Posts by matt

A Flickr photostream showing more pictures of Sony’s Libri

Why English majors “see developing the moral imagination as more important than securing economic self-justification,” why conversations with mass murderers are often disappointing, why the readers of Snarkmarket are all doomed, and more, in my favorite graduation speech of 2005 so far, by Mark Danner.

Thirty gigabytes on a super-cheap credit-card sized disc? Invented by a company whose English-language site hasn’t been updated since 2002? Gosh, why does this sound so familiar? (Unmediated.)

This is rather tempting, except for the fact that I don’t need it at all. A 200-gigabyte USB 2.0 external hard drive, for only $108. Expires tomorrow.

The New York Times has started up a print column about what’s being discussed in the blogosphere. EPIC gets a brief mention in the first entry.

PS: Sorry, James Fallows. Google’s awesome and everything, but you’re still going to have to actually report.

A peek into the mind of God. A live feed of changes to Wikipedia. (Joshlicious, but also Waxtastic.)

You, the player, using your own name and gender, play the character of a longtime friend of Grace and Trip, an attractive and materially successful couple in their early thirties. During an evening get-together at their apartment that quickly turns ugly, you become entangled in the high-conflict dissolution of Grace and Trip

I wouldn’t keep posting these Google Map hacks if they didn’t keep getting so darn awesome. The ability to customize Google Maps has been around for a few months now. But it has typically involved things like sending requests to various servers via Python proxies and altering XSL stylesheets (i.e. not for the faint of geek).

GMapTrack, on the other hand, looks easy enough for AOL subscribers to use. Look! Surveillance cameras in Vancouver!

Fill out a simple form, and bam — you’ve got a map. Your map nodes can have images, links, captions, etc. The next logical step is either Robin or I actually making a map with one of these things. With this one, I might just try. (Unmediated.)

Word It is a monthly project by the design collaborative Speak Up. Every month, they post a word, and anyone can submit a 5×5″ image illustrating that word. Very simple, yes. Surprisingly absorbing. I think this is my favorite (the word is “pleasure”).

Where do you put a 9-year reminder to yourself? I figure I’ll put this one here, since I’m sure that 9 years down the road, when I’m perusing through the Snarkives as C.O.O. of Snarkmarket, Inc. (and chairman of the board of directors for the Snarkmarket Foundation, natch), I’ll come across this post and say, “Oh yes. I must get on that.”

So — Note to future self: If the Vermont High Court didn’t unseal Howard Dean’s records back in ’05, go to Vermont and dig them up. You may be the only person still curious about what’s in there, but still. It’ll be a nice getaway for you.