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Amazon mapping
“Here’s”:http://www.thepurehands.org/Amazon/ a neat app that maps all of “Amazon.com’s”:http://www.amazon.com/ products visually.
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BBC gets the wrong Guy
The BBC made a “big mistake”:http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=386136&in_page_id=1770&in_page_id=1770 when they accidentally interviewed Congolese immigrant and taxi driver Guy Goma in place of IT expert Guy Kewney on-air last week. The look on the wrong Guy’s face is priceless, but he gamely attempts to answer the questions anyway. Make sure to check out the video–it’s hilarious.
Vast theocon conspiracy?
Right now I’m sitting in the Las Vegas airport waiting to board my flight back to SC. The trip to Utah was great and Elisabeth and I had a great time together and got quite a few of the wedding planning details figured out while I was there. I just came across “This”:http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=email_us&refer=columnist_ferguson&sid=adB63M27SYz4 excellent article… Read More Vast theocon conspiracy?
New google maps feature!
Just in case you ever get lost on “Mars”:http://www.google.com/mars/ . . .
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Lego carrier
Here’s a project by someone with *way* too much time on his hands: “Lego carrier”:http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=126969 It’s pretty cool though.
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Song tapper
“Here’s”:http://www.songtapper.com/s/tappingmain.bin?dotap=1 an interesting applet I found today. It matches a rhythm tapped out on the keyboard to one of over 18000 (!) songs in it’s database. Also, “another page”:http://cgi.sfu.ca/~gpeters/tapper/tapper.cgi with more info on how it works. Apparently it correctly identifies the song or places it in the top 10 possibilities well over 2/3 of the… Read More Song tapper
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Honda commercial
Here’s a cool commercial by Honda: “Honda Accord commercial”:http://www.steelcitysfinest.com/HondaAccordAd.htm It’s absolutely amazing that they were able to pull it off, although considering how many takes and how much cash it took they were bound to get it to work eventually.