For those with robot-phobia having nightmares about a terminator/Cylon takeover, you can relax.  Or at least have a beer and not worry about it.  They actually made a robot that fetches you a beer.

But if we let robots get us beer then what’s next?  The next thing we know they’ll want to get married.  I say stop the robot agenda!  Get your own beer!  LOL

Check out this beer fetching robot.  (Actually, it’s very cool!)

Children are the hope for tomorrow.  But let’s face it, hope just doesn’t sell.  However, good looks are a hot commodity in any market.  So the http://www.beautifulpeople.com/ website has launched an egg and sperm service so that even ‘ugly people’ can bring good looking children into the world.  Just purchase some seed from one someone on http://www.beautifulpeople.com/ then you can sleep easy knowing that your little bundle of joy will grow up to be a hottie!  And isn’t that the hope of every parent.

Okay, does anyone else find this a bit creepy?

The social networking website http://www.beautifulpeople.com/ describes itself as an “elite online club, where every member works the door” — that is, users can join only after enough members vote them “beautiful” during the 48 hours after their profile is uploaded.  In fact, it enforced their strict ban on ugly people by exiling about 5,000 members for packing on the pounds during the 2009 holiday season.  So would this mean that they would have to recall the eggs and sperm from those beauties that have fallen from grace?

I think Stephen Colbert sums it up best in his hilarious segment on beautiful people selling their fertility:
“Order today because all children are beautiful in the eyes of the Lord, but down here on Earth we’ve got higher standards.”
Watch the whole clip here – very funny!

Now that texting and driving is illegal in Georgia we can all take a sign of relieve that the roads will be a utopia of safety.  BUT WAIT!   Here’s a list of stupid things you can still legally do while driving.

• Eating
• Reading a huge foldout paper map
• Smoking
• Fold your laundry
• Apply Makeup
• Load your Gun
• Carve a wood flute
• Shave your legs

And the list goes on!
OH MY!

Of course anyone with an IQ above a squirrel knows that texting and driving is a really bad idea.  But so is eating a big juicy hamburger, putting on mascara, or doing both at the same time.

It turns out the “Failure to Control” laws that have been on the books for a long time could cover texting and driving as well as other stupid stuff.  And studies from places with texting bans show no significant decrease in traffic accidents.  WHAT!

So did we really need to spend millions of tax payer dollars to pass this new anti-texting-while-driving law?
Were politicians just pandering to get more votes instead of dealing with the more important issues of our times?
I think even your average squirrel knows the answer to these questions.



sOccket is a soccer ball that generates electricity while it’s being kicked around and stores it to be used later. It generates enough energy to power an LED light or charge a small electronic device–which may not seem like much power. But in Africa and third world countries, it could literally mean the difference between life and death.

Developing counties struggle with basic power and still use kerosene lamps to get light.  But when burned indoors these lamps are extremely harmful to human health creating the same ill effects of inhaling two packs of cigarettes a day.  Furthermore, kerosene lamps have a negative impact on the environment.  They contribute 190 million tons of carbon emissions to the atmosphere a year, or 38 million cars’ worth.

This bright idea have been brought to life by four Harvard students. Kick the ball around for 10 minutes and you’ll get three hours of usable electricity.  This is a positive plug for technology as an innovative solution for biology (people).

Here’s more on the sOccket.
http://www.soccket.com/
http://soccket.posterous.com/

Is it possible the Brits invented Twitter in 1935?

If imitation is the highest form of flattery then the “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” ads must be thrilled.  This fun spoof combines just a few of my favorite things:

• Technology (I can go either way – Mac or PC)
• Comics (Once again, I can go either way – Marvel or DC.)
• Green Lantern (I so want one of those rings!)
• Ryan Reynolds (Who doesn’t like Ryan Reynolds?)
• Sarcastic humor (Is there any other kind?)

The Deadpool song at the end is hilarious.  Enjoy…

For those of you who are normal, Marvel and DC are the biggest players in the comic book/superhero universe.  Here’s a great explanation of the difference.  (Click here to read the full article.)

The Marvel vs. DC dogfight has raged since the beginning of comic book time. DC is older, taking its name from 1937’s Detective Comics. In June 1938, the company released what would become the most valuable comic ever: Action Comics #1, introducing a fella from Krypton called Superman. This essentially launched the Golden Age of comics, in which DC introduced icons like Bob Kane’s Batman (in the also ridiculously valuable Detective Comics #27, 1939), The Flash, Hawkman, and The Green Lantern (all in 1940), Aquaman (in 1941), and Wonder Woman (in 1942).

