Here we go with this week’s Friday Random Ten. Added some good music to the iPod this week so let’s see what we get: Notorious BIG – Juicy Squarepusher – Fat Controller Patty Griffin – Nobody’s Crying Phish – Train Song (8.17.1996) The Thorns – I Told You Valery Gergiev – Lever du jour David [...]
The rich get richer and the poor will be freezing to death. I wish this was surprising. I wish this still made me angry. I wish things were different, but this is George Bush’s America we live in and there’s only one thing the Republican leadership cares about: fealty to their corporate overlords. The AP [...]
It seems like it’s about time to create a Google Maps category here at SkaroffBlog since the interesting links continue to pile up. This one is for all my “peeps” in NYC. onNYTurf presents the Google Map NYC-Subway Hack. One of the more interesting hacks I’ve seen since they overlay the actual routes on the [...]
If you’ve been reading for a while you know I’m both overly impressed and a bit obsessed with Google and its continually expanding treasure trove of new web technologies. I rave about Gmail (ask me for an invite if you’d like an account), and I love to show off Google Maps to anyone who hasn’t [...]
It’s been a while since I did a round of cool and interesting links, so I though I’d throw some stuff out there for y’all. Kos found a great flash applet, courtesy of Arlington, VA’s Newseum, an interactive news museum dedicated to helping the public and media interact and study the ever-valuable and under attack [...]
Via Blinq, another in the continuing saga of GoogleMaps mashups. Grabbing data from gasbuddy and superimposing it on a map, Ahding.com has the Cheap Gas finder. Cheapest gas right now in Philly is only $1.97 at the Hess on Lancaster Ave. I think I paid $2.11 at the Wawa on Aramingo Ave yesterday. In tech [...]
I’ve added my del.icio.us links feed to the sidebar using the WordPress RSS Link List Plugin. If you’re not familiar with delicious (I’ll drop the dots for now) it’s a social bookmarking site. Basically it allows you to store your bookmarks (or Favorites) on the site, as well as tag them based on category, and [...]
some thoughts on reading
Unfortunately all I’ve got to work with is Paint.NET. But I managed to put something ok together and now we’ve got Homer back on the page. Things are starting to fall in place. It’s all happening. G. Love once said “Caught a chill vibe/Orange juice in my ride/Wawa’s to the right/They got a beverage inside.” [...]
LM Players – Lend Me A Tenor, Dramatic Personae. Unbound Spiral: Skype + Podcast Recorder = SkypeCasters. Brainwidth » New York Times to Become Gated Community. I, Cringely – Inflection Point. Paul Krugman – The Chinese Connection. The Churning – Are You an Indie Yuppie? Google Maps Wallpaper.
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