Jul 2005, 118 entries

Love song about a time traveler.

1. May: nothing
2. June: Extremely Close and Incredibly Loud
3. July: Wake Up, Sir!, Harry Potter 6

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Doesn't sound so fun to me.

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I heard about this place a while ago and checked it out last week. Had a pizza, a bottle of wine, some popcorn, and watched L.A. Confidential on the big screen in a nearly empty theater. The pizza and popcorn were above average, the wine satisfactorily thirst-quenching, and the whole movie-watching experience was unique—I felt like a spoiled kid to have people coming around occasionally asking me if there’s anything I’d like to eat or drink as Russell Crowe throws Kevin Spacey across the room. I don’t think this place has caught on yet, go now so you can say you were old school in a year or two.

Shipped on 07/28/05.

The secret to this place is that it’s just really tasty. Even the water tastes good. They have the best cheese plate this side of France, and their meat plate is wacky and delicious as well. Once, I ordered a bowl of almonds and even that was good. Go here, and go here often!

Have we mentioned Gusty?

As you may know, all the releases at the Robot Co-op are named after My Little Ponies. When we work on a new release, we always leave a few great features behind. It’s part of the wisdom we learned from DHH: “Instead of launching a half-assed product, just launch half the product”.

Almost 30 days ago we pushed out 43 Places, and to get it out the door we left behind more than 20 great features. Starting last week and continuing through today, we’ve been adding back some of the features we left behind

So let me tell you about Gusty! One of our favorite new feature we call “tag browsing”. Looking for a good breakfast place in San Francisco or a seafood place in Seattle? Maybe you are more particular. Perhaps you just want Seattle Japanese seafood. You have entered the realm of multi-faceted tag surfing.

Here’s another: have you wondered about what some of the places you love look like from outerspace? Here’s the Piazza San Marco in Venezia, Il Colosseo (The Coloseum) in Roma, and the Washington Monument in Washington, DC. Want to help put more places on the map? Scroll down to the bottom of any page and click the “Help locate this place” link. I’m glad we’ve got that Google Dev team working for us.

Here is a shot of the task cards we’ve been working on over the last few weeks. We’ll fill you in on a few more of the new features over the next few days.

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My contribution to this photo pool.

We recently added a report a problem with this page link at the bottom of 43 Places pages. Think of it as a “How’s Our Driving?” bumper sticker. The rockstar problem reporter is currently Garland with 46 problems out of 104 total reported. Problems can be classified as:

• wrong name/mispelled
• wrong place in hierarchy
• duplicate place
• bad photos
• other

Feel free to jump in and report issues on 43 Places pages. We tend to resolve problems within a day or so—and the problem remains documented via the report a problem with this page link at the bottom of the page.

43 Places Person of the Day

garland wants to go 36 places…

We recently added a “report a problem with this page” link at the bottom of 43 Places pages. Think of it as a “How’s Our Driving?” bumper sticker—you can let us know about miscategorized places, duplicate places, and other problems that require a bit more work to fix than is currently available on the site. The rockstar problem reporter is currently Garland who let us know about 46 out of 104 total problems reported. Problems can be classified as:

• The place has a wrong/mispelled name
• The place should be somewhere else in the hierarchy
• It’s a duplicate place
• The photos for the place are offensive or inaccurate
• The catch-all “other”

Feel free to jump in and report issues on 43 Places pages. We tend to resolve problems within a day or so—and the problem remains documented via the report a problem with this page link at the bottom of the page.

As we learn more about how people are adding places, and how places within a place grow, we’ll be opening up some of these tools to the general public. For now, thank you Garland, and all of the others who are helping keep the site a bit more organized.

43 Places Person of the Day

garland wants to go 36 places…