Blogs All Kinds Of Blogs: February 2009

Saturday, February 28, 2009

Round my hometown memories are fresh

"We aint't lost, just wandering..."

I spent sunny Saturday afternoon shopping, eating yummy Italian food and catching up over a cup of coffee with my gorgeous cousin Merve.

Blazer: Lefties
Blue shirt: Pilot, from Portobello Road Market
Stud Bracelet: Tally Weijl
Sunglasses: thrifted

Saturday's Inspiration

Lara Stone for Zara

Seriously, I need a bf blazer and a white sheer silken blouse!

Source: http://allforfashionxo.blogspot.com/

Sunset at Rødtangen

Friday, February 27, 2009

Bora Aksu Fall 09

The new collection from the London-based Turkish designer Bora Aksu. Those midnight blue dresses and tights are beyond amazing in my opinion.

Watch this video to see the show, hear what inspired the designer and what he thinks about fair trade fashion.

Source: Zimbio via House of Style

Cross the line

All the thoughts rage through my head
Things that I’ve done and things I’ve said
There’ll be no starting over.

Oh, it’s time for letting go
When I cross the line...

Bag: Essentiel
Scarf: Avant Premiere
Belt: Bershka

Filtvedt fyr - Filtvedt Lighthouse

Oslo Subway Wholecars On The News

Amazing Computer Keyboard Designs, Never Seen Before

The roll-up keyboard

These keyboards feature 104 keys in a standard QWERTY layout, but with a nifty twist of being the most portable keyboard seen to date. Simply roll the unit up when you’re done with it! A great tool for laptop users who miss their full-sized KB when on the road, or LAN party warriors looking to lighten their load.

The virtual laser keyboard

The I-Tech Virtual Keyboard uses a light projection of a full-sized computer keyboard on almost any surface. Used with PDA’s and Smart Phones, the Virtual Keyboard provides a practical way to do e-mail, word processing and spreadsheet tasks, enabling users to leave laptops and computers at home.

The wrist keyboard

Completely sealed, it can operate in the rain and other harsh environments. A curved back provides a secure and comfortable placement on the wrist. The keyboard layout is optimized to provide alphanumeric entry. Carefully positioned arrow keys ease menu-oriented tasks. The WristPC keyboard comes with an optional wrist strap to provide the capability of attaching it to your wrist.

The frogpad

The FrogPad mobile keypad with its innovative 20 full-size key layout optimized around the most frequently used characters sets a new standard in information access with superior portability and ergonomics, global adaptability, rapid learning and ease of use. Its unique patented keystroke algorithms enable it to be used in either a right or left-handed mode and with any international language set.

Maltron 3D Ergonomic Keyboard

These fully ergonomic two handed keyboards fit the shape of hands and the different lengths of fingers to reduce movement and tension.

The Orbitouch Keyboard

The orbiTouch Keyless ergonomic Keyboard creates a keystroke when you slide the two domes into one of their eight respective positions. You type the different characters by sliding the domes to create letters and numbers. The orbiTouch Keyless ergonomic Keyboard also has an integrated mouse, so moving the domes gives you full mouse and keyboard capability!

The Tidy Tippist

The marriage of eating and tipping: the decorative tablecloth, made of felt, contains a textile keyboard. The electronic is woven into a fabric, which finds itself between layers of water resistant felt as sandwich material. The soft felt surface makes it a pleasure for fingers to tip a cozy keyboard.

The SafeType keyboard

This well thought at keyboard will allow you to type in a relaxed position, saving you the pain. All that despite its futurist look. The supplementary keypad allows the user to position the 10-key numeric pad with arrow keys anywhere that is most usable and comfortable. It can be on the left or the right, or even in your lap. We are constantly amazed by the tremendous variation in challenges and how people find solutions for their own problems.

