When I was a kid I loved playing with Legos. I probably played with them every single day. Perhaps that’s why I wanted to be an architect when I was younger. I don’t know how many sets I had but they kept adding up. I had a Lego bag exactly like this one I found [...]
I let Maegan stay up late tonight to see the total lunar eclipse. The weather was perfect; cool but there wasn’t a cloud anywhere in the sky. We went outside just after the shadow would be obvious at 9pm (when she would normally be in bed already) and looked at the moon through binoculars. Then [...]
I’ve previously blogged about my historic 1946 Town of Huntington Planning Map. Today I learned about Yahoo’s new Map Mixer application, which overlays uploaded maps over the ones found on Yahoo. Naturally I tried it out with my 1946 map to share with others. Aside from progress in general, it’s pretty cool to fiddle with [...]
Last weekend my sister Amy went away to an adult sleep away camp. How awesome does that sound? This one she went to is called Club Getaway and it’s located in the Berkshire Mountains in western Connecticut. I did archery for the first time since [Camp] Norwich!!! I also went hiking, mountain biking, kayaking, waterskiing, [...]
Picasa Web Albums recently introduced a cool new feature where you can map the locations of your photos. I’ve been testing it out on a few photos, but I won’t add locations to photos taken at my house. Too much information.
Not long after Google Maps and Google Earth were introduced, people began searching for interesting shots that were accidentally captured by the overhead imagery. These include everything from catching a mid-air military plane refueling in California to an in-progress Major League Baseball game in Philadelphia. So it was no surprise that after Google introduced their [...]
We’re planning to take a trip soon. Since we’ll be on highways far away from populated areas around lunchtime I was trying to determine where we may find some descent places to stop for a quick bite along the way. I came across this cool map mashup called fastfoodmaps.com. It shows the location of major [...]
Here’s another example of why Google is a such cool company. They like to have fun. Google Earth just announced a virtual world-wide scavenger hunt. The premise of this search is that Santa’s elves have left presents all around the globe and if you visit the North Pole you’ll find a clue at Santa’s workshop. [...]
Where’s George? is an interesting “activity” where you track your dollar bills online to see where the money you spend eventually ends up. You don’t know everywhere the bill has traveled – only locations where somebody took the time to enter the bill’s serial number on the website. I tried it myself last year after [...]
Imagine if the fictionally warped world of M.C. Escher was taken off the flat easel that makes his illusions possible, and thust into the real 3D world? Now throw in some busy city sidewalks and a bucket of street chalk and you’ve got the work of a European artist named Julian Beever. Beever creates chalk [...]