Gazing Into The Abyss (Michael Rawdon's Journal)  
 
2006 Weblog

01/01: TopoZone let you view topographic maps of the country on-line.
01/03: MI6 has film breakdowns and a news feed about Bond.
01/03: Fastrac's James Bond Website [sic] has some fun breakdowns and analysis of the Bond films.
01/17: A photo tour of the now-defunct Apple Icon Garden.
01/17: Google Earth is now available for Mac OS X.
01/17: Hilarious presentation of Windows Vista combining a Bill Gates voice track with a demo on Mac OS X. An instant classic!
01/21: I highly recommend reading the December 2005 Borderlands Books newsletter, particularly the "From The Office" section, concerning the impact of buying from local merchants rather than from chains. While buying from chains or on-line makes sense in many circumstances, this is still a thought-provoking article.
02/05: This isn't very timely, but here's a nifty page about creek levels in Palo Alto. The San Francisquito Street creek nearly overflowed its banks at Chaucer Street last year.
02/16: Zillow is a site where you can get estimates of the value of real estate in the US. Unfortunately it doesn't yet support the Mac OS X Safari browser, but you could try Firefox instead.
03/05: Hidden Passageway will build a hidden room or passage in your house. (via Neil Gaiman)
03/05: Have Bat Will Travel is a journal of one man's quest to become a professional baseball player - in Europe. (via Eric Albert)
03/05: Baseball great Kirby Puckett suffers a stroke. One of the great guys in recent baseball history, he's experienced far more hardship than he deserves. I wish him well. (Sadly, Puckett died the day after I posted this.)
03/09: 10 semi-obscure Mac programs you shouldn't be without. No, I don't have most of them myself.
03/19: Nifty entry by David Zink about the economies of red and blue states.
03/26: Komodo is an IDE for scripting languages (e.g., Perl, Ruby, Python) which is now available for Mac OS X. No, I haven't tried it yet.
03/26: A friend of mine described this one as a Libertarian economist reviews The Chronicles of Narnia. It's an amusing perspective, in any case.
04/16: For some reason I was moved to look up the funny animation Totally Gridbag which I saw a few years ago. This may only be funny to others who are in the programming trenches, though.
05/21: PARK(ing), creating a temporary urban park. Be sure to check out the photo gallery.
05/21: Lea Hernandez critiques a Supergirl action figure based on the artwork of Michael Turner. I personally find Michael Turner to be an artist of borderline quality with a very shaky sense of human anatomy, and found the art in his Supergirl story to be very weak.
06/18: Holy toledo! It's a whole bunch of Simpsons figurines painted as members of the Legion of Super-Heroes!
06/25: Four Color Comics is a comic book blog run by JD Roth, and which I'll be contributing to from time to time, since he invited me.

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