What3words (stylizedwhat3words) is a geocoding system for the simple communication of locations with a resolution of 3 m.
what3words encodes geographic coordinates into 3 dictionary words (for example, the Statue of Liberty is located at planet.inches.most).
Click PLAY or see how it works on Vimeo.
Mongolia officially adopted the new address system. Click PLAY or watch it on Vimeo.
The FP-4 Life Pod underground tornado shelter is the perfect solution for a small family up to 10 occupants. …
- Natural ventilation – aluminum screened external vents and filtered internal vents
- Heavy duty piston assisted door with lockable 3-point latching system and external handle
- LED lighting and motion activated lighting
Rockin’ should install one of these in his back yard.
Panic Room. Emergency shelter. Storage unit. And Crypt … when the Lord calls him to heaven. 🙂
My favourite fast food joint (after Timmies) has many awesome choices including this one.
A juicy 1/4 lb* beef patty topped with melted garlic herb butter, delicious Portobello Mushrooms, grilled onions, Swiss cheese and finished with creamy peppercorn mayo – all on a gourmet signature bun.
Let’s say you have to flee your country.
Where would you go?
You’d cross the border hoping to return to your home, family and friends as soon as possible.
To a clean, safe refugee camp.
Former soldier and UN observer Neale Sutton and businessman Andrew Hamilton’s self-designed “Humanihut” was last week plucked from relative obscurity to be on the Disrupt 100 list, an index of the most promising start-ups around the world. …
After securing a $50,000 grant from the South Australian government, the pair then engaged Adelaide company Applidyne to create “proof of concept” drawings based on their specifications.
The final product is a robust family-sized hut that can be set up in five minutes, with a village of 2400 huts designed to be set up in three days, inclusive of power, water and sewage. Their calculations show that one shipping container can hold 16 Humanihuts.
“When you unpack the 16 huts, the shipping container is then reconfigured to be the shower, washing and cleaning facilities for those people living in those 16 huts. We bring our own water treatment plant that can reuse 85 per cent of the “black water” for showers and toilets,” said Sutton. …
South Australian entrepreneurs seek to improve refugee lives with Humanihut
Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.
The Humanihut Shelter System is an inexpensive, innovative and robust shelter system for people at their time of greatest need.
Thanks Mary.
So far I’m very pleased. Small form factor. Very durable. Good for travel. Good for my Coaching presentations.
I was inspired to buy a UE Roll when the speakers in my old laptop stopped functioning.
Wirecutter:
After listening to 30 of the most promising new Bluetooth speaker models on top of the 48 we originally tested last year, we think the UE Roll is the best choice for most listeners. It combines above-average sound quality with a waterproof, travel-friendly design that practically begs to be slipped into your suitcase or laptop bag. You can find speakers in the same price range that sound a little better, but in our opinion, you can’t find one that matches the Roll’s combination of sound quality, design, utility, and price.
We got my Mom one of these.
Large, bold black letters on yellow keys are easier to see.
By the time I reached the 6th and final book I was ready to be done with the First Law world.
Yet this book turned out to be – perhaps – the best of all.
This one is quite different. A Western set in a fantasy world. Abercrombie is a superb writer.
They burned her home.
They stole her brother and sister.
But vengeance is following.
Shy South hoped to bury her bloody past and ride away smiling, but she’ll have to sharpen up some bad old ways to get her family back, and she’s not a woman to flinch from what needs doing. She sets off in pursuit with only a pair of oxen and her cowardly old step father Lamb for company. But it turns out Lamb’s buried a bloody past of his own. And out in the lawless Far Country, the past never stays buried.
Their journey will take them across the barren plains to a frontier town gripped by gold fever, through feud, duel and massacre, high into the unmapped mountains to a reckoning with the Ghosts. Even worse it will force them into alliance with Nicomo Cosca, infamous soldier of fortune, and his feckless lawyer, Temple, two men no one should ever have to trust…
I was surprised to hear of a reality TV series featuring very small houses.
Turns out there are MANY Tiny House TV shows. 🙂
Plenty of people should be downsizing.
Click PLAY or watch a sample on YouTube.
I hate 99% of advertisements. All businesses that rely on advertising dread me.
Google and Facebook hate guys like me. Apple and Amazon don’t much care.
All companies should evolve to be less reliant on advertising. Micropayment are the best alternatives still, I think.
My online life is greatly enhanced with extensions that block advertising. Right now I have AdBlock installed on Safari. Adblock Plus installed in Chrome.
AdBlock vs. Adblock Plus: The Ultimate Comparison With Pros & Cons
I don’t really have much of a preference between the two.
Yes. Otherwise we’ll have nothing but Facebook.
… the advertising business, especially on mobile, is increasingly in the hands of one company: Facebook. In the last quarter, Facebook made $1.5 billion in profit. Not revenue. Profit. …
Facebook’s command over everyone’s attention span, as well as its deft use of your personal data, has turned it into a money-spinning machine. We may well look back and see Facebook as the most consequential development in publishing since the invention of hot type …
So where does that leave old fashioned news organizations like The New York Times? Surveying this seemingly terrifying landscape, I am cautiously optimistic. The successful rollout of our paywall in 2011 was crucial in resetting the conversation with readers about the value of the journalism we produce. The Times now has 1.2 million digital subscribers worldwide, with the fastest growth coming from outside the United States. …
Why people pay to read The New York Times
I’m paying for Economist now. Seems I should suck it up and start paying for others of my favourite news sources.
Rick McCharles 