Tantek’s Thoughts - Building Things
Tantek’s Thoughts - Building Things - I have no idea what Tantek has been working on, but congratulations on the imminent launch and being so dedicated to something. I can’t wait to see it.
Aharef: Websites as graphs
Aharef: Websites as graphs - neat visualization. Via Tufte
UW Priorities
UW Priorities - my schools’ Daily Bulletin from yesterday notes the priorities for the upcoming year:
- graduate expansion
- space
- income diversification
- international recruiting
- expanding professional program capacity
- strengthening industrial partnerships
Now, I complain a lot about the school’s priorities but I won’t go into that whole rant here. But if I were the president my list would look rather different. It might include crazy things like “improve the quality of education,” “improve student life,” “decrease tuition”, and “improve student-university relations.” Feel free to post your own suggestions (yes, I’m talking to the 0-2 people who read this that attend UW).
Hidden Passages in your home
Another gem heard on CBC radio: Creative Home Enginnering.
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Useful sites for Torontonians
Listening to CBC Radio (Toronto) at work (ironically in Redmond, not Toronto) and an interview mentioned two neat sites.
TTC Rider has lots (and lots) of useful information about the subway system, such as which car to get on so that you get off right at the escalator 
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The second is the not-quite-launched WashroomQuest.com, which aims to list all public and sorta-public washrooms. For people who walk, rollerblade, or bike anywhere - you know, instead of driving from one indoor location to another - this is badly needed in every city.
MapCruncher
MapCruncher turns static images into tiles suitable for use with Microsoft Virtual Earth (Windows Live Local), and presumably other tile-based mapping applications too. Very neat and useful, the existing hacks I’d seen to handle this on Google’s map API were relatively poor. Via VE blog.
TechCrunch » Rumor: Yahoo Acquired Jotspot
TechCrunch » Rumor: Yahoo Acquired Jotspot - I don’t usually report on breaking news rumours but this one is very interesting, because Jotspot is such an amazing company/product.