Obscurorant 2.0

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:

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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 with this tool. My first impulse is to create a guide was to create an annotated guide to the eateries and saloons of Q-town -maybe I’ll actually get round to doing it. In the meantime, I should point out some sites that had similar notions about using Google Maps:

Thursday Club - “cool bars and cocktail lounges from around the world.”

Beermapping.com - “breweries and bars across the U.S.”

ToEat.com - self explanatory

You can find more Google Map sites here.

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.

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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…

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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’ sideways. And them little old mailboxes and newspaper boxes, well, Junior was justa clippin’ by those things right beside my face. I said, Junior, you’re gonna have the law on you. And it made him about half-mad, I believe. He said, ‘If we can’t outrun ‘em empty, what the hell are we a-doin’ down here loaded?’ (more…)