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Google Maps + Craigslist = http://paulrademacher.com/housing/

MESONYMY:
The relation denoting that one thing is "the same kind of thing as" another.
E.g. "apple, orange", "red, blue", "mesonym, synonym."
Mesonyms are variously referred to as "coordinate terms" or "taxonomic sisters".

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AKA Why You Should Be in San Francisco 10 March 2004, Especially If Your Name Starts With Tink

Dorkbot 11 at false profit: quoth http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotsf/,Mike McCabe will demonstrate the results of his research into breathing fire with pyrotechnic colorants. After months of ( Read more... )

The Classic: "Powers of Ten", by Charles and Ray Eames
(RealPlayer Stream of original ~9min film)
(interactive Java Applet lookalike from FSU)

Most Artistic: NASA Landsat "Earth as Art" Project
(Project Homepage)

Most Compressed: Logarithmic Maps of the Universe
(at least, about a gigaparsec's worth)

New! Get the latest news on evil killer robots with Google News Alerts.

LJ Community: cartographica
Crystal Ball, First Cut: DIY Ambient Orb
Raw Data Central: Internet Traffic Report
Open source graph drawing software: Graphviz
Latin for "one with a map fetish": cartographiliac
Instant Google/LJ/Amazon/Wiki Graphification: TouchGraph
Reminder of Rampant Exonymity: Endonym Map of Europe v0.2
Bird's Eye View of Mathematics: Tegmark ( Read more... )

merry solstice, folks.

http://www.e-sheep.com/Saturnalia

and to all a good night!

The M-TRAN (Modular TRANsformer) II.
Magnets and motors and modules, oh my.

in order of increasing evilkillerness:
Doing the limbo (.RAM: 7.8MB)
Building a tower (.RAM: 4.6MB)
Reconfigurations (.MPG: 24.9MB, .RAM: 6.6MB ( Read more... )