Decisions, Decisions!

Ever since it's official birth, Internet has been helping and facilitating people's lives. It has simplified interpersonal communication. It has accumulated, organized and distributed colossal information, changed habit of shopping, travel and offered countless alternative ways and means of conventional duties and activities. Now, for better or for worst, it can apparently even help us to avoid having to think or make decisions!

For those any decision making is a pain or torture, the ones who never seem able to choose an option when presented with more than one, and for all those indecisive of the world, Hunch.com is born, a web site that makes decisions for you. With less than 10 questions it can help with thousands of critical situations like what career to pursuit, which country to move to, including matters less critical like where to have the most romantic dinner ... Their data base has listed decisions on 2,400 subject matters.

Hunch.com functions with a series of algorithms which select questions leading to the most correct and well thought out answers. Or select answers on the base that the system already knows, and the last group is to determine what your level and taste is that will condition the type of result, based on the information you supply. The founder creator of this site is Caterina Fake(!) of Flickr, the web photo base.

It's not a matter of random chance or esoteric doctrine. The web studies and learns the user's personal taste and preference. In each situation, you are given a series of simple but precise questions to reach a logical conclusion. For instance, from a question: "Should I go to the gymnasium?" the web requires some data like 'Are you injured? Do you wish to lose weight? Are you often tired? From the information you give, they will reach a conclusion based on the common sense of the programmers.

Personally, I might play with the on-line Agony Aunt for a few minutes if I have nothing better to do. Any doubts about anything important or serious I will keep to myself, or let my brain cells exercise overtime for a day or two. If I still can't resolve it or reach any decision, I will blame it on destiny! It wouldn't be the first time nor would it be the last.

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Flying Cows & Floating Shoes ...

Do you need a pair of 'floating' shoes that would let you walk above the water? Or an 'Airbike' equipped with a system that permits you to vary the pressure on your tyres, at will and while you are on the more, so that you can ride on all sorts of surfaces? Or carrots that taste like pizza to save you calories, or apples that taste like chocolate biscuits? Something you would probably be quite happy to have handy, the 'Liquor Off'', a natural drink that would combat the after effect of alcohol, getting rid of the day-after headaches. All that and much more are shown in the International Fair of Ideas & Inventions in Attic of Vilanova & la Geltru, Spain. The Hidrohibrid, an electronic system that injects milidrips of distilled water in the interior of the motor of a car, it saves fuel and does not conteminate, according to the inventor. Seat has already shown great interest in this. New ideas are certainly plentiful, even including 'ecological panties' for dogs so that they can go anywhere without the owners having to pick-up after them, and the streets are left much cleaner. But for this purpose there's rivelry, or competition, with another inventor having just patented his 'Paracacas' (very clear and to the point, meaning 'for doggie poo'), an automatic 'umbrella' with a plastic bag incorporated, to pick up the dog deposit quickly and without messy handling. No idea how big the business deal is between Seat and the Hidrohibrid, but the Liquor Off is apparently selling like hot cakes. And, if you are still wondering about the flying cow, so am I. As far as I know, nobody has invented that, just the funny picture of a cow with wings on the publicity poster, eye catching idea of the advertising department. Tags:flyingcow,floatingshoe,doggiepoo

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The First Gondoliera Of Venice

I saw a beautiful and very romantic scene of Venice today, and I suddenly remember the news of the first official female Gondoliera. She was Giorgia Boscolo, then 23 years old. She was in the news a few years ago because she had just passed the very strict admission exam to what's considered a profession exclusively for the male during the last nine centuries. She had to attend the official classes and after that the determining final exam. Meanwhile she could row the gondola as 'substitute Gondoliero' only. Another woman, Alexandra Hai worked as gondoliers since 2007, during that period she had to resort to the Tribunal Court 3 times, against suspicious and ungrounded suspension. She works in a hotel, never got the title of Gondoliera. I can never understand why certain professions are only for male and others are for just for female, if both sexes are capable of doing the job mentally, physically and with the same qualifications and competence. Tags:Venice,gondoliera

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