This is what prog-rock classics have come to, is it? Just shoot me now.

I’ve been playing with a fun little mashup between Flickr and Google Maps called geotagging. It actually has wider implications beyond this, into GPS and so on, but the Flickr connection is what drew me in. Let’s say I have a photo on Flickr, like this one:
What I can do is go to a [...]

Image of the Day : Cleveland’s Close-up
Alaska’s newly erupted Cleveland Volcano as photographed from the International Space Station.
Nestled in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, the Cleveland Volcano erupted on May 23,2006 in a short-lived spurt that lasted only two hours.

The Complete List of Losers (full article here)
1. America Online (1989-2006)
2. RealNetworks RealPlayer (1999)
3. Syncronys SoftRAM (1995)
4. Microsoft Windows Millennium (2000)
5. Sony BMG Music CDs (2005)
6. Disney The Lion King CD-ROM (1994)
7. Microsoft Bob (1995)
8. Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (2001)
9. Pressplay and Musicnet (2002)
10. dBASE IV (1988)
11. Priceline Groceries and Gas (2000)
12. PointCast (1996)
13. IBM [...]

fake:
Pjotro – The man with the musical suit
real:
McRorie – One Man Band – Live

ELP Laser Turntable: Plays Vinyl Records without a Needle

For about the price of a new Ford Focus, you can dig out your old copy of Brain Salad Surgery and enjoy it anew, knowing that (thanks to the magic of 21st Century Laser Beams) you’re not causing any additional wear and tear on the vinyl. Or [...]

Another fine canine flick.

Al Gore, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler

Originally uploaded by rgdaniel.

Taking the “Global Warming is Bad” position in the Point – Counter Point portion of SNL’s Weekend Update, former US VP Al Gore. He also opened the show.
(more on Flickr)

“Julian Beever has made pavement drawings for over ten years. He has worked in the U.K., Belgium, France, The Netherlands, Germany, the USA and Australia.” Among the pavement drawings displayed on his site are these “anamorphic illusions drawn in a special distortion in order to create an impression of 3 dimensions when seen from one [...]