Mapping links from CNN segment

http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2006/12/50-things-to-do-with-google-maps.html

http://oilmoney.priceofoil.org/federalRaceGraph.php

why the Tenement Museum in NY is the most popular place in the world...

Answer...I don't know, I couldn't get in it was that popular! Emily and I went today only to be met with a big Sold Out message!
We took pictures of us looking sad but they wont turn vertical :( We ran into Jesse who must have gotten the last ticket, he is on the tour as I type this...hope it's great Jesse!
While I was waiting outside for Emily this old German man from Delaware struck up a conversation. We talked mostly about the weather but then we started talking about old buildings in NY. I kept turning my head away from him evidently when I was talking because he kept grabbing my arm and telling me that I have to talk facing him otherwise his hearing aid wouldn't work. I didn't realize I had been turning away, it was kinda weird. We talked about the oldest Italian restaurant in NY which is close to the theater district, we both decided that old things were cool! Getting to the Tenement Museum is going to be my quest...I want to know why the lines wrap around the corner...

Where's Erin...the online version

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so i don't exactly know what we were supposed to do because MyMaps is really bare bones but also kind of a pain to use. I thought I would do an audio thing with pictures because everywhere I go there is music associated with a place or memory. So I wrote about that but I couldn't put the song in the map which was my original intent. I also started off thinking I would link to places I'd been recently which is I guess what I did but I didn't really put a time bracket on it. Hannah you said last week you wanted us to dive right instead of just sticking our toes. I feel this week I stuck in my toenail and not much else. I've been thinking of ideas I want to do but they don't seem possible to execute without a lot of fancy gadgets, time, and money. But i know i'm also copping out.

MyMaps Help

Hey gang. Does anyone know how to do anything cool with Google My Maps for next class. All I can do is make points and write comments. Is there a way to add pictures or audio?

Food Court Musical

Ok I swear this will be the last one of these I post but I love these people. As for the conversation about putting something in the public sphere......



Here's the link to the website that has a bunch - http://improveverywhere.com/

Yuta's photos version 3.0

Glass of Water

So I'm learning a lot about the state of the world's water and it's kind of freaking me out. I'm reading this book "Blue Covenant The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water," I recommend it. Anyways, there was an article in the NY Times on the 8th about drug traces in the nation's drinking water.

I decided to use excerpts from the article for this assignment. I printed this on a water glass.

An Associated Press investigation shows a vast array of pharmaceuticals -- including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones -- have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans.

The New York state health department and the USGS tested the source of the city's water, upstate. They found trace concentrations of heart medicine, infection fighters, estrogen, anti-convulsants, a mood stabilizer and a tranquilizer.

Yet officials in New York City did not go on to test their drinking water.

“Drug Traces Common in Tap Water” The New York Times. March 10, 2008.

I went to Union Square during lunch time on Monday and put the glass on one of Lawrence Weiner's Manhole Covers which say, "In direct line with another and the next."

Quite a few people stopped and read the glass. After about 20 minutes a teenage girl knocked over the glass and a group of people crowded around looking very distraught and seemingly looking for the owner of the glass. The glass was put upright and the group scattered.