less often.

And those tireless individuals averaging 21 or more ejaculations a month over their lifetime showed only half the risk for developing the disease.

The researchers noted 38% of married people over 60 in the United States have sex one-to-four times per month, while 15% are sexually active at least five times per month.

Hmmm, very interesting 😉

[Source: Forbes]

Body piercing and tattoos make way — the latest fashion trend to hit the Netherlands is eyeball jewellery.

Dutch eye surgeons have implanted tiny pieces of jewellery called “JewelEye” in the mucous membrane of the eyes of six women and one man in cosmetic surgery pioneered by an ophthalmic surgery research and development institute in Rotterdam.

The procedure involves inserting a 3.5 mm (0.13 inch) wide piece of specially developed jewellery — the range includes a glittering half-moon or heart — into the eye’s mucous membrane under local anaesthetic at a cost of 500 to 1,000 euros (270 to 540 pounds).

This is simply mad. First it was tatoos and they had them everywhere, then it was piercing and they didn’t leave one tiny part of the human body without putting a hole into it, then came tongue splitting which happily didn’t spread that much and now it’s eye jewellery.
What’s next in this mad series of body mutilation?
Maybe cutting off pieces of our bodies will become hip soon!

[More: Yahoo! News]

Husband : (Returning late from work) “Good Evening dear….I’m now logged in.”
Wife: Have you brought the groceries?
Husband: Bad command or filename.
Wife: But I told you in the morning
Husband: Syntax Error. Abort?
Wife: What about my new TV?
Husband: Variable not found . . .
Wife: At least, give me your Credit Card, I want to do some shopping.
Husband: Sharing Violation. Access denied (I believe in Biodata)
Wife: Do you love me or do you only love computers or are you just being funny?
Husband: Too many parameters . . .
Wife: It was a great mistake that I married an idiot like you.
Husband: Data type mismatch.
Wife: You are useless.
Husband: It’s by Default.
Wife: What about your Salary?
Husband: File in use . . . Try later. (I believe in Biodata)
Wife: What is my value in the family.
Husband: Unknown Virus.

[Thanks to my friend Yassine for sending this to me.]