iTunes Smart Playlists

Here’s one way to build the ultimate playlist in iTunes. One that covers what you’ve listened to the most. One that covers your highest rated songs. One that covers both new songs and old song you love but may have forgotten about. For sure this isn’t the only way to do things. But if you don’t use all the things mentioned in this article, at least reading it will get you in the right frame of mind to build your own ultimate playlist.

Andy Budd::Blogography: iTunes Smart Playlists

Earth View

I found this a while back and I’m just now getting around to posting it. But Earth View is a view of Earth as it would look from the Sun. It’s updated to the second every time you hit the refresh button in your web browser. The link below is to the 1024 pixel image. You can change the size by scrolling down and inputing a new size near the bottom of the page:

Earth View

Also visit the main page where you can see a map of the whole Earth showing day and night regioins, view the Earth from the Sun, Moon, or dark side, view any location on Earth via longitude and latitude, and even view the Moon from the Sun, Earth, or dark side. Their are many more interesting options you can select so you’ll just have to go and see for yourself:

Earth and Moon Viewer

Senses Challenge

I heard this test that tests your senses can make the smart look dumb and the dumb look dumber. So have a go at it and see where you fall. I didn’t do too bad, what makes it hard is that the questions are timed and I couldn’t figure out what the actual objective was on a couple of questions until most my time was gone. It takes about 10 minutes to complete the test.

BBC – Senses Challenge

US highest elevation map

I love Google Maps. It’s still just a tad better in my opinion than the new Yahoo! Maps BETA. Both of which are tons better than the now antiquated MapQuest. Anyhow, there are a ton of things users can do with Google Maps. Here’s a cool example I’ve run across. It’s a map showing the highest point in each state in the US:

United States Map – Highest Elevation Points – GEOLOGY.COM