We could soon have the ability to be walking solar panels according to a new fashion initiative previewed in the Siggraph 2007 show and featured in yesterday’s Guardian. Smart clothes have been with us in bulky form for quite a while now. However, technology has been honed to produce ever smaller and more lightweight garments. Take for example the solar bikini. A perfect way of keeping both skin tone and ipod charged. Just don’t forget the factor 50!
MBTs may not be the de rigeur footwear for walkers in the city for much longer if an article in today’s Guardian is true. The benefits of supposedly walking like Masai tribesman may be outweighed by the sense of panic one’s legs feel when the footwear is removed. Muscles are stretched but these are the wrong muscles apparently. I have always thought the Masais have the most remarkable posture and are so graceful in their movements. Conversely, most non-Masai MBT wearers in Dublin look like they are swaying as they walk in an attempt to maintain balance.
Maybe the key is in the word barefoot.
Great piece on BBC today on the development of the term WHATEV-AH. It contains a history of the term and the fact that it can be used in so many ways; “I don’t care”, “I want to end this conversation, “I am totally depressed”….or absolutely nothing at all.
One doesn’t hear the term so much in middle-class Dublin areas despite the popularity of Little Britain here. The real sociolinguistic odditiy of recent times is how teenagers have moved from trying to speak like they live in Southern England to speaking like they live in Southern California in less than one generation.
Whatev-ah the reason, it has taken more than Matt Lucas to achieve.
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