December 2005

Google Maps plug-in for Mac Address Book

December 8, 2005 / Media Technology

Brian Toth’s Google Maps plugin is a cute integration for OSX that lets you lookup your Apple Address Book addresses using Google Maps and also get directions between your Address Book addresses. (Thanks to Noel for the link!)

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Wrong number?

December 3, 2005 / Snippits

My friend Brygg points out that Arthur C. Clarke’s 1963 two-page short story Dial F for Frankenstein starts with the Net gaining consciousness just two days ago with a baby’s cry on every telephone in the world:

At 0150 Greenwich Mean Time on December 1, 2005 , every telephone in the world started to ring…

I’m still waiting by the phone, just in case…

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