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Silly Map / 13000 Views by cogdogblog posted 22 Aug ‘08, 11.56am MDT PST on flickr
How crazy, crazy, crazy. My play last May of Make Starbucks say "Large" at asking people to add a node on a GoogleMap if they could get someone at Starbucks to refer to a large coffee as "Large" [...]

How could I resist a title in my RSS Reader from the TED Blog called “Nellie McKay: The Dog Song”:

If you need a companion
Just go to the pound
get yourself a hound
and make the dog proud.
That’s what it’s all about
It’s a lot of fun; even downloaded the MP4 to have it on my iPhone.
There are so [...]

I feel your fatigue. I feel mine. But I keep finding them interesting! Call me a fanboy (it’s a legit word in the dictionary).
Tossing a linktribution to HeyJude (HeyJude! Hi) who has clued me into many new tools, I gave a go at Posterous:

Posterous is the dead simple way to put anything online using email. [...]

photo credit: Mike Disharoon
I doubt I lack company for people who grew up hooked on James Bond movies. After all, he was so suave, had cool toys, fast cars, girls in bikinis, traveled the world, license to kill! I want that job.
And I’ll get heat, but there is only one genuine Bond persona [...]

photo credit: pcesarperez
People are so hung up with being labeled n00bs- it’s time for the bulk of us in that category to let our n00bility to bask in the sunshine, not hide in a closet of shame. Here are some suggestions for pumping up your n00b factor:

Keep those generic icons that come with every [...]

Jen starts out a post on Fire in the Kitchen with a statement, “I Can’t Cook”– she follows a nice thought path of using that as a metaphor for her ideas (and frustrations) on what she sees (I think) as an overemphasis on the tools of Web 2.0 and a frustration at one size fits [...]

flickr cc image credit: Cats and Dogs, Living Together! by kmevans
In my photography I’ve had a slight passing interest this year in creating panorama images (flickr has evidence). Since discovering my little Canon SD800 has a panorama shooting mode - it presents a screen with overlap to help with aligning when taking a series of [...]

photo credit: Mr.Tea
It’s 6am here and after prepping once cup of fresh coffee, I flip the laptop open to check the weather… and next thing you know am getting pinged in Australia from my colleagues in Australia. Stephan, Robyn, and Alex want to talk about a breaking story there in the Sydney Morning Herald, [...]

Hammock as rain gauge by cogdogblog posted 20 Aug ‘08, 12.11am MDT PST on flickr
Lots of rain in Strawberry this summer; the hammock has been used more to catch water that to catch naps.
photo taken with iphone and uploaded with Mobile Fotos app- awesome! it automatically geo locates!

The photo here is not the [...]

I Can Has iPhone! by cogdogblog posted 19 Aug ‘08, 6.43pm MDT PST on flickr
I’ve been wrong in my assumptions of AT&T service here in Strawberry. You cannot know w/o a phone to be sure. Maybe AT&T has been busy at woprk since I began barking about them.
There is no 3G (network is [...]