Week of 2006-10-28 17:00 to 2006-11-04 16:59

Girl: a mix

9 small album covers in shape of square

  1. “Mojave Girl” - Skeeter Truck Skeeter Truck - Skeeter Truck - Mojave Girl
  2. “BIT RATE VARIATIONS IN B-FLAT (Girl)” - Beck Beck - GameBoy Variations (Hell Yes Remix) - EP - Bit Rate Variations in B-Flat (Girl) [Remix by Paza of The X-Dump]
  3. “Breaking The Girl” - Red Hot Chili Peppers Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Breaking the Girl
  4. “Punk Rock Girl” - The Dead Milkmen The Dead Milkmen - Death Rides a Pale Cow - The Ultimate Collection - Punk Rock Girl
  5. “Material Girl” - Madonna Madonna - Like a Virgin - Material Girl
  6. “Knoxville Girl” - The Louvin Brothers The Louvin Brothers & Tommy Cash - K-tel Presents Rise and Shine - Knoxville Girl
  7. “Playgirl” - Ladytron Ladytron - 604 - Playgirl
  8. “Girl Anachronism” - The Dresden Dolls The Dresden Dolls - The Dresden Dolls - Girl Anachronism
  9. “The Girl From Ipanema” - Stan Getz Astrud Gilberto, João Gilberto & Stan Getz - The Very Best of Stan Getz - The Girl from Ipanema
  10. “Girl of 100 Lists” - Go-Go’s The Go-Go's - Vacation - Girl of 100 Lists
  11. “Gun Street Girl” - Tom Waits Tom Waits - Rain Dogs - Gun Street Girl
  12. “Dissolved Girl” - Massive Attack Massive Attack - Mezzanine - Dissolved Girl
  13. “You’re A Big Girl” - Bob Dylan Bob Dylan - Blood On the Tracks - You're a Big Girl Now

3D Baseball Stadiums in Google Earth

What took y’all so long? ;) Google Earth Blog reports on Baseball, 3D Stadiums, Videos, and Google Earth

What do these things have in common? As mentioned in September, Google has been quietly adding realistic high-quality 3D models of buildings to the Google 3DWarehouse. They have a number of the Major League Baseball stadiums available for Google Earth 4 (make sure you download the latest version of GE which was just released November 1st).

No Dodger Stadium as yet, but they do have a number of existing and older parks.

Condors and pigeons

Two spiffy bird-related items in the news.

First up, this awesome story in the LA Times, “Large bird, small boy, big news”

Like any good bird-lover, Gabriel Gottfried knew what to do when he spied the huge creature perched on a tree branch outside his Topanga Canyon home.

He grabbed his camera to document what experts say may be the first California condor to fly the canyon’s skies in more than 100 years.

His action photo of the elusive bird taking wing was remarkable enough.

But perhaps not as remarkable as the fact that Gabriel is 5 years old….

Way to go, Gabe!

Next up, a headline from National Geographic that is so thoroughly rooted in the 21st Century, it’ll make your head spin: “GPS-Equipped Pigeons Enlisted as Pollution Bloggers”

If pigeons wrote their own blogs, they might talk about where to score breadcrumbs or find prime roosting spots.

Now, with the help of tiny high-tech backpacks, pigeons really have become bloggers—but they’re posting messages about California smog….