Carriage tours are so passe. An entrepreneurial gentleman with connections to Savannah, GA is offering tours of the city’s historic district – on Segway HTs! At $65/person for a two-hour session including training, the tours are not cheap, but what a great way to enjoy a Segway short of plunking down $5k for one yourself. I wouldn’t recommend it in the August heat – but you snowbirds heading down I-95 this Winter should stop by and check these out.
Tag Archives: Web
Kitten War
Kitten War is a site with a simple idea: people send in scans of their kitties, and then two kittens enter, with only the cute kitten leaving. Fair enough, but the golden nugget of this site is not the cute stuff, it’s the hall of losers. These are not happy animals. Looks like the kitten equivalent of a media indecency watch group.
Link: Kitten War
(Via Eyebeam, via Screenhead)
Flickr auto-finds coolest photos, related photos
Flickr has just released some new features organized around their the nature/relationships implied by user activity around the images on their site, an interesting expansion/improvement on their tagging structure.
Interestingness creates a daily page with the most ‘Interesting’ pics uploaded as defined by how favored the image is, how many comments exist for it, and how widely distributed the user interest happens to be. Very slick. The other new feature, Clustering, groups tags by concept. So the “cute cluster” gets broken in to “cute kittens,” “cute puppies,” “cute babies” and “cute smiles.” Bush gets broken into ‘protest president politics’, ‘green-flower-nature’, ‘grafitti-sticker-stencil’, etc. The flickr blog discusses the new features. Very slick stuff.
(via BoingBoing.)
Brown-Bag Your Way To Half a Million!
Over at personal finance blog Hello, Dollar! they’ve got a great post about how bringing your four times a week can eventually earn you half a million dollars.
So let’s see, four days bringing lunch at $2 plus one day out at $7 equals $15 per week. Eating out every day would cost $35 per week, so I save $20. $20 a week! That’s over $80 a month — that covers my utility bills right there. Who couldn’t use that?
40 years and the miracle of compound interest turns that into $581,826! Nice!
(via Lifehacker)