Posts Tagged ‘icon’
Kissing the germiest tourist attractions…
Posted by: thinkaloo on: September 27, 2009
I read an article on CNN about the germiest tourist attractions in the world. 400,000 people kissed the Blamey stone in Ireland last year and Oscar Wilde fans who visit his tomb in Paris leave Wilde lipstick marks on it. There is no sign in these places saying they are disinfected daily and they’re ok to kiss. The tourist authorities wouldn’t want to make people self-conscious about it but how do we know they clean them every day? This article made me self-conscious, not just about tourist spots. In Greece, it’s the custom to kiss religious icons in a church. I was forced to do it when I was little. I didn’t like it because I believed I was the anti-Christ. Now I know I’m not (I can’t even delete the memory of the kiss how could I have been the chosen one?) but seeing other people’s lip-prints on the glass is still disgusting to me. Can someone convince me that those hairy/oily Greek priests clean the icons before they ask people to kiss them??
Personalized smileys
Posted by: thinkaloo on: September 21, 2009
I would like to use smileys that look like me when I chat. A free online software where you submit your photo and it converts it to different smileys to choose from would be nice to have. Make it easy to import them into any chat program. An option to automatically take photos of me when I use web cam on a chat and convert them to smileys would be great because it would allow for a large variety of facial expressions to choose from. Does anyone here know if it exists already? Thanks.
I think we should keep pay phones in place
Posted by: thinkaloo on: May 4, 2009
I understand it doesn’t make business sense to be on the pay phone industry any more. ATnT pulled out of the pay phone business a few years ago and payphone use is generally on the decline. Everyone’s going wireless and using a cell phone and that’s fine. But even if no one uses a pay phone in the future, I don’t see the benefit of getting rid of them. Pay phones can still serve as privacy booths for cell phone users. If a pay phone is still in use, however, a cell phone user must allow the person who wants to make a pay phone call to use the space instead. I think pay phone booths should be kept because they can still be functional and remind people of how our technology has evolved over time.
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