It seems like everyone I know is makin’ bacon and sausages: We made all of this meat stuff

It’s an NZ TV commercial, and derivative, but pretty good nonetheless: House of Travel: Powered by People

I don’t know if it’s the New Zealand air or the half a bottle of wine I’ve had to drink tonight, but this xkcd made me LOL: Constructive

Neat map: The True Size of Africa

Thanks to Todd Lappin for his great review of our container ship voyage: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Traveling to New Zealand on a Container Ship

Watch out, there’s a new “Martha” on the block: DIY Cocktails: A simple guide to creating your own signature drinks (explanation here)

To check out upon our return: Kevin Kelly’s new book, What Technology Wants

That’s a mighty familiar perspective: Fogtown (view of the Bay Bridge from Harrison and Embarcadero)

Whoa, my old Sandwich Américain post just got Reddit’d: 11,000 views so far today and climbing…

Update: 16,509 views for the day.

Jodi travels the world for two years and then all her stuff is stolen upon return to the US:

they took my 500GB backup hard drive, my netbook with another backup of my photos and my 32GB flash card with the 3rd backup of my photos. All of these were in different places in the apartment, and all are gone.

Sailboat + killer whales + baby = Estelle and the Orcas (video by some folks I met in Auckland last weekend)

Catching up on a month’s worth of unread blog posts (before Bloglines shuts down!) and wanted to link to two bits of old news that I thought were worth noting.

MSN/Windows Live Spaces Closing, becomes WP.com (see also: Welcome Windows Live Spaces Bloggers)

The Document Foundation succeeds OpenOffice.org and plans to release LibreOffice (free from Oracle’s clutches)

So great to see the Ariel Victoria set sail

Handy: Geographic coordinate conversion