I’m really tired of the “Which is better: listening to an audiobook or reading a book” debate. It’s inane, banal and pointless. It’s requires the creation of a false dichotomy. A mandate that you fall into one side or the other. The assumption that you can’t do...

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ThruYOU a mix of unrelated YouTube videos/clips...what you see is what you hear. Amazing Via: Miles Storey who's brief description seems appropriate. ...IS FUCKING HOT From Wow Factor...

For college students, mid-March means spring break: a time of revelry, debauchery, and time spent (though not always remembered) in tropical locales. Film, music, and Internet nerds heed a similar calling, but instead of places like Fort Meyers and Miami Beach, they head south to Austin, Texas for t...

At 11 minutes past six p.m. my time, that Chinese love toy spammer I've been battling for the past week posted a spampost about their warez, including images of sex toys to the front page. At thirty four minutes past six I looked up from dinner-cooking and saw what had happened and could delete it. ...

It’s been a busy week on ProgrammableWeb, with 18 new web service APIs added to our listings. They cover a wide range from APIs for financial market data, to video chat APIs to major telephony APIs. Since we won’t have time to cover all of these individually (as with our Do the Green Thi...

Last week marked the one-year anniversary of the launch of our first foreign language translations of Google Sightseeing, when we launched Google Sightseeing Français translated by Julien Gremillot, and Google Sightseeing Italiano translated by Alexei Popov. Many congratulations to Julien and Alexe...

This sight is currently only viewable using the Google Earth application. Usually Google Maps is updated a few days after Google Earth, when this sight will be visible in your web browser. In the meantime, all links will launch in Google Earth. Over the weekend Google rolled out another major image ...

Yesterday I arrived at Schiphol Airport (Amsterdam) from New York, we landed on the just re-opened  “Zwanenburgâ€� runway, out of my window I could see the crashed Turkish Airlines nearby the “Polderâ€� runway. I took a picture with my iPhone so it is very hard to see it actually. The pic w...

I’m not Catholic. I’m not a fan of the Catholic Church. I’m not saying all Catholics are going to hell or anything. If you’re Catholic, good for you. I pray you figure out grace and faith based salvation. Many Catholics have. That said, Catholics have a lot of traditions that...