Tag Archives: Travel & Places

London

By alex | Published: 7/7/2005
The events in London today are horrible. On the bright side — if there is one — Londoners seem to have handled the crisis extraordinarily well. The best we can do, as Americans and individuals, is what we would do with any friend, let them know that we are saddened by the tragedy (a word […]
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A Dire Warning

By alex | Published: 7/3/2005
People of the world, It gives me no joy to be the bearer of such news, but scientists from around the world have recently informed me that they have done the calculations, and an object of tremendous size is on a collision course with our home. I am convinced that we will witness a near […]
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More googley map goodness

By alex | Published: 5/17/2005
Take the Chicago police blotter and run it through Google Maps and you get ChicagoCrime.org. Take a look, for example, at where you are most likely to be robbed at gunpoint, or find a dice game. (NB: Both occur with frequency on sidewalks — see the links under the map.) I wish they had this […]
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Satellite Campus

By alex | Published: 4/5/2005
Google Local and Google Maps now provide satellite images via Keyhole. Neat. Always a bit nostalgic cruising around your old neighborhoods via Low Earth Orbit. To the left here is a collage of the campuses where I have spent significant time as a student or professor. Pretty easy to guess some of those. If you […]
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