funny blogs and interesting ideas....

Interesting ideas first: I was just considering recently about our increasing dependence on the mobile phones, items which did not exist 20 years ago yet now we can't live without them. How many times did we leave our mobile phone at home and then the whole day we felt it missing(or worse...)! Once upon a time the mobile phones were "pocket-bricks" designed for receiving calls and writing some text messages, with 2-3 lines of text available.... nowadays, a mobile phone(like the iphone, for instance) can:

• touch screen - and not only with a stylus, but simply with the finger.... - literally "the world at your fingertips";
• video calling - not on the iphone, but there are 3g phones (nokia, starting with Nokia 6680....) that support video calls;
• taking pictures and video filming - that's normal, by now...
• creating, reading, and editing documents - from the docs to excels and pdf's, also the isilo docs and numerous other documents readers....
• operating system, many times multi-tasking, even on the phone;
• internet on the phone - besides the wireless connection, the internet on the go from the service providers is available at cheap rates....
• movies and pictures on the go.... due to the high capacity storage of the mobile phone, you can store movies and pictures, sometimes even having the possibility to edit them;
• music on the go - high capacity storage, high quality sound, even good speakers, long battery life while playing music(if you don't do anything else on the phone);
• games.... lots and lots of games;
• other third party applications like: newsreaders, compass, google applications(from google earth to searching, etc), calculators, encyclopedias, dictionaries, phrasebooks, piano or guitar tuner, weather application, tube or metro updates and routes, level, flashlight, voice recorders, bible readers, etc
• messenger on the mobile phone - from skype to msn and yahoo, aol and other messenger, either separate or altogether in one application.... including facebook on the phone;
  
• GPS and SatNav - very nice and handy applications that track certain addresses or give you the route to get there, with the pin-pointing of your current location(I've been enjoying this one recently.... - going on the bus and seeing your pinpoint moving along the street.... until you either pass your destination or stop before it....)
  

and many more other applications. They take our time, yes, but somehow they also became part of our life.... living more and more a "virtual" life, on the electronic devices we have....
Now moving on to some funny blogs I discovered online:

• failblog - Fail, Owned and Pwn moments in pictures and videos. Share fails, pwns, and owns with the world on FAIL Blog. Check out the funny articles/pictures/movies they have, like: Luminous life fail(among the illustrious people presented by the Luminous life, people like Nelson Mandella, Alfred Nobel, etc, is also... Ricky Martin!); Drive fail(be ready for a shock while watching a seemingly simple maneuvre to drive the car into the courtyard...), Handicap access fail(the toilets for the people are downstairs, for the disabled people, they have to go up the stairs...), Ironing fail(checking out if the iron works...); camera fail (taking a picture of.... your own eye); public decency fail(no comment...); and many other funny yet real stuff...
• suvive the apocalypse - I hope it's a joke... what things you need to get in order to be protected in the case of the "apocalypse"... I like the funny application that shows what would happen to your city in case a bomb of a certain size would be dropped... - imagination...