Maps.Google.Com is in Beta.
Wow… Wow… Wow…
Grab the map with your mouse, drag it around. Point at stuff and zoom in. Find your ‘hood, and then ask for Wifi in the area. Donuts. Computer stores. Goldfish. Pop-up ballons showing addresses that cast shadows on the map
It’s like the Sims2, only with Live Data (and less time to figure out what colour hair you want).
Crazy.
Go Google it now
and you can Click Here to see where I work.
The day they beta an Office suite that includes connectivity to MSExchange, I’m uninstalling MSOffice at home.
(No, not really.)
Posted on February 7th 2005 in
Hardware
Via Boing-Boing
Nicholas Negroponte, chairman and founder of MIT’s Media Labs, says he is developing a laptop PC that will go on sale for less than $100. He told the BBC World Service programme Go Digital he hoped it would become an education tool in developing countries. He said one laptop per child could be ” very important to the development of not just that child but now the whole family, village and neighbourhood”. He said the child could use the laptop like a text book. He described the device as a stripped down laptop, which would run a Linux-based operating system,
{and then Negroponte requested “Please start a sentence with something other than he.”
Check out the story Here
Posted on February 7th 2005 in
Software
Some very strange art & cards.
Not safe for work (strong language).
Not safe for sending to friends, either. :)
Posted on February 7th 2005 in
People