Meanwhile, the company’s rival, Timely Comics, staked its claim with Marvel Comics #1 in 1939, introducing future mainstays the Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner. A new hero, Captain America, debuted the next year when the legendary writer Joe Simon and incredible artist Jack Kirby combined powers.

After waning through the ’40s and ’50s, the costumed hero genre rose again in the late ’50s with DC’s Justice League of America. In 1962 Timely, now called Marvel Comics, introduced the Fantastic Four, the brainchild of Kirby and a writer pennamed Stan Lee. The Silver Age had begun, and it would introduce the biggest hero of the era: Spider-Man. The creation of Lee (who would later go on to lead Marvel) and artist Steve Ditko, Spider-Man debuted in 1962’s Amazing Fantasy #15.

Our favorite Glee bi#@h Jane Lynch takes on the iPhone 4.
“It’s like cluster bombs going off in my pants.”  Watch the video and you’ll get it.

Your iPhone can help you find sexual compatibility.  Yep, there’s an app for that.  It’s called Boink and the name says it.

Here’s how it works.  Download the Boink app from iTunes (free for now), create a profile based on six categories of sexual likes, dislikes, positions, kinks and fetishes, then “bump” iPhones with other Boinkers.  It uses the same technology as the BUMP app which lets users exchange contact information by bumping phones.

It reveals whether or not they would make good sexual partners with cute messages like “Drop what you are doing and get to a hotel right now” or “Turn and run away” while keeping your Boink profile private.

For those less concerned about user privacy, you can post your number of “boinks” to Facebook and Twitter, as well as read and share hookup stories with other users.

Here’s a video complete with a sexy soundtrack showing how to Boink on your iPhone.

So you can take sexual compatibility off the list of “there’s-an-app-for-that” jokes.

Boink is from MEDL Mobile (http://www.medlmobile.com/)

The Internet is killing the great American institution of lying. Why do people lie knowing it will go on the Web for the world to fact-check?  Bill Maher sums it up:

For the Wall Street generation it was all about being upwardly mobile.  Today you’ve got to be socially mobile.  Social networking and mobile technology are setting the pace for the Web.  Is your online strategy socially mobile?  If not, you could be missing out.

Here’s a quote from Darryl Zanuck of 20th Century Fox from 1946:

Television won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night

Don’t be to social mobility what Darryl Zanuck was to TV.

Here are some “bottom line” considerations for a socially mobile web presence.

To Flash or Not to Flash
Flash is a proprietary technology from Adobe primarily used to add animation and video to websites.  The problem with Flash is that is not supported on many mobile environments.   There has always been tension between Flash and the Web.  Artistic types like it.  But because of security issues, incompatibility with search engines, and being not compatible with many mobile platforms, Flash has fallen out of favor with the IT community.
The bottom line.
You should not build your website on Flash or use Flash for your navigation.  If you use Flash at all, use it sparingly.  I prefer using JavaScript; it is an open system that works well on mobile devices.  And if you use video upload it to YouTube and put the link on your website.  Then when your website is viewed from an iPhone/iTouch/iPad it will launch the YouTube app and the user can view the video.

Content is King
On the Web content is king.  Of course you want a nice looking website, but on the Internet it is more important what you say that just having a pretty frame.  And in today’s real-time online world you need to be able to update your website quickly without a lot of drama.  Your website should be built on an open source platform where you post updates without having to go your web designer.  Then you can save your webmaster for the big “techie” stuff (ecommerce, RSS feeds, social network plugins, etc…).
The bottom line.
If you need to call your web person every time you want to make even a tiny change to your website then it’s time to renovate your website to a content control system.  My favorite is WordPress because of its ease of use, plays well with social media, and works well on mobile browsers.

Can Facebook Help Your Business?
The short answer is “yes”.  Whether it is Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, and even MySpace, having a social media strategy ranks up there with having a search engine optimization plan (Google ranking).  Having a page on social networking websites is the best way to improve your search engine placement, so it all ties together.  However, it is important to control your social networking and not let it control you.  (Stay clear of Farmville, Mafia Wars, and politics!)
The bottom line.
Embracing social networking can help others embrace your business.  If you are a bit social-media-shy then I suggest you start with Linkedin as it caters to the business community and is not as intense as Facebook.

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