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06/22/2005: Hope he doesn't mind the "publicity"....
One of the members of a mailing list which I happen to "own" (i.e., administrate) is Stan Schwarz, who also maintains Our Obligatory Blog out of the same webspace. Stan is by day a sysadmin for the U.S. Geological Survey's Pasadena Field Office, which means that he supports the computer systems for a group of seismologists. In his spare time (among other activities, I assume), he cruises both the real and virtual worlds finding interesting things....
In the real world, Stan got a mention in Steve Harvey's L.A. Times column for finding an interesting traffic sign, and gets occasional mentions in the local news in connection with earthquakes in his area causing a huge jump in hits on his webserver.
In the virtual world, I like his discovery that Google Maps can be used for some virtual atomic tourism. Were you aware that some craters from late '50s and early '60s nuclear testing can be seen in satellite photos? Take a gander at the links that Stan's unearthed, and you will be....
Len on 06.22.05 @ 01:49 PM CST