Douglas Adams’ 1990 BBC documentary Hyperland (see Wikipedia entry for background) will eat almost an hour of your day. Let it. I promise you won’t regret the investment.

• Pictopia: large prints
  “You email them a digital image file; in a few days they mail back a magnificently large, utterly crisp, remarkably stable, frameable print.”
  (tags: photography)

• Widget Supply
  “Hard to find hobby & craft tools”
  (tags: tools)

Two bits encountered this morning, about as unrelated as can be I think (or perhaps hope…), though both have to do with savor: Robyn Eckhardt’s utterly delicious essay on Bplaa Raa, and Peter Schjeldahl’s “Going East”, a rumination on Napoleon at the Dahesh in the August 28 New Yorker (alas, not available online). One lovely definition from the latter:

Camp –the savoring of unintended ironies [pg. 80]

…and it was enlightening to learn a bit about Dr. Dahesh (“Dr. Wonder”).

• Bogosity
  adumbrated at Language Log
  (tags: language)

Ze Frank‘s takes on pretty much anything are at the very least refreshing/provocative, and often they’re enlightening (though sometimes NSFW, but since I don’t W anymore, no problem). The mode of delivery, as a collage of short takes of (mostly) Ze’s unblinking/motormouthing phiz, gets a lot into a few seconds, and hearing his daily rant is generally as good as seeing it (occasional exceptions). Yesterday’s rumination on compression (a 1:48 outtake, edited slightly, but see the whole thing if you’re really a Sports Racer) includes a useful info analogy to looking through a dirty pane of glass. If I was still W-ing, I’d use the clip to kick off a class, and I’ll bet I could make it appropriate to just about any subject.

• The Mind is a Metaphor
  “…collection of eighteenth-century metaphors of mind … part of a scholarly study of the metaphors and root-images appealed to by the novelists, poets, dramatists, essayists, philosophers, belle lettrists, preachers, and pamphleteers of the eighteenth
  (tags: metastuff)

• What is Inside a JPEG File
  straight poop from The Society for Imaging Science and Technology
  (tags: images)
• Siam Soundtrek
  remarkable precedent, a mashup of Google Maps and MP3s that tours many sites in Bangkok
  (tags: geotagged)

Hans Rosling’s TED presentation is as fine an introduction to Data 2.0 as you’re likely to find. Gapminder is FREE, and Rosling’s blog is a worthy addition to one’s daily reading. He’s Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institutet.

• How to add Google Search to your Maps API application
  “…allow your maps-based applications to execute a search and then plot those search results on the map”
  (tags: ajax geospatial tools)
• Flickr + Google Maps = Loc.alize.us
  “…allows you to cruise Flickr photos, tags and people based on geotagged location”
  (tags: geospatial geotagged)