Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff

This nifty little Flash animation is a perfect description of what Creative Commons means to you and me, and to the web as a whole. And it's got The White Stripes in it...

codepope pointed the TFL Journey Planner out, but I thought it was such a good example of a web application I had to share it all over again. Enter where you are, and where you want to go and it'll give you an integrated journey plan for bus, train, tube, and even boat - as well as walking.

Excellent work, and a really useful resource that goes straight onto my bookmark list...

But it's not enough. Personally I think, what it needs is a RESTful interface, or a SOAP/WSDL interface. I don't care which, I just want to build this into existing web sites all over London... But there isn't one. Just a web page.

So, six out of ten for effort. two out of ten for execution.

Think that little bit further guys. Take a look at the Amazon API and try again.

Integral has fired up its gamma-ray telescope, and got first light. One of the first observation targets was Cygnus X-1...