Thursday, December 05, 2002

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Book Swap Meets Book Swap. I recently attended a book swap hosted by some friends. A book swap is exactly what it sounds like: you get together with a bunch of people and exchange books. A book swap is a sort of literary stone soup. Everyone who attends adds a little something, and the result is greater than the sum of its parts. It's surprisingly fun and very interesting to see what gems people dig up. [kuro5hin.org] 6:23:40 PM

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Map of Amsterdam Maps designed by mobs. For the last couple of months, volunteers living in Amsterdam have been wearing GPS units which track their movements around town. The data was used to create a road map of the city. Link Discuss (Thanks, Kevin!) [Boing Boing Blog] 6:21:22 PM

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Email Travelogue of India--the best kind Crisscrossing India. My friend Vipin - a Sound Engineer, crisscrossed North India with a small documentary crew. The film maker he was travelling with was Saeed Mirza - wellknown in the country for offbeat films and television serials. This is his account of the journey as emailed to some of us. It is one of the truest accounts of the current socio-political situation of the country I have read for a long time. Note: Vipin gave me permission to post this. I corrected only the most obvious typos. They were travelling on a more polished version of a Jeep (Vipin calls it zeep) with an airconditioner. But unfortunately the larger than life filmmaker on the front seat took most of the cool air. [kuro5hin.org] 5:58:29 PM

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The Way Microprocessors Work Ars Technica's Technopaedia explains how parts of your computer work. http://arstechnica.com/paedia/index.html 5:29:39 PM