Google launched “My Maps” this week and it seems to be all over the place. It’s a fun, addictive little toy; a nice addition to their already pretty awesome map system. Brady Forrest called it “a direct shot across the bow of sites like Platial and Frappr” — and while I don’t necessarily agree with […]
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The plane is the size of a child’s toy but it will transport you across great distances. Just grab it around the fuselage (pinching it is best) just like a child would and mime the take-off routine. Suddenly you will find yourself inside, soaring high above the Earth in Soviet-era luxury. You are the Commandant, […]
If We Taught English the Way We Teach Mathematics… via kuro5hin.org: “…because mathematics, as the art of abstraction, provides us the with ability to make simple statements that have incredibly broad application. For example, the reason that numbers and arithmetic are so unreasonably effective is that (tags: essay language education math research)
A. and I are driving down a road. It’s a dirt road headed through a tangle of trees but it’s also a side-street of this town’s major thoroughfare. We’re headed into the neighborhood where we live. We pull up to a stop sign and I check both ways. In my rearview mirror I see someone […]
We’re assembling bombs from materials we’ve picked up at the grocery store. The plastique and blasting caps and timers and wires and napalm are arranged in barrels like they use for the bulk foods aisle at food co-ops. The plastique is in an array of neon and pastel colors. We mold them into little rabbits […]
The Once and Future Republic of Vermont by Ian Baldwin & Frank Bryan (via ozgallagher): The winds of secession are blowing in the Green Mountain State. (tags: Vermont secession essay politics research todo history) Functional JavaScript Lisp? Scheme? Erlang, Haskell? Forget about them! The most widely deployed functional programming language is Javascript. Borrowing a trick […]
A. & I & Creighton made it out to Higher Ground last night for the Cold War Kids/Tokyo Police Club show. First show for A. & I in quite some time… Good stuff overall. I believe Creighton said it best when he remarked that the theme of the night seemed to be hollow body guitars, […]
Back in January, we put forth a few personal goals for 2007. Let’s see where we stand, eh? Write another draft of my novel. We’d written this up as “another draft of at least 80,000 words with at least 40,000 words worth of new material.” To date, I’ve written 6,475 words. Maybe 3,500 of those […]