Yahoo announced FireEagle yesterday, a set of twin APIs for letting you send information about your current location and for letting other applications consume that information at various levels of granularity. The announcement below is worth your time if you’re interested in this sort of stuff.
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read moreRemember that movie where Clint Eastwood plays a fighter pilot? Yeah, me neither:
It even inspired a decent comment on YouTube:
… it’s fun to pretend he’s playing the same character as in Firefox. Why wouldn’t they give the job of stealing a Soviet superplane …read more
UPS letting me know my Rock Band pedal is out for delivery even though EA claims it still hasn’t shipped + a slab of Grateful Dead tracks. Along the same lines, this story made me smile as well, though I wonder if such a manager ever existed. It’s …
read moreI can see where this would make a person suicidal. For the last few weeks, I’ve felt I must have shirked my duties this winter. Judging by the driveways, the house, the road, winter has been winning. We’ve spent the last two weekends trying to dig out …
read moreInteresting to me for the bits they discovered in well-known songs’ master tracks:
Even a seminal punk band like the Clash yielded some surprises. Even wonder why the drums sound so good on “I Fought the Law”? Because there’s two drummers on it (or more …read more