Why isn’t anyone doing anything about all the problems? I’m still watering my flowers and hosing off my driveway. Where is the fiber optics in that? How’s superconductivity helping me when my new cotton housedress shrank up to nothing the first time I put it in the dryer?
Month: June 2008
GMM Improvements
Google Maps Mobile is simply not ready for primetime yet.
+1 actually, all blackberry apps i have seen are hopelessly retarded.
Social networking saved New Orleans
In a powerful presentation on the marriage of software tools and crowds of people in desperate need of organization around a cause, Alan Gutierrez of the nonprofit group Think New Orleans detailed an inspiring post-Hurricane Katrina story of how a crash course in social networking helped people emerge from the rubble; find their voice; fight the government; solicit help; and save their neighborhoods, schools and each other.
alan’s projects. including google maps to visualize demolished houses
Google vs Microsoft
The fact that Google is having problems retaining employees isn’t news, Fortune wrote an article about it just a few months ago. The technology press makes it seem like people are ditching Google for hot startups like FriendFeed and Facebook. However the truth is more nuanced than that. Now that Google is just another big software company, lots of people are comparing it to other big software companies like Microsoft and finding it lacking.
dare is tight with the iraqi information minister
War Micromanaging
junior officers like him suddenly find even their routine calls second-guessed. Especially when it turns out that the wounded Iraqis were found near a firefight. Especially when it turns out that Boudreau’s patrol leader on the scene decided to let the pair go, before the medevac copter could arrive.
management by blackberry kills
Metabolomics
data mining metabolism byproducts for health and profit
Save Budweiser
Since 1852 Anheuser-Busch has been an American Owned and operated business. In addition to great tasting beer, this company has provided 1000s of domestic jobs as well as millions of dollars in charitable donations to nonprofit organizations, disaster relief and has a long history of environmental awareness. Recently in the news, talks of a hostile take over of the company have been prevalent. Let’s band together as 1 voice and try to save more than just our beer. We don’t want another American icon turned over to a foreign company; we want the motto to remain…The Great American Lager.
bizarro world
Hanny’s Voorwerp
the curious blue object known as “Hanny’s Voorwerp”, noted in the galaxyzoo.org public-participation census of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
London And Its Dead
10000s of skeletons that lie hidden beneath the streets, houses and offices of London have been revealed for the first time on a map, in a collaboration between the Museum of London and The Times.
2014-06-25:
they fell through the surface of the tennis courts only to find themselves standing in a maze of rotting coffins hidden just beneath the soil, an infernal honeycomb of badly tended graves like something out of Dante.
crazy
Time To Pretend
thanks tobi, that band is alright.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 