Wikinear is providing a service for your mobile device that will display historic locations in the vicinity marked on a map. It currently grabs the data from Wikipedia, but could theoretically get it from anywhere that has proper geographic coordinates listed. Services like this make complete sense to me, and I cannot wait until they are a ubiquitous part of all mobile devices. It’s so useful to be able to pull our your phone and get the nearest restaurant, ATM, washroom or site of an 18th century brothel.
Archive for March, 2008 Page 2 of 4
There has already been a study to see if Monster cables are better than a bent coat hanger for transmitting our precious video and audio signals, but now we find out why those cables really cost so much. They come from real monsters, that’s how you know they’re good.
A ferry that runs from Sydney, NS, to Port aux Basques, Nfld., is stuck just off the coast of Cape Breton in the ice. The recent storms, and direction of the wind, has really stuffed up the area with ice. The Louis St. Laurent has been diverted from icebreaking duties off Quebec City to free the ferry Caribou from the ice. It should arrive this morning. I have been on the Caribou, making the same passage a few years ago around this time, and it is a fine vessel.
A new show on the CBC, ‘Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister’, will be available online with no DRM. They plan to distribute the show with the BitTorrent protocol. So now when Rogers calls to wonder why you’ve transfered 100GB of data over BitTorrent this month, you can tell them it was because of this great show. I have yet to hear about this show.
Google has added some pretty useful new features to it’s Google Docs platform. You can now show and share your data in some useful new charts, as well as display this auto-updating charts pretty much anywhere.
There have been solutions for sharing music with friends before, but this new program takes the cake for features and simplicity. Available for Mac and *Windows, this will be an interesting application to watch. (*is currently beta, so it only works over a local network currently)
A friend sent me this link for the Toronto band ‘The Wooden Sky’. It’s some decent alt-country.
A pretty funny prank where you can make all the phones in your office ring simultaneously. The only way you’re going to get caught is when you can’t hold in the belly shaking laughs you’ll unleash when you pull it off.
This dog really loves fetching balls.
Walking across a snow covered lake near Parry Sound, Ontario.
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