Month: November 2007

LIRR FOIA

We are suing the Long Island Rail Road because they have failed to comply with the Freedom Of Information Law, rejecting our request for their schedule data in a digital table format. 3 times we have asked for LIRR’s schedule information in this format, and 3 times they have denied our request. For such a simple and easy request their obstinance is confounding. So now my lawyers and I are taking them to court to MAKE them give it to us.

the problem with FOIA is that agencies can respond with crap like “here are our schedules in pdf, have fun”

-My- Our Maps

-My- Our Maps collaborative editing comes to mymaps

Google HS OSS

the summer of code is coming to high schools

Importing KML and GeoRSS

To import a KML file, create a new map and click the Import link. You’ll be able to upload a file from your desktop, or enter the URL of a file on the web. We’ll import all of the data from that file into your map for online access and editing

Verizon Opens Network

Verizon Wireless is opening up its cellular network to any device or application that meets the “minimal technical standard” to run on its network. That means pretty much any CDMA device or application, even ones that are not officially offered by Verizon.

telepocalypse at work

Forex Trading Game

eToro lets users practice play, or deposit funds for real money trading. The currencies available to trade are the US Dollar, British Pound, Australian Dollar, the Euro and the Japanese Yen. This is where it gets fun… There are 4 games to choose from: Forex Marathon – You pick the currency you think will go up and have it compete in a foot race against the currencies you think will go down.

very banking 2015

Validator.nu

interesting relax ng based validator. maybe something to explore for KML? (instead of the abomination that is XSD)

Google Coupons

Google Coupons now offers the ability to return Coupons in your main search results via the Google Co-op. When you select the above button from Google Coupon search you will be asked to log in and taken to this page at Google Co-op beta for a subscription confirmation

have to try this

Guerrilla Clockmakers

It seems a team of clockmakers broke into the Pantheon in Paris in September 2005 and spent 1 year fixing the historic and neglected clock, which had been abandoned by the authorities. They were prosecuted for breaking in, but have just been cleared of the charges in court. The group, “Untergunther” have a catalogue of subterranean lo-jinks to their name.” Klausmann and his crew are connaisseurs of the Parisian underworld. Since the 1990s they have restored crypts, staged readings and plays in monuments at night, and organised rock concerts in quarries. The network was unknown to the authorities until 2004, when the police discovered an underground cinema, complete with bar and restaurant, under the Seine. They have tried to track them down ever since.

the same crew that ran a cinema in the paris underground

Our Dumb World

Click on the Onion pins scattered around the globe to reveal mind-expanding factoids about the lesser, conquerable nations of the Earth. Come back each week to learn more about how little you know.

the onion now as mashup, or kml layer. up to you.