Archive for July 9th, 2007

A one-off link roundup: 787, ties, blog design, PS3 prices, social networks, cat crack, over-40 pole dancing »

By William M. Hartnett on Jul 9, 2007 in geekery | 6 Comments

Just a few odds and ends that I wanted to get on the record.

Another sweet picture from the 787 roll-out event yesterday. Love the crowd of people to put the size of the plane in context. Look at the size of that Trent 1000!
Jeff Jarvis says enough with the neck ties, already. I’m so with [...]

Aerial imagery in Google Maps: Third best in Palm Beach County and Treasure Coast »

By William M. Hartnett on Jul 9, 2007 in geekery | 0 Comments

While messing around with Flash Earth at work the other day I noticed that Microsoft’s Virtual Earth (or Live Maps, or whatever they’re branding their mapping products) and Ask.com are killing Google Maps when it comes to aerial imagery in Palm Beach, Martin and St. Lucie counties down here in southeast Florida.
Ask.com, for example, appears [...]