I finally got into mapping. For starters, I’ve created maps of places I visited and of places I used to live at. The former is very incomplete (I traveled quite a lot and a lot of that as a child, so I don’t remember everything).

If you spot mistakes or omissions, or if you’d like to show me your own maps, go ahead and post a comment.

Facebook just announced the new Lexicon feature, which allows one to search for terms in the wall posts of all users. I thought I might as well give it a try.

As you can see for yourself, people don’t seem to talk much about philosophy. That’s not news, but what is surprising and revealing, is that people talk a lot more about shopping than they do about sex (always, and especially before the merry season).

Usually I try not to buy tickets from that particular online vendor¹, but this time I had to. And when my Autechre tickets arrived in the post today, I was a bit suprised, because when I took them out of the envelope all I could see was a writing in block capitals:

Aha, I thought, what a progressive and cool ticket shop they are, now they are making surrealist references. Well, turns out they simply print the receipt on the same paper as the ticket, and want to make it clear that this particular card isn’t a ticket - the other two attached cards are. Still, I wonder if anyone else noticed.

1. See Tickets (no link since I don’t want to needlessly increase their page rank). They are shameless spammers, sending advertisements for shows I have absolutely no interest in several times a week and providing no obvious (or working) opt-out link. The spam gets handled by my filters, of course, but what’s worse is whenever I am forced to buy tickets from them, I end up having to fish for the receipt in my spam folder. beh.