Ocean Forest
Paul and Babe
Crescent City
Saturday Morning
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A little web app for creating a shadow image for custom Google Maps icons.
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Handy little wizard for generating custom Google Maps icons.
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Nice royalty-free icons, including the new free Payments set.
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Handy bit of JavaScript to get the longitude and latitude of the center point on a Google Map. This works great as a bookmarklet.
Moving Through Water
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MetaFilter is turning ten and we're celebrating with meetups across the globe. We have members planning meetups on six continents. We just need to find a MeFite in Antarctica to cover them all.
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A collection of pictures and postcards from Portland's past. The design is wacky but the stories are good. [via MeFi]
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Fun discussion of the song Aquarela do Brasil, WWII propaganda, Frank Sinatra, and Disney.
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Why are passenger trains slower today than in the 1920s? Short answer: more freight, interstates, jets. [via MeFi]
UFO Display
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Andy funded a chiptunes jazz album in less than two hours with his new project Kickstarter. Nice demonstration of the new service and the album is a fun project I'm looking forward to hearing.
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A list of all the books mentioned in the classic Ask MetaFilter thread: What single book is the best introduction to your field?
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For all your Star Trek bridge needs.
Music Share: En la Caleta
I used to play guitar and I still remember the day I discovered the pentatonic blues scale. It was like discovering the DNA of all the music I'd grown up listening to. I eventually learned that you could draw a straight line from Robert Johnson to just about any of the music I was listening to.
I'm still startled when I hear music that's built from entirely different DNA. And that's what flamenco feels like to me because I can't picture the structure as it's playing and I have no sense of its history. It's obviously following some strict rules, but I don't have a handle on them yet. I especially like this track with unusual rhythm called En la Caleta from what I think was Paco de Lucía's debut solo album in 1967.
I'm still startled when I hear music that's built from entirely different DNA. And that's what flamenco feels like to me because I can't picture the structure as it's playing and I have no sense of its history. It's obviously following some strict rules, but I don't have a handle on them yet. I especially like this track with unusual rhythm called En la Caleta from what I think was Paco de Lucía's debut solo album in 1967.