Evan Parker

"More images of Sony Ericsson's upcoming Android Rachael smartphone have leaked and confirm it's a real looker, right up with the iPhone's minimalistic beauty. Nokia, with its clunky retro-boring N97 should watch out. The Racheal's funky 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 8 megapixel autofocus camera and 3D graphics acceleration should even give the new iPhone 3G S a real run for its money." - Evan Parker from Bookmarklet

"Sometimes you want to see the results for multiple searches in Google Maps or you want to quickly switch to a recent query. Now it's possible: Google Maps displays at the bottom of the page a list of recent searches and each layer of search results can be enabled independently. Google Maps uses different colors for the markers so you can differentiate the results." - Evan Parker from Bookmarklet

Congrats to Neal and team for this launch! They've been working on it a while, it took a lot of refactoring of various pieces of client code that display results on the map to make them all conform to the same interface that allows them to be displayed on the map at once. - Evan Parker

"How Iran’s political crisis might only strengthen the Islamic Republic -- and why Rafsanjani could be the election’s real winner." - Evan Parker from Bookmarklet

Adorable!! - Susan Beebe from iPhone

It looks like you're putting Tux to the guillotine - /Users/genieyclo

"In a post-hoc analysis of the side effect questions of their original three-year RCT, they discovered 104 post-menopausal African American women given vitamin D were three times less likely to report cold and flu symptoms than 104 placebo controls. A low dose (800 IU/day) not only reduced reported incidence, it abolished the seasonality of reported colds and flu. A higher dose (2000 IU/day), given during the last year of their trial, virtually eradicated all reports of colds or flu." - Evan Parker from Bookmarklet

Evidence that vitamin D helps prevent the flu has been building for a while, but this paper is the first I've seen to show clear evidence of it in a controlled study and explain the mechanism behind it. The paper also goes into how flu is transmitted, suggesting that sick-to-well transmission is likely not the main way in which it is transmitted (I haven't read far enough yet to see if they suggest an alternative). - Evan Parker

Ah, towards the end it talks about "good transmitters" that are possibly asymptomatic being the primary method of transmission. - Evan Parker

Icons never die... - Tobias Boonstoppel

"Ars reviews the Palm Pre, part 2: the webOS experience In this second installment of our Palm Pre review, we go in-depth on the software side of the device. Does Palm's webOS really live up to its promise as a "cloud" messaging mobile? More on this topic, as well as the calendar, browser, contacts, alerts, dialer, and other features, inside." - Evan Parker from Bookmarklet

Wow, that's definitely not your typical "why I celebrate this holiday" puff piece. - Doug

Just pre-ordered this, looks like it should be out in the next month. I can't wait to play it - I love the original and the first expansion - and this expansion looks like it adds a bunch of new depth to the game. - Evan Parker from Bookmarklet

Wow, that blows mine away. What strategy? - Mandi

Yes, alien toy shop is awesome. As I was playing I just couldn't believe my luck, as draw after draw I got what seemed like the perfect hand and my opponent (Eric H.) always seemed to play exactly what I needed. He ended up with 37 points. - Evan Parker

"We just received updated satellite imagery of Tehran, taken on Thursday the 18th at approximatly 11:18am local time." - Evan Parker from Bookmarklet

"What an entertaining and fabulous spring show from Decadance! For over two hours, Deca showcased eighteen exciting choreographies each with its own unique blend of dance fusion — going from squaring dancing to redowa in “Feel Good Inc”, mixing bhangra with schottische in “Maahi Ve”, swing dance in “Paris Waltz”, and dramatic and humorous theatrical plays in “One Step to Save the World”. It was a most entertaining night that ended with one of my favorite Deca choreographies, “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go”, choreographed by David Chen with music by Wham! and photographed here." - Evan Parker from Bookmarklet

Wow! Those are awesome pics. Sorry to miss the show. I think you need longer hair to pull off a headband though. *grins* ;-) - Mandi

Hehe, yeah I got my hair cut really short a couple weeks ago. Shortest I've ever cut it I think. - Evan Parker

This is a really cool feature. The technology behind it and the UI are both awesome. - Evan Parker from Bookmarklet

"This comparison is based on unlimited data, unlimited voice, and unlimited text messaging. The iPhone comes in as the most costly device at $3800 over two years. The Palm Pre was the cheapest at $2600, with the G1 falling in the middle at $3150." - Evan Parker from Bookmarklet

"Toyota Motor Corp. believes that, in response to the diversification of energy sources, plug-in hybrid vehicles are currently the most suitable environmentally considerate vehicles for widespread use" Finally! Not for consumers yet though, only for "corporate and municipal" customers at first :( - Evan Parker from Bookmarklet

"Since most other smartphones of this class either don't come with on-board GPS navigation, or charge you for it, we felt it was notable that Sprint and Palm are giving away what feels like a very usable GPS app with the Pre. We used the software -- which does turn-by-turn / text-to-speech directions -- while driving from San Diego to LA, and it worked flawlessly." - Evan Parker from Bookmarklet

2 Falcon 9 launches this year? As always SpaceX is ambitious, let's see if they can deliver... - Evan Parker from Bookmarklet

Handy. I like the little compass arrow that accompanies every result. - Evan Parker

"Today the Local Business Center team is rolling out a new feature: a dashboard that will provide you with information on how Google users are interacting with your local listing in Google Maps and Google Search." - Evan Parker from Bookmarklet

Kudos to Paul and Mihai for the awesome new 2D-3D view matching code (and much of the rest of the new code) - the transition is seamless! Check it out in the video on this blog post. - Evan Parker from Bookmarklet

"Welcome to the release of version 3 of the Google Maps API. This JavaScript API will look similar to the existing version 2 of the Google Maps API. However, much has changed under the hood: Version 3 (called V3 within this document) has been designed to load fast, especially on mobile browsers such as Android-based devices and the iPhone™. The initial launch has a smaller feature set than that available in the V2 API. We will migrate additional features from V2 while working to keep the size of the JavaScript code small and maintain our optimized loading speeds." Launched at Google I/O. Congrats to Ben Appleton and the rest of the Maps API team on the launch! - Evan Parker from Bookmarklet

Here's the blog post: http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2009.... - Evan Parker

I took a bunch of photos at the Maker Fair today and am trying to upload them. One. By. One. - Evan Parker

Finally gave up on that method and copied photos to computer using picasa before uploading to picasaweb. Added bonus: this method preserves the photo's location stored in the EXIF header by android. Uploading directly from android does not. - Evan Parker

Final product: http://picasaweb.google.com/eparker.... Favorite picture: a raccoon with wings: http://picasaweb.google.com/eparker.... - Evan Parker

what is this wave that you speak of? - Rob Schonberger

oh, sorry, I meant walkabout ;) - Evan Parker

Has there been some new announcement? I haven't heard. - Rob Schonberger