Interesting Links for 24-12-2011

[andrewducker]

• The world's lowest-tech iPhone speaker looks gorgeous.
  (tags: iphone apple music design )
• World Champion Masturbator, Masanobu Sato, Expands On His Favorite Hobby
  (tags: masturbation video )
• iWatchz - Wear your iPod nano like a watch.
  (tags: ipod watch apple )
• Dutch TV is the first to show cannibalism by the show host!
  (tags: cannibalism tv )

Comments

[autopope]

As Big Brother infected us from the Netherlands, I expect future reality TV shows in the UK to be brightened up by the prospect of the contestants eating one another. This would actually be a significant improvement ...

[octopoid_horror]

It's like we're living in the kind of dystopian near-future that I read about in slightly hackneyed sci-fi books when I was younger! Televised combat to the death must surely be next.

[autopope]

That's the main news channels every night, live from Kabul or Baghdad.

[octopoid_horror]

They seem to shy away from showing actual combat but rather drool over that aftermath a lot of the time.

Until we're watching cage fights between condemned criminals on nanotech optical HUDs, it won't feel like the future.

[poisonduk]

Why don't you approve of the smoking ban in hospital grounds!? I welcome it. NHS Scotland bend over backwards to provide quit smoking help to any patients. Having watched a mother die from lung cancer and having to fight through a smoke blanket at the entrance to the Western General to go hold her hand whilst she struggled to breathe, I wholeheartedly support all hospitals banning smoking within their grounds. I appreciate it's an addiction, no different to alcohol or drugs, but think any steps taken to make it more difficult should be gladly received!

[andrewducker]

Because I disapprove of anything that makes it harder for elderly relatives to visit sick people. My grandmother spent a lot of time visiting my grandfather before he died, and she wouldn't have been able to if she'd been banned from smoking on the grounds. The last thing I want is to make life _more_ stressful for people when they're having a shit time of it already.

[firecat]

The appalling non-accessibility of hospitals would be a good place to start, if you ask me. (Maybe that's only true around here, though.)

[skreidle]

I got a simple black silicone iWatchz band with my new Nano last month for my birthday. :) I do like some of the classier bands, but I can't quite see paying as much as they want for 'em!