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This is just amazing.

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/481

I’ve never really watched any TED Talks but…wow!
Fair enough, walking around with such a device would make you look like a complete looser… But I already am. YAY!

So I figure, now the initial “buzz” of twitter has calmed down a bit, I’d see what all this new shite was about.
I understand the “microblogging” idea. Basically, when your attention span drops to sub atomic levels as this day and age has come to cherish, and no-one can be bothered to write out an actual informative post on their blog. (or in my case complete drivel!)

I signed up yesterday having no idea wtf I was doing. When you begin, it does the friendly “enter your email address and passwords so I can steal all your contacts and spam the hell out of them” but at least gives a relatively obvious button to skip that step. Unfortunately, its probably not obvious enough for all the braindead web-kiddies destroying the net with their facebooks and myspaces.
The next step suggests people you might be interested in “following”. Which I don’t quite understand because I have no interest in following “Sockamillion – Jason Scott’s Cat”. Or for that matter, “10 Downing Street” (Yes #10 has a twitter profile…WTF?!)
It seems more like these profiles are most popular rather than picking people who you ACTUALLY might be interested in.

However, again, its a skippable step and you can get into searching for the people/organisations/etc you want. I found one or two people I know and also the twitter profiles of some celebs like Mr Stephen Fry, Kevin Smith and… Neil Gaiman!!

Its quite interesting following celebs as you get to see a more personal front of them rather than a media bastardisation of their persona.
Johnathan Woss tending to his sick wife, Neil looking after his son with a broken leg.

I’ve also added a “friend” called ‘playtwivia’ which a member of Neowin.net coded which pops up a trivia question every 3-4 hours and you earn points for answering correctly. Its quite smart, but the internet being what it is, every answer is googleable.

(I realised I have coined many new words on this blog post. Or at least words which aren’t technically true words. But hey, its my Blog!)

Twitter can also be used as a News Aggregator;  a sort of RSS feed mixed into it. So I get the lastest news posts from Neowin.net and also the latest lolcats from icanhascheezburger.com

All in all, its maybe something I’ll keep up with alongside this blog.  Sure i’m not going to ‘tweet’ things like, “I’m in work, its boring” or, “woke up, had breakfast, i’m tired” –At least not constantly. No-one is interested in that crap. I can develop it into something somewhat interesting such as my tweet:

Just made Haggis Neeps and Tatties for first time myself – all i can say is: http://tinyurl.com/arotcm

The tinyurl points to an excellent video on youtube. I suggest you play it with volume UP!

So, if you want to be depressed by my inane ramblings more, follow me on http://twitter.com/grantdickins

This has got to be the most frikken awesome thing I’ve ever seen…in the last 7 days at least.

How cool would it be to to burst into a flaming room wealding this bad boy?
Ok. So it doesn’t look like it could hold much water, CO2 or powder. But fuck that. The sheer awesomefulness of this thing would make you look 10x better than your typical firefighter. Bwahaha!

[Source: Gizmodo]

Think you can multitask? Try this: while sitting on a chair, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles. Then, while doing that, draw the number 6 with your right hand. You can’t help it: your foot will change direction or you’ll fcuk up your 6.

Similarly: move your right leg in anti-clockwise circles and simultaneously draw the number 8 with your right hand.

Another tricky thing to do: simultaneously rotate the index fingers of both hands clockwise. Do it slowly at first, but then pick up speed. Try to go faster and faster, and pretty soon your two fingers will be going in opposite directions! weeeee!