Home of a restless wanderer
The adventures, observations, and struggles of an expat in Moscow, Russia...
The New Russian Business Leaders by Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries, Stanislav Shekshnia, Konstantin Korotov, and Elizabeth Florent-Treacy.
Woah. Jeff Croft has ‘geocoded’ nearly all the content on his website. Now you can browse his photos and posts according to the location where they were made. Interesting use of metadata and taxonomy. I’d consider doing this myself for experimental purposes, but I’m becoming more and more cautious of just how much personal information I put on this site.
12 Byzantine Rulers, The History of The Byzantine Empire - 13 mp3 history podcast lectures by Lars Brownworth (via Andy O.)
Google has created an interesting mashup using Google Books and Google Maps: Google searches through the text of books in the Google Books database and displays the locations mentioned on Google Maps. Take for instance the Google Books entry on Tolstoy’s War and Peace (scroll to the bottom of the page to see the map) or The Travels of Marco Polo.
McSweeny’s Short Imagined Monologues: Professor Richard Dawkins speaks at Fair Hills Kindergarten regarding Santa Claus, December 2, 2006. (via Kottke)
В метро по чипу: “С января 2007 года в московском метро появятся проездные билеты нового образца. Наряду с привычными магнитными билетами будут продаваться бесконтактные проездные, созданные с использованием микрочипа.”
The Interrobang: when you just have to express surprised queries or excited questions with one punctuation mark.
Cool. Google has just released a new tool called Google Patent Search. It currently searches through over 7 million patents; so far, it seems much better than the US Patent and Trademark Office’s search feature.