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First up, a cool story about how Library of Congress archivists ‘crowdsourced’ an image of downtown Brockton to obtain more information about the picture. Apparently, the Library’s flickr set contains all sorts of New England images in need of metadata. For more photographic goodness, see Google’s collection of pictures from Life magazine, many previously unreleased [...] The Gelaskin I mentioned buying several months ago for my laptop. I really like this one, probably because of the the kind of retro, steam-punk look to the robot. I was less-pleased with the skin I got for my iPod, but it is servicable. This could turn out to be very handy: an application that allows you to download music from a friend’s iTunes library. Still in beta for Windows though. After a little more than two years, my iPod has given up the ghost. I’m trying to decide whether I should just buy a new one, or get install a new hard drive to try and resurrect the old one. I’ve followed Heather’s lead and created my own wist, though it at present it is very short. A list of the podcasts to which I currently subscribe: [...] This is awesome: Google Maps has a new feature that allows you to create and share annotated maps – just select the ‘My Maps’ tab to get started. Monster Sightings is pretty funny, and America’s Highway: Oral Histories of Route 66 is just flat out awesome. Obviously there’s a lot of things you can do [...] Just a leetle bit more with the reference madness this morning. Encyclopaedia Britannica, the grand old man of encyclopedias, has all its content available online… for a fee. But there are some pretty cool features there that are free. [...] Today’s post is going to be all about cool things concerning the information chase, with me dropping some links and generally babbling some things I find fascinating. Feel free to pass this one by if the above doesn’t sound like your cup of tea… [...] I’ve finally learned what ails me: Nerd Attention Deficiency Disorder (the fancy diagnosis for ‘information junkie.’) Fellow moonshiner Thurmond Brown explained some years back about how terrifying it was to ride with Junior when he was going full song on the highways of North Carolina. “Junior and me was comin’ back through Winston-Salem once at about 3 o’clock in the morning after unloading a load, and hell, he was just drivin’ [...] |
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