Archive for December, 2007
A fastr death to productivity
Fastr is a game based off images from flickr: basically, you compete head-to-head to come up with the shared tag for a set of flickr images. The images are on the small side, so you spend a lot of time squinting into the screen, saying “What *is* that?”
Apparently there’s no one to play with most of the time, which is sad because this is such an awesome idea. An awesome idea that would really extend well to a certain movie site that doesn’t have an open API yet. Yes, IMDB, shame to you.
Technorati Tags: fastr, flickr
How Lucky We’ve Got It
The New York Times has a new blog focusing on air travel. Today’s opening post reminded me just how good things are at the airport and in the air.
In my parents’ youth, after all, plane travel was a thing for the rich few. Starbucks outlets in the terminal; e-mail at 30,000 feet; frequent-flier programs that allow you, as I have done, to fly free to Easter Island, Paris and Cambodia: What is it, exactly, that makes us think that we should complain about sitting in a seat and being taken around the world?
Hear, hear. I’m not flying this holiday season, but I’m definitely going to think about this the next time I traverse those friendly skies.
Technorati Tags: new york times, air travel
