If you were stranded on a desert island and had internet access but could only log on to one website only, which site would you choose?
Would you go for FaceBook so that you could stay connected with the rest of the world? Or maybe you would rather choose Twitter? Would you rather have email so that you could email people you know even if they are not on FaceBook or Twitter? You could also talk people into sending you web pages in zipped files so you could browse everything else.
Wikipedia strikes me as a smart choice too, you could use the time to read and learn so many new things and you could still reach out to people by creating your own wiki entry and updating it and letting your friends update it too. Would you rather blog?
Maybe you would prefer access to a voice chatting service and do with the ability to talk to people and hear them talk? An internet TV service or YouTube might be your choice. It all depends on who you are and what you need?
What would be your choice of internet access? A laptop? A phone? An internet tablet? Supposing you had a camera would you post a thousand pictures of yourself and island? Maybe hugging the palm trees? One with you in the sand, another one of you and the sea, the possibilities are endless.
Would you be so brave and choose not to be connected at all and take a book and some paper and a pen? You could write that best selling novel you have always been dreaming to write. Create a new philosophy and write it down.
What would you choose?
“No man
is
an island
entire of itself;
every man
is a piece
of the continent, a
part of the main.” John Donne
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I wasn’t lazy the last few days I was just challenged into finding a solution for my Polyvore addiction. If you don’t know what Polyvore is, then you really should just go and experience it for yourself. It is a site which lets you mix and match items of clothing into “sets” and outfits. You can also browse other people’s sets and steal their ideas for your wardrobe.
I am not much of a shopping person or even a fashion person, but I do like to look presentable, elegant and chic. Oh I really do wish I had one of those Jetson wardrobes where I could clickety click, try different outfits on and just click and be done. Well Polyvore is halfway there because you get to look at the different peices together. Their next step should be 3 dimensional imaging on your body (a girl can dream).
I also love the groups because no matter what, one person will always have a certain style and the whole idea is to be able to see different styles by different people. My favorite group is Muslim Attire, because with the hijab it is sometimes not so easy to find inspiration. The only problem was there is no rss feed for the groups and you have to go every once in a while and check them out. Well it is not really a problem, but I am a lazy person and a forgetfull one, left to chance I would probably totally forget about it in a couple of days time and just stop looking and go back to wearing my jeans, t-shirt and flip flops happily.
I needed those Polyvore sets to come to me, I even tried some voodoo on them but no they would not listen. So I remembered Yahoo!Pipes, which helps you build your own feeds among so many other things. I love a good challenge, once challenged I rarely if ever back down until I find a solution to the problem being faced. They are now happily flying to my Google Reader.
So I proudly present to you a feed to Muslim Attire. If you are interested in other groups just go to the pipe and enter the group ID (if you look up at the url when you are in the group page it is the xxxx in id=xxxx).
The interesting thing is that the creator of Polyvore is also one of the creators of Yahoo!Pipes.
Enjoy, now I am off to do some more browsing.
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