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Random thoughts
- A pretty significant alliance between the US and India. You would think that this would be much bigger news, especially given the rivalry between India and Pakistan and India and China.
- Convictions in the East St Louis voter fraud trial – no surprise there really (it was all on tape). That also should have been much bigger news.
- In South Korea (the most web connected country in the world), a woman doesn’t clean up after her dog and achieves blog infamy within one day. Start the link chain here.
- The Rhode Island Legislature has voted to legalize medical marijuana, without even the pressure of a voter initiative. One wonder when principal-agent theory becomes something the media talks about.
- Free Individualist Stickers – I’m pleasantly surprised by the move to brevity in bumper stickers as seen in the gold and blue “=” stickers one can see on cars in my neighborhood. The guy linked is giving out free “i” stickers (for individualism). Judging from his blog he’s a Randian of some sort and a fellow IHS seminar attendee.
- Exposure Manager (run by a Winds of Change blogger apparently) is offering a deal to Instapundit readers.
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More sights on the ride
I rode by the place I talked about in this post, and found that the wheelchair had been moved and that the Terminator 2 object in the back wasn’t a poster at all, but one of several abandoned video game machines. Pictures below.
And I’m going to experiment with allowing anonymous commenting. Is anyone actually reading this?
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GMaps at last
As promised yesterday, here is my first experiment with GMaps.On the whole, I like the technology. It does a lot of the work for you in terms of plotting and it works off on an external xml file. The only real downside is that it does not use actual address information, only latitude and longitude coordinates. There are a number of free lookup services online, I used GeoCoder.us which worked very well, still it’s an extra, probably unnecessary step.
I’ll look around and see if there is some automated process out there which does automatic conversions and reports back.
On the whole though, a very good and easy proof of concept.
With no further ado, here My Week So Far
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North Atlanta Goodness
I went up to Eric’s last night to pick a little, we wind up going to Eckerd’s to get some cold Medicine for his wife, and of course, I see this
It’s for dry, cracked hands evidently.
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At long last
Google has just released their API for Google Maps! First Google Earth, now this. Google really is an awe-inspiring company. Look for a week in the life of Steve very soon.
And as I’m writing this, Mike just sent me a link to it.
And for those of you following the screw-you homeowner Kelo Supreme court ruling, check out Hotel Lost Liberty.
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Wednesday rapid fire
- A post well worth reading at Asymetrical Information
- Solar Drone New Endurance Champ
- Orwell on Fascism
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Interesting
Sadly, it seems that PBS will be fully funded, here is what the executives make.
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Google Earth is staggering
Google Earth was released today and I’m blown away. Basically it’s a free version of their KeyHole software, but with incredible capabilities. Skylines, tilting and foreign cities, it’s all just staggering.
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The winner for weirdness
From an interview with female Palestinian suicide bomber
According to the Koran, male martyrs are welcomed to Paradise by 72 beautiful virgins. Ayat, as with many of the women she is incarcerated with, believes that a woman martyr “will be the chief of the 72 virgins, the fairest of the fair”.
From the Telegraph UK.
Second class even in the afterlife.
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More Ajax Links
Google-xjaxslt via the Google Blog.