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I really enjoyed Measuring the World (in German: Vermessung der Welt) by Daniel Kehlmann. It describes how Alexander von Humboldt cartographs southern America and how Carl Friedrich Gauss finds out loads of miracles of the world of mathematics (and later uses these to measure out western Europe). The book is really good in giving you the feelings of those days - how it was being a discoverer.

You can have those feelings now, in our present. There’s OpenStreetMap, a Wiki-like community project for street maps. Everybody equipped with a GPS device can record tracks and use a software on her PC to tag those tracks, e.g. with street names, to then upload the track to their server which will combine all those tracks. The resulting map is put under a creative commons license and hence, it is free for all of us to use.

Many streets have already been mapped, but there are also millions of white spots right now - check out Munich (DE), for example - so join in and help measuring the world!

Tags: daniel kehlmann, measuring the world, vermessung der welt, openstreetmap, open street maps

Well, I once blogged about NY Excuse by Soulwax. Here it is on Youtube as a Apple Ad Mix. Enjoy it. And no, I’m not related to Apple in any way. My choice is Ubuntu - but this song is just tool cool.

Tags: soulwax, ny, excuse, apple, mac

Did you see Casino Royale? Sebastien Foucan running over the roof tops with our new Bond Daniel Craig - that discipline is called Free Running, actually “invented” by Foucan.

Here’s a video of two, I guess, Russian guys (correct me, if I’m wrong), doing the same thing in their streets and roof tops. Pretty cool. I just don’t get the end - can anyone help?

Tags: free, running, james, bond, casino, royale, sebastian, foucan