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For those of you who’ve downloaded Google Earth, the guy at the demo booth showed me a minor easter egg in it. When you’re in the view mode, press CTRL-G, and you’ll enter a flight simulator mode. It’s pretty sweet. 🙂

Dave, you’re a great guy, but sometimes, I just wonder — do you read your own blog? BTW, I’ve been watching for any evidence of acknowledgement from Apple, haven’t seen any yet. and then this: The San Francisco Chronicle is podcasting. Interesting that their feeds use the category element. You don’t often see this. Thanks. Dude, I emailed you that link last night, and blogged it. Way to acknowledge me. 😉 And on another note, are you really comparing podcasting…

SF Chronicle: The San Francisco Chronicle is expanding its offerings of online content today by providing podcasts on its Web site, SFGate.com. Podcasts are radio-like shows that people can automatically download off the Internet and listen to on their computer or portable digital music player. “We are pleased to provide this new way for Chronicle readers and Gate users to get useful and compelling information about the San Francisco Bay Area that they cannot find anywhere else,” said Chronicle Executive…

Wade Roush: In fact, I’d guess that in this age of digital imaging and mapping, San Francisco has become the world’s most thoroughly documented city. I’m reminded of The Illustrated Directory: Vol. 1, San Francisco, an 1894 guidebook shown to me recently by David Rumsey, a private collector of historical maps. This beautiful and extremely rare volume, full of artists’ engravings of each block of San Francisco’s business district, was unique for its time — and about 110 years ahead…

Here’s the link to the new A9 Search. That link is for Berkeley.

Sean says: With a single keystroke in OSX, you can invert your laptop’s screen and turn it black-and-white. That improves the legibility of things that are hard to see in brightly-lit environments. Repeat the keystroke and you’re back to normal.

From Kos: Today’s Front Pages

So today I’m at Where 2.0. I had been skeptical about this conference, as after having only gone to a few tech conferences before, it seems like they are, crudely put, one big circle jerk. (IE, all the same people talking about all the same things.) But given that I’m starting to go a little stir crazy with nothing but my cat to keep me company as I write all day on my couch, I figured that the conference would…

Somehow, my blog is the #4 link on Google for Piotr Adamski, the Polish model who I blogged about the other day, quoting an NYT piece about it. The NYT piece is #5. As such, I’ve been getting loads of traffic to my blog, nearly four times what I normally get.

Playlist: By Cyrus Farivar Getting your hands on your favorite podcasts just got easier with TuesdayÕs release of iTunes 4.9. The latest version of AppleÕs music jukebox and download application adds support for podcasting, a new type of time-shifted amateur radio. Up until iTunes 4.9Õs release, podcasts typically have been downloaded through a podcasting client, such as iPodder or iPodderX. Now, iTunes and podcasting are one, completing a seemingly inevitable union. HereÕs what you can expect when searching for podcasts…