gutwoman.)Yeah, I really do love the lefty rhetoric this week. Check out this bit of anti-war justification. After reading enough of this stuff, I'm very close to being pro-draft. Republicans complaining about military enlistment problems? Fine; put your
In less weighty news, The Philadelphia Parking Authority has unveiled an online directory of Center City parking garages, complete with prices. They claim this will boost competition and lower prices. They're right, though perhaps not to as big of an extent as they imply. I just tried it, and you have to poke around a bit to get to a full menu of prices. It's also missing some garages, including the two closest ones to my house. But it's at least a bit easier to find out about price gouging now.
Matisyahu is WXPN's Artist To Watch for June. I didn't figure this out until yesterday, because they kept pronouncing his name such that I thought they were saying "Modest Yahoo", like a spin-off of Modest Mouse or something. (Correctly pronounced, the first two syllables have equal weight, and the "I" sounds like the name of the letter "E".) It's neat that he's getting all this publicity, though I still don't like reggae.
It seems that there's a Monopoly-like game based on the realtime GPS-determined positions of real London cabs. I haven't been to the site yet, and it's quite possible that the game sucks, but it's still really neat as proof-of-concept alone. (Via Slashdot.)
