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Both Flickr and Upcoming.org just announced some really cool new features.

Flickr has the new map/geocoding hotness that I love. You have to be my “friends or family” to see my stuff… (Announcement)
Upcoming has “undiscovered” events pulled from Yahoo! Local as well as automagic tag-based Flickr integration (those are my crappy concert photos, thanks). (Announcement)

Neat.

Have you seen the YouTube video of the kid ripping up Pachelbel’s Canon on an electric guitar? It’s worth the five minutes if you haven’t.
The NY Times figure it was worth a bit more than that and actually tracked down the guy that did it.
Guitar fanatics are perplexed: “How the hell does he gets his […]

Bruce Schneier: What the Terrorists Want
I’d like everyone to take a deep breath and listen for a minute.
The point of terrorism is to cause terror, sometimes to further a political goal and sometimes out of sheer hatred. The people terrorists kill are not the targets; they are collateral damage. And blowing up planes, trains, markets […]

Farecast.com is probably the coolest travel site I’ve seen yet. It tells you when airfare is going to be cheapest and whether you should go ahead and buy your tickets now for that trip to Las Vegas in November or if you should wait a while for optimum pricing. It can also tell you which […]

The second season of one of my very most favoritest shows ever, Prison Break on Fox, premieres tonight.
Tune in, yo.

Bummer.
I actually thought the Jeep Gladiator was a cool concept and probably would have thought at least a little about purchasing one myself.

Today the software team took off early to go see Snakes on a Plane. (It’s quite the phenomenon on teh internets, y’know…)
Much to our surprise, the movie had a 73% on Rotten Tomatoes before we left. (It’s down to 63% now, which is stull hugely high for this particular motion picture.)
It really is a fun, […]

I can hear up to 18,000 Hz.
I’ll have to try it with headphones to test one ear at a time, though. My right ear, it doesn’t do so well, I think.