Month: June 2007

Fairway Market blog

Like for instance get a load of these garlic towers we got in from fields near Beaumont de Lomagne, a village north of Toulouse. 12 kilos of superlative French garlic braided to resemble a water spout. Never seen anything like it anywhere else in Europe. You don’t, of course, have to buy the whole damn thing, you can just pull off however much garlic you want. But they’d make a very striking centerpiece for a bit over 100 bucks. I got in, what, 70 of them. Kilo braids of Brittany shallots, too. Also got a load of those fabulous macaroons (coco rochers) from that baker in Flanders. Cello sacks, chewy, the best macaroon of my life.

omg. i am rarely inspired by going grocery shopping, but man that place. omg

GML Analysis

Now, I know that Charlie means the Web in terms of the neo-geo fast evolution, collaborative development side of things. Here I would agree that we did not specifically design GML with this group of developers in mind, but by restricting (GML is a swiss army knife) these objectives can be met also – just look at GeoRSS GML if you want simple.

this post has most definitely changed my opinion of ron lake for the better.

Joi Ito on World of Warcraft

Back in the early days of MMORPGs, you met people online who you would play with and they were your friends, but it was cyberspace and real life. Sometimes you had crossovers, but generally you didn’t run into people walking down the street who also played. The difference is with almost 9M players (although 6M are in China) you can now go to a dinner in Silicon Valley or in Berlin and you’ll often find somebody else who plays World of Warcraft. Families play. If you look at the statistics, a huge number of people play who are real-life friends, which is a different than it used to be. So I think that World of Warcraft is similar to what we’ve have been working on for a long time, but it’s a big jump and it’s growing very, very fast. And I think it’s going to grow faster.

Scenic Tours

To start off the Picasa-Maps mashups, I’ve put together an example that combines a Picasa photo album feed with the Map API’s recently announced Driving Directions feature to calculate a driving route that will get you a similar set of photos. Now, no need to be jealous of your friends’ pretty landscape albums – just copy them! Try it out below by clicking “Load Album & Route.”

with a bit of additional hacking, a youtube version of this shouldn’t be too hard.