Archive for December, 2008

Best video that unintentionally illustrates what working at a newspaper feels like on most days I’ve ever posted »

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Paper View Monday: The Tennessean of Nashville, Tennessee »

This week’s newspaper building as seen in Virtual Earth/Live Search Maps is The Tennessean. Mash your mouse on the picture below to fiddle with the map.

And in Google Maps Street View:
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Florida Home 96: 2008-12-27, Villaggio, west of Lake Worth »

The neighborhood of the week real estate feature is about Villaggio west of Lake Worth.
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Random picture of my cat, Vol. 97 »

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Paper View Monday: The Vancouver Sun and The Province »

This week’s newspaper building as seen in Virtual Earth/Live Search Maps is home to The Vancouver Sun and The Province. Fact: Vancouver is in Canadaland, a foreign country, which makes this only the third edition of Paper View Monday to feature a newspaper outside the United States, which makes me very worldly. Mash your mouse [...]

Florida Home 95: 2008-12-20, Valencia Pointe, west of Boynton Beach »

The neighborhood of the week real estate feature is about Valencia Pointe west of Boynton Beach.
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Random picture of my cat, Vol. 96 »

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I will now introduce you to Boxy the Snowman »

I made this tonight. At work. It was late. Also, quite frankly, the refrigerators were just asking for it. Some suggested lyrics for the inevitable Christmas carol:
Boxy the Snowman
Was a jolly happy stack of soulless office equipment
With a pipe I’ve yet to make and an orange highlighter nose
And two perfectly round eyes drawn with a [...]

links for 2008-12-17 »

Redfin Moves the Earth - Redfin Developers' Blog
Old post from January 2007 when Redfin originally switched to Virtual Earth as its mapping platform.
(tags: googlemaps mapping virtual-earth real-estate redfin)

A Virtual Earth to Google Maps Transition: From Idea to Deployment In a Few Weeks - Redfin Developers’ Blog
"After my weekend code-a-thon, I put the GMaps prototype up [...]

I will now bring you a glimpse inside The Burt Reynolds & Friends Museum »

We finally visited The Burt Reynolds & Friends Museum down the street from our house in Jupiter, Florida this weekend. (See it on the map here.) Admission is only $5, which is a small price to pay for the legitimately fascinating journey, via photographs and mementos, through the career of a man who has appeared [...]