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Jun 28, 2009
Google Dips Its Toe Into Travel Space With City Tours  → techcrunch.com

From Jason Kincaid:

Getting started is incredibly easy — just type in where you’re visiting (say, San Francisco or London), and Google will present a suggested itinerary spanning a three day trip, with around a dozen attractions per day depending on the city. From there you can change the number of days you’ll be staying (Google will show more attractions the longer you stay), and you can also manually adjust the list of places you’d like to visit. You can add a new attraction by entering its name in a text field, and Google will try to find it in its database. All attractions include a star rating, along with its hours operation and location.

I tried it out for Toronto and it’s looking very promising. The locations they pick for a day are more-or-less within walking distance, although you should probably cut the number of attractions in half and spend some more time in truly interesting places.

Also interesting: CN Tower did not appear at all in the itinerary!

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Jun 22, 2009
Her name was Neda. → dailykos.com

soupsoup:

A young woman who was standing aside with her father watching the protests was shot by a basij member hiding on the rooftop of a civilian house. He had clear shot at the girl and could not miss her. However, he aimed straight her heart. I am a doctor, so I rushed to try to save her. But the impact of the gunshot was so fierce that the bullet had blasted inside the victim’s chest, and she died in less than 2 minutes. The protests were going on about 1 kilometers away in the main street and some of the protesting crowd were running from tear gass used among them, towards Salehi St. The film is shot by my friend who was standing beside me. Please let the world know.

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“140 characters is a novel when you’re being shot at.” —From FARK.com Iranian demonstration thread
Jun 16, 2009
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Songs for a Monday morning: “Hard Times” by Patrick Wolf

Divided nation in sedation
Overload of information
That we have grown up to ignore…
Mediocrity applauded

Through these hard times
We’ll work harder.
Give me hard times
And I’ll work harder, harder

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