You know, if I were a religious sort of girl, I'd say I'd done something very horrible in a previous life. I seem to be running into walls as of late, starting something so awesome, then getting a face full of "hey, feck off!". Seems like I'll be hanging around the area for a year or so. Perhaps I'll get another job... but more likely i'll indulge in some mindless classes at MU. *shrugs* it's free, and I already have my degree, so it'll be purely for entertainment and health insurance *grimace*.
Anyway. Enough of me. Check out this bit from an article I read this morning in the BBC Magazine entitled "
Blogging vs. Dogging":
| Blogging | - maintaining "an online journal or diary" (OED) |
| Podcasting | - making audio files available online for "software to automatically download the files for listening at the user's convenience" (Wikipedia) |
| Metrosexual | - someone whose habits and grooming are similar to "those considered typical of a fashionable, urban, homosexual man" (OED) |
| Flashmobbing | - "when a crowd converges at a specific time and place, to participate in apparent random acts, and then dissipates" (Wikipedia) |
| Dogging | - having sex with strangers in a public place. "Observers are encouraged, thus making dogging a form of exhibitionism" (Wikipedia) |
| Chav | - people who are "uneducated, uncultured and prone to antisocial or immoral behaviour" (Wikipedia) |
| Happy Slapping | - "The practice of slapping or punching somebody unsuspectedly and recording it with a camera phone." (Urban Dictionary) |
Now, to be quite honest, I'd never heard of Happy Slapping, Chav, Flashmobbing, nor Dogging.There were also reader comments on the site, some of them boistering the definitions, some of them refuting them. My favorite of these was an old woman from the UK who says: "
I'm rather depressed to have to admit, that at 56 years old, I knew what all those terms meant. I must be associating with the wrong sort. :("
GAME NEWS!
The IPod Nano
Being poor as dirt, I've not be able to obtain one of these teeny tiny toys, but the rage has hit the blogs all over. The BBC claims that the Nano is defunct, the screens being the main problem. Claims are that the screens will crack nearly as soon as you take them from the box. “This is a real but minor issue involving a vendor quality problem in a small number of units,” the company said, pointing out that the screens are the same ones used in 4G iPods.
Fortunetly, there is a company that made a quick response to the issue. TUNEWEAR has just announced the super sweet looking TUNEWALLET:
Know what the real kicker is about the new IPod Nano? It costs only $90 to make.
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