They had the flooding imagery up for a while, then they switched back to pre-Katrina imagery, and now, judging by the blue tint to many of the roofs, they’ve got post-katrina imagery live.
Archive for the ‘culture’ Category
Google Maps has updated its imagery for New Orleans.
Saturday, August 25th, 2007Henry Raddick: Why I love the Web
Tuesday, November 25th, 2003Here’s one for the beautiful strangeness category. Henry Raddick writes reviews of books for Amazon.com, which, by all rights, shouldn’t be that funny. Trust me, it is. If you know who T. Herman Zweibel is, you must read some of Raddick’s reviews.
City Pages: Cynical, Bitter, Jaded as Hell. Also Naked.
Friday, November 14th, 2003City Pages: Cynical, Bitter, Jaded as Hell. Also Naked.
This is a story from citypages.com about a place where people can meet other people, hang out, make new friends, and be a liberated girl. They can also look damn sexy doing it. The article is a great intro to indie pr0n.
Beautiful Things
Wednesday, February 19th, 2003It’s nice to remember that humans do more than just kill each other. Sometimes they create beautiful things. Thanks Ailina!
What Science Fiction story am I reminded of?
Tuesday, January 7th, 2003Karl Hansen’s WAR GAMES (Playboy Paperbacks; 1981) sounds similar, that’s not it. It was a short story in which the army had stay awake ampules which gave them faster reflexes and better sight, but this guy using them goes crazy.
Do you remember Commodore or Atari or NES? Then you’ll know why I’ve been listening to this all day.