Via the Google Earth Blog. Seeing this movie is on my ToDon’t list, but this is still too cool. Just hit the Drive the Van button and off you go (provided you’re on Windows or Mac with the Google Earth plugin). Send the
First up in this week’s Make Smarter comes via Download Squad and is a free, interactive book called Eloquent JavaScript. It’s targeted at the beginning programmer, but there’s enough in there to keep most folks entertai
I use Google Maps often. I’ve created a handful of mashups with it. And I’m a certified GIS Savant © for pete’s sake*. But I didn’t know about a number of things in Lifehacker’s Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know Google
Beaver dam that is. Via Slashdot, a group of beaver families in Alberta, Canada created a dam so large it’s visible from space. (It’s the top-of-a-heart shape.) The dam is 2,790 feet in length and took several beaver fa
First up in this month’s news roundup is the addition of Google Earth (or the Google Earth plugin to be precise) to Google Maps. I’m surprised it took this long to integrate the two, but cool beans nonetheless. Now they
CNET has an interesting piece based on some Forrester research. It’s a brief article so I won’t rehash the whole thing here, but the conclusion is that as developer shops turn over and younger developers move in .NET and
Google has been on a anti-censorship tear since getting highly pissed at China over an alleged hacking incident. The latest salvo is a map showing the details of government requests for either data takedowns or for infor
PC performance is all about bottlenecks - understanding what they are and how to address them. I see people throw money at the wrong stuff all the time. CPU’s and video cards have hit a place where unless you are a hardc
This month’s make smarter is so chock-full of goodies, it’s a wonder I’m not significantly smarter than I is am. First up is a 5 part series on JavaScript by Doug Crockford, who may know more about JavaScript than anyone
After seeing a dozen or more stories about OpenAddresses.org, I finally carved out some time to take a look. They have a blog post describing how the project formed and where they hope it leads. There are still some wrin