Some related posts from Technorati and Google.

 [Spatiallyadjusted.com] Spatially Adjusted: Google Earth Archives: Some have said that ArcGIS is the world's largest software application built with Microsoft's COM and while that may or may not be true, the plain fact is that ArcGIS has so many tools at the ready and these tools have decades of development behind them, that Google/Microsoft would be very hard pressed to compete. Now at the consumer end, that is a different story and it may be that GE and MapPoint eventually close the gap toward being a low end GIS tool, but even then you have to wonder about the quality of analysis that these tools may give the user given the lack of experience with GIS.

 [Thelastminute.typepad.com] The Last Minute: 'One blogger, whose daughter wasthree months old when the family purchased their first TiVo, “gets quiteconfused when we are watching a non-TiVo TV, and she asks to watch ”˜a kids’show,’ and we have to explain that this TV won’t do what ours at home does.”She thinks the television is broken. Another mother whose child has grown upwatching DVDs said of her four-year old, “She just takes for granted that youcan always cue up the song or scene that you want, or watch things in whateverorder you want.'

[Blog.gmane.org] gmane.os.netbsd.advocacy: Thanks, Kevin kml <at> patheticgeek.net

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