Tag Archives: Google

Home Junction

If you’ve used Google Maps in a major metropolitain area, you may have noticed one or two “neighborhood labels” that seemed bizarre and new to you even though you know the area quite well. Here is a link to Home Junction on Google Maps. As best as I can determine, some of these names goContinue reading “Home Junction”

Apple-Google Squabble Spreads to LA

The Chiat/Day relationship with Steve Jobs and Apple is nothing short of legendary. That legend goes something like this: Chiat was hired by Apple to create the (also legendary) Ridley Scott-directed, $1 million, only-aired-once-cause-it’s-so-goddamn-special 1984 commercial that introduced the Macintosh line of computers during the Super Bowl. When Jobs was forced out of left Apple, he usedContinue reading “Apple-Google Squabble Spreads to LA”

Enterprise Wardriving, by Google

You know, this picture makes me realize that the camera mount would make a really good spot to place a high gain antenna. If I were Google and I were doing this, I wouldn’t tell anyone about it either. …the cars weren’t supposed to be collecting any of the data that passed over the networks…Continue reading “Enterprise Wardriving, by Google”