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Integrated Images and Wikipedia entries in Google Maps

Visual Browsing with Google Maps

I often daydream by looking at maps, wondering what places look like up close, what it would be like to visit. Web search has existed primarily as a textual experience since my first use of it in 1994 at MSU. I remember using Netscape and a MAC in a computer [...]

iPod Nano stolen, 12 chiba vat grown ninja assassins are looking for it

For two short weeks I was the proud owner of an 8 Gig iPod Nano third generation. I loaded music on it, and merrily listened to it through an FM tuner adapter in my old volvo. Dec 26th, while carrying my sleeping seven year old daughter into the house, I stupidly forgot to go back [...]

Spook Country Review, second watered tea

Out of all of William Gibson’s Novels, Spook Country is the least evocative. A lot of Gibson’s now all too common critics read and loved Neuromancer for its impenetrable descriptions of the ephemeral and then unknowable internet, (or cyberspace), the vague chic of apathetic criminal characters, and the all too potent tincture of drugs, [...]

Somewhere over the rainbow?

My Macbook Pro

I think William Gibson beat me to the punch by posting this on his blog before me. I had to post this though, as I think my ideal writing machine cannot be celebrated enough. Steve Jobs eat your heart out, I want one of these beauties. It is an actual working laptop! This Japanese [...]

High Fidelity

Top 5 reasons to paddle.
Ok these are my thoughts on the subject and are somewhat didactic and maybe even contradictory.


1. Paddling is linear and analog. Very few things are these days. It gives no regard to hurry, or any other timetable other than wind, sun, moon, and stars. Like Peter Fonda in Easy [...]