360cities.net provides panoramic city photos, awesomeness
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The website 360cities.net allows users to select from among the world’s most popular travel destinations,  and load a panoramic, 360-degree photograph that can be “explored”.  This technology has been around for a while in the form of “virtual tours” of houses and apartments.  At 360cities.net, it’s extended to cool locations that you actually want to see, like the Great Pyramids at Giza.  Better yet, it integrates with Google Earth, so you can pull up a location in Google Earth and then get down on the ground of that location with 360cities.net.  I’m stoked.

Richrod finally names season captains, now that the season is over
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Michael Massey, Terrence Taylor, Will Johnson and Tim Jamison have been named season captains for the Michigan Wolverines.  There are a handful of interesting things to note about this seemingly mundane news.  First, who are these guys?  Note that none of these captains are marquee play-makers.  No quarterbacks, no running backs, no wide receivers.  Think about where the team leadership is coming from; it’s coming from the defensive line.  Veddy interesting, methinks.  Second, why so late?  The captains were selected less than a week before the final game of the season.  In other words, they were rewarded for their natural leadership, rather than selected ahead of time to actually fill the role of leaders.  This lends massive credence to my theory that part of Michigan’s problem is that there is no leadership on the field.