The owners of two of the more well-known baseballs from the 2007 MLB season have put up polls on what to do with them. Barry Bonds first tied Hank Aaron’s record with home run number 755; choose that ball’s fate at endthedebate.com. Then Bonds broke the record with number 756; add your vote on that ball at vote756.com (you have until the 25th of September to vote). You can read more about the second ball in an article at Yahoo!.
It looks like Farecast has finally added some more cities to its list for checking flights and fares. It looks like it doesn’t yet handle trips which require a plane change along the route (Fort Lauderdale/San Diego springs to mind). The database also is missing at least one growing carrier: Jetblue. Let’s hope they continue to improve the site.
Last night the family was watching a show on the Nippon Television Network (there’s a link in English) called Bouken! Cheers!! One segment was on having fun with a handheld GPS. Guess what they were doing? Looking for confluences in Japan. Don’t know what a confluence is? It’s the meeting point of all 0′s in the latitude and longitude minutes and seconds. The Degree Confluence Project calls them “latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world”.
Anyway, the Boken Cheers folks are working to go to the “pointzero” spots in Japan. If you checked the confluence site above, you may have noticed that this has been under way for almost five years now. The cool thing for me is that I logged the first confluence in Japan. I also got the second. As I write this, 48 of the 96 confluences for Japan have been logged. I just thought you should know.