If you read Paul Graham’s Essays, check out a parody of his writings called Taste For The Web. It’s done so well that it actually took me until halfway through the article to realize it was a parody.
The parody led me to Google Maps, which I hadn’t seen before. It’s rough around the edges, but really nice. Here’s what comes up if you search for all of my remote office locations near my apartment with the query: “starbucks near paulina and chicago, chicago”. Try zooming in and panning around — it’s hands down the nicest interface I’ve seen for maps on the web.
A few quality pieces of media I’ve encountered lately:
- Richard Feynman’s Nova Interview. If you have any interest in science you owe it to yourself to watch this.
- PBS’s Evolution Series
- Dancing Naked In The Mind Field by Kary Mullis
And speaking of science, I’d been tempted to subscribe to New Scientist for years but was put off by the subscription price. I finally went ahead and got a subscription for myself for Christmas and am so happy I did. I’ve never looked forward to having a magazine arrive every week before, but I look forward every week to this one.
You’d never seen Yahoo Maps??! Prepare to have your mind blown:
http://maps.google.com/
D’oh! Actually it was Google Maps — somehow I managed to get confused and the first link pointed to yahoo maps and the second to google maps. Thanks man! Yeah, it’s pretty mindblowing stuff — amazing to see the progress Google is making in all sorts of places.