The Twiddler 2

The Twiddler2 is a pocket-sized mouse pointer plus a full-function keyboard in a single unit that fits neatly in either right or left hand. The Twiddler2 plugs into both keyboard and mouse PS/2 ports (USB port with the PS/2 to USB Adapter) on any computer that accepts standard PS/2 mouse and keyboard (or USB input). Combining major innovations in pointer and keyboard technology, the twiddler is designed to bring renewed enjoyment to current computer users and to attract newcomers to the world of personal computing.

The datahand keyboard

The DataHand ergonomic keyboard offers a total of 132 keys (more than even extended flat keyboards) through the use of five key switches clustered around the tips of each of the fingers. With four modes, shifted by the thumbs, hand movement is no longer required to perform keyboard work. Hand support results in the elimination of the major source of muscular-skeletal stress in hands, wrists, arms, shoulders, backs, and necks.

The Optimus Keyboard

Each and every key on the Optimus Keyboard is a stand-alone display that shows you exactly what it is controlling at the very moment.

Das Keyboard

Where is the letters? Das keyboard believe with no keys to look at when typing, your brain will adapt and memorize the key position thus increasing typing speed.

AlphaGrip

Claimbled to the most comfortable computing device. It is a gaming pad, a keyboard also comes with a mouse trackball.

Amazing Weird Fish With Transparent Head

With a head like a fighter-plane cockpit, a Pacific barreleye fish shows off its highly sensitive, barrel-like eyes--topped by green, orblike lenses--in a picture released today but taken in 2004.

The fish, discovered alive in the deep water off California's central coast by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), is the first specimen of its kind to be found with its soft transparent dome intact.

The 6-inch (15-centimeter) barreleye (Macropinna microstoma) had been known since 1939--but only from mangled specimens dragged to the surface by nets.

The beady bits on the front of the Pacific barreleye fish in this picture released February 23, 2009, aren't eyes but smell organs.

The grayish, barrel-like eyes are beneath the green domes, which may filter light. In this picture the eyes are pointing upward--the better to see prey above in the darkness of the barreleye's deep-sea home.

The barreleye lives more than 2,000 feet (600 meters) beneath the ocean's surface, where the water is almost inky. The transparent- headed fish spends much of its time motionless, eyes upward, MBARI scientists discovered while watching the barreleye fish from a remotely operated vehicle

3D Tube Map and Mr T

If you've ever wondered what the London Underground Map might look like from above ground, the guys at Digital Urban have created a 'quick and dirty' flythrough of the map in the video below:

London Tube Map Traditional Layout from digitalurban on Vimeo.
Taking this one step further, they've morphed this with plasticine look of the lines into a Google Map.

"The routes on the interactive image below illustrates a work in progress produced so we can easily identify the errors". Here's a screengrab, so visit Digital Urban's site to see it in action

There are a few errors here and there but it should only need a few tweaks to be near a complete version which can then be morphed and changed as needs be."

You can also also see the 'Google Maps' version in full screen. There's more about their mapping here.

Many thanks to Ianvisits for the heads up to this.

I love a lot of these creative visualisations of the map and seeing the geographical map from this perspective is leaps on from Simon Clarke's original Geographical Map that it was based on.

One person who's used to hanging out of helicopters and is very used to seeing in air city scenes is Mr T. Last night I was lucky enough to meet him as part of his Snickers Get Some Nuts tour.

Typically my camera ran out of battery juice during the night, but there's a mixture of pictures from my Canon and my cameraphone in the following Mr T in London set. You'll also spot Craig out of the very first Big Brother in some of them!

