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rednoodlealien and I were commiserating on dreadful street names, in a conversation about the NYC Map Portal. I grew up on Dickie Avenue, named for Dr. Samuel Dickie, head of the National Prohibition Party for twelve years and a Prohibition … Continue reading
Maps and Legends
I’ve loved maps since I was a little kid, and there are three fascinating new tools to play with: Amazon’s A9 Yellow Pages service now lets you walk around the neighborhood. They drove GPS-enabled trucks around Manhattan and other cities … Continue reading
Visited States
OK, I did it: Next on the list: Mississippi (and Arkansas) if I finally go to the King Biscuit Blues Festival this year, maybe New Mexico, and Missouri if I go to SPAH this year. My visited-countries map is too … Continue reading
Explain one of these to a backpack screener…
What every well-dressed Musaceae is wearing this season.
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Does Tonka Make a Version Of This?
I just had an eight-year-old “Ohmygodlookatthecoolmachine” moment downtown.
Nation-Building As Done By Actual Grownups
In a column headlined “Our Blindness,” Wall Street Journal op-ed columnist Mark Helprin grimly questions our preparedness for handling any of the major challenges facing the U.S. in the 21st century, which he identifies as the rise of China as … Continue reading
LJ Outage
As compensation for the outage, LJ is extending paid subscriptions by two weeks but you have to claim it. Go here: http://www.livejournal.com/misc/claim-2005-01.bml.
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Protected: Now That I Am Dead
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Panix Panic
Panix, perhaps New York City’s oldest Internet service provider (meaning that I don’t think any other company was selling dialup Internet access in NYC in 1991) was largely knocked offline this weekend by a domain-name hijacking. The hijacking meant that … Continue reading
Journal Live Again
LiveJournal’s outage yesterday seems to have been fixed, but not before prompting an avalanche of adolescent snottiness from the Slashdot crowd. Perhaps the funniest comment was one that could have applied to the gamers and geeks on Slashdot as well: … Continue reading