William M. Hartnett

Good question, Danny. Someone at work was having projection problems just the other day. Should have started them off with this. (Via the Virtual Earth/Live Maps blog)

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Brilliant. Bit naughty, though.

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According to Mark Stephens, a.k.a Robert X. Cringely, “3G iPhones are AT THIS MOMENT being tested in Florida by AT&T.” O RLY? Better watch your back, alleged 3G iPhone testers somewhere in Florida, because I know people who WILL TACKLE YOU for that mofo. I’m just sayin’.

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> Our Daily Bread; Newspapers keep cutting staff, but Jake Jab’s American Furniture Warehouse is standing by them. Why? (Denver Westword)
(Via Romenesko)
Denver furniture store and mega-advertiser says print advertising still works for them because readers can’t filter it out, as can be done easily with DVRs for television spots and, presumably, ad-blockers online. Fair [...]

Many, many months before I owned a single piece of furniture after graduating from college, I plunked down serious plastic for a fairly dear Giant road bike and an even more expensive, and even harder to justify, Specialized mountain bike. But to properly, if belatedly, celebrate this year’s wide-open, favorite-less Tour de France, only one [...]

Mark Schaver just earned my eternal gratitude for introducing me to Ian McKellar’s LOL Feeds, which generates cat macros from any feed you care to try. You really must see its awesomeness to believe its awesomeness. How have I not seen this before?
Here is this site’s LOLified feed, which is OK. My wife’s site feed [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I watched the entire 787 roll-out extravaganza in Everett live online, that’s how big of an aviation geek I am. And it was awesome. Totally awesome. Check out the first photo of N787BA in Boeing house colors to be entered in the Airliners.net database. As cool as it will be to see the Airbus A380 [...]

No punchline here. I really am wondering what to do with 38 brand new light bulbs when they’re of the old fashioned, incandescent variety? Like all good superficially eco-sensitive Americans, my wife and I replaced all the barely used bulbs in the new house the other day with compact fluorescent lights. Now I have a [...]