iPod Linux is faster on a Mini, that’s weird. These newer minis have a PP5022 at their core rather than the PP5020 seen in other new iPods. This allows for much better power consumption and slightly faster processing. At 75Mhz they’ve been kicking out BogoMIPS of around 37, compared to 32 for the PP5020 and 16 for the PP5002. Thanks Michael! Link.
My favorite part of Where 2.0 (besides the IRCing) has been the Lighting cool tech session. Parachutes and Firefighters: Colin Bulthap from Squidlabs- they also showed a preview of a Magic window to view “meta” about the real work. 22-Story Art: Richard Greene from MOTO Development Group. and Reinventing Wi-Fi Community: Sean Savage, Project PlaceSite Link. I’ll have some pictures tonight.
Everyone’s favorite arcade emulator is hitting the PSP thanks to all the homebrew stuff going on. You’ll need to use the ole’ swap out Mem stick or the newer tools to load the program(s). There’s only one game, but it’s a start- you can also run SNES now…Previous HOW TO. [via] Link.
Amazon’s A9 photo mapping service has a bew beta- I really like the new interface and the way the pictures scroll in opposite directions as you mouse over. Pretty solid stuff. Here’s the Seattle area. Link.
David Rumsey did a walk down map memory lane, it was really amazing- Drawing on his personal collection of over 150,000 historical maps as well as his work with geographic information systems, David Rumsey shows how information of all kinds has been mapped and will be mapped in the future. Link. I’m going to get his book Cartographica Extraordinaire.
Amazon’s A9 has a video from when they were capturing images in Washington, DC for their image enhanced search engine. Turns out, the driver of the GPS, wireless enabled truck stopped in front of the State Department- a half dozen security folk showed up, asked questions for about a 30 minutes, the time lapse video the A9 engineer has was funny and scary.Link.
Google have just launched their API to the fantastic Google Maps. There’s some excellent thing people produced by hacking with pre-API Google Maps code. Let’s hope the launch of the API opens the flood gates...[