Aug 13, 2007
New Haven consists largely of parking lots and medical emergencies.
Aug 5, 2007
The God Plays Dice blog that I’ve been reading recently had an interesting entry on trying to derive the importance of intersections from a map of a city. The core observation is that a good first approximation of importance of an intersection is the number of roads leading into and out of it.
Jul 18, 2007
The New York Times posted an article about the recent release of our product to hundreds of thousands of additional advertisers. Pretty exciting stuff.
Jul 15, 2007
Despite football (soccer) being the national sport of Greenland, they are not a member of FIFA. Why, you ask? Because it’s impossible to grow grass in Greenland that meets FIFA’s standards.
Mar 19, 2007
I Didn't Really Want It Anyway
I’ve never been so pleased to be denied a service in my life.
Feb 7, 2007
Goodbye Evil Dead: The Musical
Unfortunately, Evil Dead: The Musical is closing. I will be sad to see it go, but hopefully it will find a home elsewhere.
Jan 8, 2007
My secret project is finally ready to be revealed! Behold, this xkcd comic translated into a Google Maps map! When I first read that comic and the the associated blag post, I knew the idea had a lot of potential for additional geekiness. Oliver had been messing with the Google Maps API the previous few days for an unrelated project, so this immediately sprung to mind.
Dec 20, 2006
Oliver (12:39:43 PM): I love jared code. Oliver (12:40:03 PM): if (someterriblyobscurecondition) then do some retarded shit else do something bewildering . Oliver (12:40:09 PM): (that’s pseudo-code)