OMG! It’s almost November… and again, it’s a very busy time with so many things to do – and that is a very bad thing, since I really, really would love to do another NaNoWriMo. It’s been four years now since I’ve been a NaNo Winner, and I’d love to repeat that feat. In case [...]
James Lileks got “100 Movie Pack Mystery Classics” for his birthday and what else to do than blog the movies, one at a time. The first three movie reviews are up on his site, and judging from them this could be a very long two years for James, but a very entertaining 100 weeks for [...]
Wow… yesterday I finished Anathem by Neal Stephenson and I have to say, it was quite some work to get through over 900 pages of rather amazing ideas. The book is a world-building exercise on the level of Tolkien’s best work, with a wide swath of fictional geography, history, local languages and culture fleshed out [...]
We’ve added a new feature to MapSkip: Sounds of the World. This has been something I’ve been playing with on MapSkip since the beginning – geolocating sound recordings. We still only have a few recordings on the site, but I hope that by adding a special feature page, we can attract more people to add [...]