A smattering of links
Posted by Jeremy on November 30th, 2007
A smattering of links this week - here’s the cool, the weird, and the broken.
Grocery Guide - GroceryGuide.Com helps you compare prices on food in your area. Sure, Cub might have the lowest price on beef, but everything else is higher then at Super Target. These guys help you find the price, what’s on sale, and just how to cook it once you’ve got it. Learn more about it.
Google Mobile Maps - Google Mobile Maps announced a new feature the other day, the “My Location” button now uses triangulation between cell towers to figure out where you are. Or, in my case, no matter where you try it it only says “Your current location is unavailable”. Maybe you’ll have better luck12.
Going from 36A to 36DD garners more attention - whew knew? The Daily Mail has an interesting piece by Clover Stroud about a prosthetic ‘instant boob job’ that took her from a petite 36A to an overflowing handful of 36DD. Both men and women treated her differently. Yes, we knew that already, but it’s still an interesting read.
Bench made out of 1600 pencils. And you can remove and use them individually, then put em back. Sweet!
Operation Cat Drop - In Borneo in the 1950s, the World Health Organization sprayed DDT3 to kill the mosquitoes. It did its job very well, and the malaria rate dropped as a result. But, the DDT infected insects were eaten by geckos, which were in turn eaten by cats, which then died. So the WHO dropped 14,000 cats by parachute to the people of Dayak. Yay WHO!
Transit Librarian - One of my new favorite blogs, as found over at MNSpeak4. Tales from a bus driver for Metro Transit. I really dig people stories like these and as I was once a professional driver5, I can also empathize a bit.
Footnotes listed in the above post:- If you’re curious, I’m using Google Mobil Maps version 2.0.0.11 on Windows Mobile 5.0 [↩]
- Drat! This comment on SlashDot had a fix that made his work. Didn’t work for me. Oh bother. I bet it’s Verizon’s fault. [↩]
- Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane [↩]
- Here’s a trackback link just so I can use my footnote reference thing again [↩]
- Go Big Orange! [↩]