I revamped The Last Minute Zeitgeist Thingy today.
The site gathers RSS feeds from several sources to bring you the most interesting stuff from the blogosphere and the internets. It helps you find new things to read/learn/blog/waste your time on. It updates every 30 minutes and it’s pretty slow to load so give it a sec.
UPDATE: This no longer exists…
What in the God Damn: Anger is a gift:
"Now this little video is really something: Chelios talking about his old coach (Samuel Jackson). Now that’s good anger!!"
This video is brought to you by a very angry drunken ninja. Classic.
SeatGuru.com – Your Enlightened Guide to Airplane Seating.
SeatGuru.com, the ultimate source for airplane seating and in-flight services information.
• Do you want a seat with extra legroom? A seat with a non-restricted recline? A seat that is extra quiet?
• Would you like to compare the First Class, Business Class and Coach Class seat pitch and seat width of different airline carriers?
• Are you traveling for business and need to know which airplanes have laptop power at your seat and what type of adapter you’ll need?
• Have a long flight and want to know what type of in-flight entertainment is featured on your flight and what movies are playing this month?
Why didn’t I know about this sooner?
I wish I had this Home Theatre PC Guide [via] when I was putting together my little HTPC/PVR. This guide pretty much gives you everything you need to know to put together your own wannabe TIVO. All you need is a an old computer, some software and a TV tuner.
Since I’ve had my PVR, my television viewing experience has been much better. It’s pretty sweet to be able to watch any of your favorite shows whenever you want.
The only problem with my PVR is that the codec acts a little weird now and then. It gets all jacked like digital cable does when you change channels.
My pvr was on BYOPVR.com today.
Go on a tour of interesting things to look at from space: Google Sightseeing. [via]
Yesterday I found myself emailing satellite images that I found on Google Maps to my family. I was sending images of the places we used to live and hang out etc. It was like a little virtual tour down memory lane for me. Tonight I can’t sleep. I was lying awake so long thinking about this so long that I thought I’d post about it instead of just lying there. By the time I’m done this I’ll be able to sleep…
I can remember being blown away that satellites had like 2 meter resolution when I was first learning about satellites. I can remember looking into the sky and wondering if someone was looking back. I used to look through the skylights (or windows on the ceiling) and thinking about it. Now courtesy of Google I’m the one looking down. Its a very different perspective. That back yard that used to seem impossibly huge when mowing the lawn now appears quite minuscule.
Now that it’s as easy as Google to find satellite images (of North America) it got me thinking about the idea of allowing people to annotate the images ala Flickr Notes style. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could post a note saying hey that’s my house! Or I went to school here from Grades 1-3! Obviously this would get out of hand quickly but I think its quite interesting because it would be like a place to put our collective memories.
So as an exercise I went looking on Flickr and what do you know!? There’s already a Flickr group called Memory Maps.
Does my family want to post some notes and get in on a little collective memory? Click the image below and go see some things we used to do in my little town.
Matt Haughey seems to have the same idea.
Look at these pics he found:
Burning Man Camp
Honolulu
Cool Boat
Here are some other cool images:
Canada:
CN Tower Toronto
Parliament Buildings Ottawa
United States:
Golden Gate Bridge San Francisco
World Trade Center New York
Hmm… Can you guess this one? (notice some censored parts)
Why no censoring here?
US – Mexican border (San Diego / Tijuana)
Grand Canyon (I think)
The Getty Los Angeles
In honor of the passing of his Holiness I present: Breakdancing for the Pope. (2 MB .mov) You can see how the Pope enjoys these dudes bustin moves. Not sure who shot the original clip bit I found it: [via] [via] [via]… I ganked it and dumped some tunes over it… The song is called Schooled in the Trade.
I posted a couple little videos on Vimeo. Enjoy.