I’m looking up an address in Google Maps for an work meeting earlier today, and I click on send to do my normal “send to email” option, only to find that there were two additional options: car and GPS.

You will need to add a plug-in (IE and FF), and once you have that installed, and your GPS connected, when you click send … it’s loaded to your GPS!

Too cool!

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It’s amazing what you find when you are browsing randomly through the web. It seems that the number on the back of books (the ISBN) is moving from 10-digits to 13-digits in 2007.

The source of this news actually provides a really good overview of how the ISBN system works, and why it is the way that it is (and now moving to a 13-digit number).

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Being a crackberry user, I’m always interested in articles that collect useful links, especially if they relate to the my handy hand-sized gizmo.

Over at BlackBerry Forums I discovered this link to a page full, I mean FULL of links that are mobile device friendly. If you use a mobile device, its worth checking this page out.

Earlier this weekend, I found that Lifehacker posted a link to mobile-friendly shopping sites (like Amazon, etc.). Extremely useful at this time of year.

Now, I need a decent mobile-device friendly bookmark manager to keep them all organized. Any suggestions?

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… planets, that is.

According to a BBC news story, Astronomers have voted to strip Pluto of its status as a planet after approving new guidelines defining what constitutes a planet.

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Yep, there is such a place, and it’s hosted at University of North Texas in partnership with the Government Printing Office. It’s appropriately called the CyberCemetary.

Here you will find websites on the National Partnership for Reinventing Government, the President’s Commission on the Celebration of Women in American History, and other now dead websites.

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This is a pretty kewl waste of time. It imports a website into a Word-esque looking document (either Blue or Silver versions). As Paul asks, are there any workplaces where this would be needed? It reminds me of the old “BOSS” button that some sites used to have. Besides with RSS feeds all over the place, who reads websites anymore?

Source: paulenglish.com

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Earlier this week while looking at other people’s blogs, I found this link (courtesy of danah @ apophenia). It provides an insight to how different drugs affect our behaviours and our abilities to function, through the use of animated mice. It really is a very cool tool if you want to understand what actually happens to the brain when drugs are used.

Here is another cool tool created for the folks that use OS X. (SIGH)

WikiMania Conference 2006 kicked off yesterday, and here is a good recap of Day 1.

Rolling Stone’s most recent cover story is titled “The Worst President in History?” Guess who this might be about? (Source: Chris)

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As some of my friends know, I’ve been recently trying out a BlackBerry as a replacement phone. The move would also involve me changing my service provider from Sprint to T-Mobile. (Sprint has mobile communication devices like BlackBerry, but their service plans seemed to be a little steep, and therefore not an option.) Currently, I am waiting for my Sprint agreement to end (tomorrow, yay!) so I can port my number over. The few times that I have used the phone (as a phone), I’ve been happy with the quality and the coverage.
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