verywide.net » Society and Culture http://verywide.net/blog Just trying to catch butterflies, fish, lunatics, and stars, metaphorically speaking. Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:17:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Day Off And So Forth http://verywide.net/blog/2009/05/08/day-off-and-so-forth/ http://verywide.net/blog/2009/05/08/day-off-and-so-forth/#comments Fri, 08 May 2009 16:47:45 +0000 Moody http://verywide.net/blog/?p=307 Woke up around 6:50 in the AM to make sure our boy made it to the bus on time. Fixed some instant coffee (-like substance) and sat in bed reading Infinite Jest for awhile. I read before work every morning, which is usually the only time I get to actually sit and read anything not [...]

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]]> http://verywide.net/blog/2009/03/18/wheres-the-line/feed/ 1 hitotoki : A Narrative Map of Tokyo http://verywide.net/blog/2008/12/27/hitotoki-a-narrative-map-of-tokyo/ http://verywide.net/blog/2008/12/27/hitotoki-a-narrative-map-of-tokyo/#comments Sat, 27 Dec 2008 22:33:50 +0000 Moody http://verywide.net/blog/2008/12/27/hitotoki-a-narrative-map-of-tokyo/ hitotoki : A Narrative Map of Tokyo. (See also New York, London, Paris, Shanghai, and Sofia).

This is one of my favorite sites to visit. What you are presented with is an active Google map of the city with placemarks to identify where each story happens. You also get a few pictures that link to the various [...]

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