Archive for October, 2006

New Ask.com maps have walking (biking) directions

October 25th, 2006

maps.ask.com Maps, with most of the same technology from google maps (navteq), but now with walking directions. Which, works out to having directions without freeways, which works out to biking directions. I haven’t explored it much, but it looks nice. The interface is a bit easier to use and even more web [...]


Compiling kernels like it was 1999.

October 17th, 2006

So yeah, that was my weekend… err actually I didn’t try going all the way to recompiling my kernel until last night. At which point I realized that the dyne:bolic config was a bit more contrived than I was willing to figure out at 1AM. So… yeah, I still haven’t gotten freebob working [...]


Detour festival, etc.

October 10th, 2006

Well… let’s see. This weekend, I saw Beck, Basement Jaxx, Peeping Tom and a bit of Queens of the Stone Age at the Detour festival. I had won tickets, so I didn’t really feel like getting there on time… I feel like it was cool, but I wish I’d seen more (like [...]


Harmony Stratotone Eastwood reissue!

October 2nd, 2006

Seems like only last month I was talking about seeing Marc Ribot play a Harmony Stratotone with Ceramic Dog. And now, the folks at Eastwood Guitars are putting out a reissue!
It looks completely awesome. They put Airline on the headstock, but the little atom logo is the same and … wow… it looks [...]