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• YouTube > Frank Caliendo
  Frank Caliendo from MAD TV does some great impressions. Personal favorite: Al Pacino saying “Liar, liar, pants on fire…”
  (tags: funny video youtube)

• eyespot (beta)
  New online video editing tool
  (tags: video videoediting webtools)
• Photos from space on Flickr
  Photos from space tourist Anousheh Ansari on Flickr (via kottke.org)
  (tags: flickr)
• Engadget HD > TiVo Series 3 Review
  (tags: tivoseries3 tivo reviews)
• retrevo
  Search engine for consumer electronics product info: product manuals, related blog posts, reviews, etc. This is a good excuse for throwing out all of those product manuals that I have cluttering my desk.
  (tags: electronics gadgets webtools)

One of the only knocks against Flickr’s new geotagging service has been the lack of detailed maps for non-U.S. locations. It’s good to see that they’re making progress on expanding the maps. When I saw that they recently added maps for Bora Bora I decided to upload my honeymoon photos from 5 years ago. Check them out on a map here.

• Newsweek > Where in the World Are Your Pictures?
  Newsweek covers Flickr’s new geotagging service
  (tags: flickr geotagging)
• Business Week Online: Best of The Web 2006
  (tags: bestof2006)

Congratulations to the 2006 Oakland A’s! After a two year hiatus they are back in the playoffs.  >>video

• Chaos by design The inside story of disorder, disarray, and uncertainty at Google. And why it’s all part of the plan. (They hope.)

  Controlled chaos at Google

  (tags: google innovation methodology)

• NY Times > Young Internet Producers, Bankrolled, Are Seeking Act II

  Profile of Jay Adelson and Kevin Rose, founders of Digg and Revision3, an internet video production company

  (tags: diggnation revision3 kevinrose startup web2.0)

• Lifehacker > Get a free college education online

  An extensive set of links for online college courses, lectures, etc.

  (tags: education learning)

• Startup Review > Case Study: Rotten Tomatoes

  A case study of Rotten Tomates, one of the leading movie sites on the web.

  (tags: startup entrepreneurship)

• GrandCentral, One Number… for Life

  Allows you to set up a local phone number and associate it with your cell phone, work phone, and home phone. You can customize the voice mail message, set up different rules for different caller groups, access voice mails online, etc.

  (tags: webtools productivity phone)

Here’s my dog Huck (a Goldendoodle) catching a frisbee at Fort Funston.

• SF Gate > Restored dome is centerpiece of the new Westfield San Francisco Centre
  The Westfield San Francisco Centre opens this week. This is an audio slide show describing this new urban space.
  (tags: sanfrancisco architecture)
• Flickr > Get your kicks on Route 66
  A map showing geotagged photos tagged with “route 66″
  (tags: flickr geotagging)
• SF Chronicle > Cave discovered in Sequoia National Park
  “Four amateur cave explorers in Sequoia National Park have discovered a vast cave formed 1 million years ago, a labyrinth that stretches more than 1,000 feet into a mountain…”
  (tags: california outdoors)

On the Bay, last Wednesday…

• MeeVee
  Create a personalized TV guide
  (tags: tv webtools personalization)
• photofront
  An alternate front-end for your Flickr photos
  (tags: flickr photosharing photography)
• Inside a Web giant’s manic search for staying power | Chicago Tribune
  A snapshot of what is going on at Google these days
  (tags: google)
• AmericanHeritage.com / Tiki
  Tiki history
  (tags: popculture tiki)