Google Books

I made surprising discoveries in google books. I thought they just scanned copyright free classics but I found Janet Evanovich books, the whole Kerry Greenwood Phryne Fisher series and best of all "One For Sorrow" the 1st in the John the Eunuch series. Its a mystery set in C6th Byzantium. I have the 4th book & couldn't find the rest before they went out of print. Dont think I could stare at a screen to read the whole thing-I still prefer paperbacks.

Google maps

Turns out I'd been seeing google maps for a while without realising it. They keep popping up as links when I look for shops in Sydney. Google maps seems to combine yellow pages & whereis, so you use just 1 tool to easily look up places when you don’t know their exact address.
Have to say that I prefer whereis.com.au when I already have the exact address of where I'm going.
For info of exactly where a business is on a street yellowpages.com.au maps are clearer.
I like GoogleMaps satellite maps better & searched for my favorite needlework store.

MySpace & Facebook

I've created MySpace and Facebook accounts. Found some familiar faces in the Swinnie part of Facebook. MySpace looks like it would take lots of time to customise and would duplicate things I've already set up in Blogger like RSS feeds. The search facility is a bit of a blunt instrument, it would be good if it ranked sites in order of relevance (like how often your searchword is tagged in a page)

I made a search in MySpace for El Santo because I'm a fan of 1950's, 60's & 70's masked mexican wrester films - Des Mangan used to show them on SBS and got me hooked. Since then ACMI at Fed Square have shown a couple, but mostly I find DVDs 2nd hand at Dixons. I've gathered a library of over half a dozen. Here's the cover of one of the DVDs I have at home.

The 1st page of MySpace results were rubbish, I changed to searching MySpaceBlogs and had better luck. I found this neat page www.myspace.com/bluedemon1922 dedicated to Blue Demon who teamed up with El Santo & also made solo films. Its a popular site, 857 friends! There's cinema lobby cards, posters & film clips with funky music.

RSS Feeds

Set up a google feed reader today and added a subscription to DIGG Videos to it. It will be a handy way to find out which clips everyone's buzzing about. I also added feeds from Soviet Poster A Day and Shibuya 109 which I decided to also display in Widgets on my blog. Getting the Widget onto my blog took ages. Making the Widgets was easy and they loaded into Google Reader no probs getting them into blogger was harder. I was clicking on Get Blog list and getting an XML error but eventually I found if I clicked on the Layout Widget button it worked straight away.

Forgot to mention that I've commented on other folks blogs. I remember leaving comments on the blogs of Fiona's 23 Things & Tokyo Trash Baby, there could be others I cant remember. It's fun guessing who everyone is.