A semi regular, almost weekly, trawl through the latest stuff on the interwebs bookmarked on Delicious.
- This fad for all things bacon flavoured is getting out of hand; a few weeks back it was bacon flavoured vodka and now you can get bacon flavoured lip balm.
- There’s lots of geeks in the United Kingdom; now you can know where they are. I might be there as well.
- Someone posted the PIN number from your credit or debit card onto the interwebs.
- Twitter’s popular these days; even the birds in the trees are RT’ing.
- If Ohio was a piano, ever wondered how it’d sound? Possibly the weirdest geo and mapping visualization. Ever.
- There’s a spectrum from OMG to WTF, pasing through”I get it”, “that’s strange” and “I don’t get it” along the way.
- And finally, UNIX turned 40. It’s still younger than me though.
Another Piece Of Bloggage By Gary
Self professed "geek with a life", geo-blogger, geo-talker and geo-tweeter, Gary works in London and Berlin as Director of the Places Registry for Nokia; he's a co-founder of WhereCamp EU, the chair of w3gconf and sits on the W3C POI Working Group and the UK Location User Group. A contributor to the Mapstraction mapping API, Gary speaks and presents at a wide range of conferences and events including Where 2.0, State of the Map, AGI GeoCommunity, Geo-Loco, Social-Loco, GeoMob, the BCS GeoSpatial SG and LocBiz. Writing as regularly as possible on location, place, maps and other facets of geography, Gary blogs at www.vicchi.org and tweets as @vicchi.
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