Archive for the ‘culture’ Category

Google Maps has updated its imagery for New Orleans.

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

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.

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Henry Raddick: Why I love the Web

Tuesday, November 25th, 2003

Here’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, 2003

City 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, 2003

It’s nice to remember that humans do more than just kill each other. Sometimes they create beautiful things. Thanks Ailina!

K is for Kompressor

Monday, February 17th, 2003

K is for Kompressor - Cookie Monster meets Einsturzende Neubaten. Cute and fuzzy in an goofy industrial sort of way.

What Science Fiction story am I reminded of?

Tuesday, January 7th, 2003

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Karl 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.