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Tall ships on a map

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Do I really need to say any more? 243 tall ships; of those for which the home port is known, draw them on a map. If there’s a picture, [...]

A quick tour of Freebase

I posted a while ago about my new crack habit, Freebase. Freebase is — to my mind — like Wikipedia mashed up with the LambdaMOO class hierarchy. The idea of creating classes and types for real world things — ships, people, breeds of sheep, bones in the human body — rather than [...]

Freebase: crack for information nerds

I have discovered something more crack-like than Wikipedia.

Freebase is a collection of user-contributed and -edited data about everything. Like Wikipedia, you can put just about anything in there. Unlike Wikipedia, you don’t just provide text, but can provide structured data. For instance, for a topic of type “person”, there are fields [...]

Maritime Museum

So, the San Francisco Maritime Museum isn’t that great, but I do like this photo.

This week has been rather insane. I’ll try and post something substantial as soon as I slow down.