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Break'n Owt

Time to check out Life is Good sim. (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Life%20is%20good/128/128/2)

At Little Birds location in PollyJean you can find a cute pants outfit for free and if you're up for it a lingerie set for $1. ($0-1 - F - Pant set/Lingerie - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Polly%20Jean/66/55/27)

Concrete Flowers is providing a $1 item for free each week. This week it's the CUTY PANDA DOODLE BOOTS. Stop by to before Monday to pick these up! ($1 - F - Shoe - http://slurl.com/secondlife/X/198/181/38)

Jewelry is from KUMAMOTO JAPAN. ($0 - F - Jewelry - http://slurl.com/secondlife/KUMAMOTO%20JAPAN/202/127/28)

(Skin & eyes from Imagen - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Daffodil%20Island/18/96/23)

Hair shown throughout is the House of Heart Designs Febuary 13th release samples. You'll want to pay special attention to the green displays in store for extra saving on retiring styles. ($0 - F - hair samples - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Tropical%20Escape/126/67/24)

Skin is from Illuminati Designs and is a combination of skins won from their lucky chair (top row is the lucky chair prize - Wynter) and a couple from their free bag (bottom row). Drag your guys along because there is skin for men here both in the lucky chair and in the free gift bag. ($0 - m/f - skins - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Pulse/187/122/30)

If you like the poses used today stop by Juicy to buy them up. Most are not free, but there are several $1 poses and sample bags! ($1 - $300/pack - poses - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Juicy/105/220/23)

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Part of everyone's daily ritual by now should be stopping by Lemania Indigo Designs to see what dress is retiring. If you haven't you may have been missing out! ($1 - F - dress/outfits - http://slurl.com/secondlife/S%20Crystal%20Springs/148/169/30)

(Pictured from left to right: Silver Dream retired 25th, Caramel Latte retired 26th, & today's dress Holiday Reflection all shown with free shoes from Kumamato Japan)

The eyes used throughout are the demo pack of eyes from Skinthesis. ($1/0? - Eyes - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sterling%20Pointe/194/144/2)

If you haven't been by the Kumamato Japan sims in a while you may want to stop by and take a look. Dogyanya2 has added a ton of new lucky boards and has 3 camp pads ranging in time from 10 minutes to 30 minutes! Prizes are dresses, stoles, & shoes. ($0 camp/luckyboard - F - clothing items - http://slurl.com/secondlife/KUMAMOTO%20JAPAN%202/54/193/43) A small store next door named **Chako** has 5 mini-dresses all for free. ($0 - F - dresses - http://slurl.com/secondlife/KUMAMOTO%20JAPAN%202/11/143/28) There's also a kimono shop :::Morhime:: with lucky boards and camp spots for kimonos and kanzashi that was featured some time in November. ($0-$10 - F - kimono/kanzashi - http://slurl.com/secondlife/KUMAMOTO%20JAPAN/246/117/28) There's also a couple of goodies that are still left from Valentine's Day like the dress located on the board outside ::Cafe Bouquet:: that shares space with Dogyanya2. And lets not forget the Kumamoto Japan free area that has 3 lucky boards, kimonos, tinie avs, huggable bears, jewelry, tons of sculpty shoes and boots! ($0 - F/M/tinies - http://slurl.com/secondlife/KUMAMOTO%20JAPAN/202/127/28)

Trinity gave me a bump ^^ and made me take a look at *Amrita* which I hadn't visited since it's opening & if you're like me you'll find a new free item upstairs a muffler in a variety of styles and two cool colors (pale pink & green). Shown with dress & shoes from Kumamoto Japan. ($0 - F - clothes & acessories - http://slurl.com/secondlife/kasandra/225/21/29)

I also have a couple of lucky chair items to share! The first is from *Sugar* mainstore that Suri tped me too (Ty Suri ^^!!). The outfit (Juliet) came complete with glasses and boots. (Lucky Chair - F - outfit - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Tipton/38/27/71)

And to balance out the bad girl outfit. The Rabbit Police RED won from the lucky chair at Umi Usagi. These chairs flip fast and give a lot of ? so. You'll find this outfit along with a pair of boots and also a complete outfit with boots included on the lucky chairs at the main Umi Usagi location. (Lucky Chair - F- Outfits & shoes - http://slurl.com/secondlife/UmiUsagi/206/200/21)