Neil's protest album debuts on the Net

Way to go Neil...

Link to Yahoo! News piece.
Link to Neil's Garage (www.neilyoung.com)

UPDATE: Link to a review of the new album by rock critic Ken Tucker.

iPod "Domino Effect" TV Ad

Cool TV ad for what looks like an Apple dealer.

Link

TV in Japan

"Domo arigato" to Xeni at BoingBoing for the pointer to this great blog featuring whacky crap on TV in Japan. Very cool!

Link.

Map Visualizations

Worldmapper is a set of maps that distort the size of countries to make them proportional to those countries' child populations, predicted population in 2500, immigrants, net incoming tourism, passenger cars, dairy exports, and more.
Very cool.

Link via Nat at O'Reilly Radar.

Oh Canada! videos

Everything I know about the Caribou I learned from "Hinterland Who's Who".

Links via MeFi.

Clean Vrooooommm!

The Vespa goes Hybrid!
Wonder if it'll sound the same?

Link to Gizmodo.

Apple Boot Camp

I've been giving this lots of thought to this since Apple launched this free software that let's you boot WindowsXP on their Intel based MacBookPro. At $2,500+ the MacBookPro is at the high end of the notebook market but tha fact you can run both OS'es (and probably Linux and Windows Vista too) makes this rig a "double-plus-good" no-brainer, totally awesome rig.

Some more thoughts on Boot Camp via digg.

EnvisionToronto

A pretty cool GoogleMaps / local photo mashup.

Link via MetaFilter

Cabs and GPS

"CabSpotting traces San Francisco's taxi cabs as they travel throughout the Bay Area. The patterns traced by each cab create a living and always-changing map of city life. This map hints at economic, social, and cultural trends that are otherwise invisible."

Link via MetaFilter.

Expo '67: "Man and His World"

I'm not exactly sure where the feminists were in 1967 to protest the theme of the this world Expo in Montreal but I attended with my parents and my dear Aunt Norni (Elanor) and had a total blast. Here are some links to some wonderful scanned images of Expo '67 courtesy of the folks at MetaFilter.

Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots on Steriods

This video clip from a Japanese competition is strangely fascinating... at least for geeks like me.

Link via digg.

Liberal Leadership

Interesting coverage of the Liberal Party of Canada leadership race -- on the MetaFilter blog. Link.

BellSouth plays Snidely Whiplash

BellSouth is set to shut down New Orlean's city wide WiFi because they claim it's illegal competition for the services they offer. Link.

Peer-to-Peer-to-Lawyers

First you get the power, then you get the money, then you get the lawsuit...
Streamcast Networks sues Kaaza/Skype under RICO statutes :-)

Link via Om Malik.

Apple iPhone

OK, so someone in Australia says it's "all but confirmed" but any way you slice it - this thing better be an insanely great device. Dual Core iBooks and a wide screen video iPod on April 1st would be nice too :-)

Link to Gizmodo.

Apocalypse Pooh!

I imagine Disney lawyers will be issuing iFilm with a take down notice faster than people ran to catch the last chopper out of Saigon... until then check out this 9 minute mashup from 1987!

Link to iFilm via BoingBoing.

What kinda Wireless?

It's good to know that when I bolt out of bed in the morning to engage in work I truly love I'm barking up the right tree -- at least according to #4 on Paul Kerodsky's "Ten Emerging Technolgies That Will Make a Difference" list.

Tufte on Photography

One of my design heros, Edward Tufte, on aesthetic controls for photographers.

Link to ask E.T.

South by Southwest

Here are some great archived keynote and confernece discussions (Podcasts, MP3, Video) from last weeks "South By Southwest" Interactive conference held annually in Austin Texas. Good stuff for geeks, entrepreneurs, creatives and anyone who's curious about emerging trends.

Links to audio.
Links to video.

South Park & Tom

So Comedy Central buckles-in on a 2nd airing of a South Park episode about scientology. Tom Cruise presses for a ban on the episode and gets it. Now it's likely waaaaay more people will search, download, view and talk about it due to the controversy. Matt & Trey are smart guys and probably knew that demand for a banned episode would shoot into the stratosphere.

Here's a great post by Bob Lefsetz in which he uses this story to illustrate the changes now underway in media -- big, small, old and new. Good stuff.

Link to LefsetzLetter.

UPDATE: Yeah, well what the hell do I know... 3 hours after writing the post above I found the South Park scientology episode posted on YouTube in one of my RSS feeds.