Entries for week beginning March 8, 2009
➠ March 14, 2009
➠ March 13, 2009
foursquare
Another friend-location-tracking app, this one from the original makers of Dodgeball. The website is fairly bare-bones at the moment, although the iPhone app is pretty decent.
Gowalla. A location-based iPhone game.
Was wondering when one of these would show up. Virtual geo-caching using the iPhone’s location facilities. Designed by the folks behind the Facebook “Packrat” game. (SF and Austin only at the moment)
➠ March 12, 2009
BBC NEWS | How to understand risk in 13 clicks
Handy explanation of one of the most common statistical tricks.
CD Purchase: Brighton Port Authority - I Think We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat
The other day, I was thinking "It's been a while since there was a new Fatboy Slim album." As it turns out, Norman Cook and Simon Thornton have assumed another pseudonym and released this album, which is top-notch.
➠ March 11, 2009
Channel 4 News - Cramer v Stewart
Slow news day in the UK, clearly. Channel 4 News covers the Jon Stewart / Jim Cramer kerfuffle.
➠ March 10, 2009
➠ March 9, 2009
➠ March 8, 2009
Dr. R. S. Candle PhD pets Clyde
Joy practices her puppetering on an uninterested audience
Joy is performing the The Un-Scripted Theater Company in their current show, Un-Scripted: unscripted, and they like to introduce puppets into scenes, so she's practicing with my Muppet Whatnot.
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