NYC Marathon Course Simulation

Guillemette sent me this super cool link which shows the progress of runners in the NYC Marathon. You can enter up to four of your friends and watch their progress. Now all it needs is a Howard Cosell voiceover. I can't wait to see how Lin (nee Mary) and Ed do this year. And also how Guillemette compares to last year. It's too bad you can't enter the same person on different years to see how they improve or, well, *ahem*. The advanced tab gives "live" updating as far as placement and speed. It must be great to look back over your run and be able to use this to plan for next year.

You must see it for yourself

Becca sent me this ascii animation, taking a famous scene from the Matrix and turning it into, well, not quite ones and zeroes. Find it here.

The last flight of the Concorde

My roommate Ed was one of the passengers on the final commercial flight of the Concorde, along with Christie Brinkley and Joan Collins. One of my favorite details of his story is that of the windows warmed by the friction of the air. I also like his comparison to the night-train from Calcutta. Dan Rather signed off his broadcast commenting on the passing of this era with words to the effect, "that's part of our, now slower, world." You can read Ed's piece here.

Ethnic Conflict and International Politics

I'm going to try to be better about posting some things here. I've spent a lot more time with my photoblog for better or worse. The above is the last cover I designed for Palgrave. They wanted an all-type solution, so . . .

Graffiti Machine

Dennis sent me this link to an online graffiti machine. Put your tag together and then print it out!

26.2: Marathon jam

For a New York marathon party she was throwing, Guillamette made marmalade, for which she asked me to design the label. With two of her friends, they make jam under the name LaConfiDesPotes. This was the result. Unfortunately, I missed the party.

Go Go Yubari

I saw Kill Bill the other night. I didn't think it was a great film (or even a particularly good one) but it was a lot of fun and there are great parts to it. It's like a collage where the whole is less than the sum of its parts. Be that as it may, I loved Go Go Yubari, who's my favorite character in the film. I wish they'd put together a Go Go anime or something. I think I liked her also because the actress was in Battle Royale (which, incidentally, I thought was a lot more violent than KB. You can read a somewhat long-winded review of Kill Bill here and one of Battle Royale here. For the latter you'll have to scroll down a bit since I posted that before I started using "A name" tags and I don't want to put them in now due to version control.

Snood

I've been addicted to Snood recently. It's like Bubble Bobble. I play with the Girltalk character set because I find it easier to read the shapes and they're somewhat less distracting. Anyway you can download your own copy here.

Fametracker

Recently, Ed and I have been egging each other on sending links back and forth from Fametracker.com. It all began with the fame audit and then progressed through the various sections. There's even a bit on the California gubernatorial elections. And that guy in the corner? That's James Hong.

Ahh the power of cheese.

Ben just sent a link to this commercial.