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ZSubway: The New York City subway on your iPod
ZSubway is a collection of New York City subway maps and schedules that you can download to your iPod (and some other portable media players). It's amazingly simple - just a bunch of images, really - and yet immensely useful.This is something all cities should have, in my opinion. When I think of the ways mobile technology is "revolutionizing" our lives, I think the most important changes come in the form of these seemingly small things. No, there's nothing flashy or exciting about subway maps. But ZSubway ranks very high on the usefulness scale. No more having to carry a map around with you, or look for a map (much less a schedule) in a deserted station, or call a customer service number. I don't know about you, but every minute I save is precious, and convenience is much more important than bells and whistles.
So let this be a message to other cities - it's time to get on-board and provide iPod-friendly transit maps.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Gil Creque said 6:23PM on 11-27-2006
This site has had maps like this for a while now.
http://www.isubwaymaps.com/download.php
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Randall Bennett said 8:34AM on 11-28-2006
I didn't know DLSQ was hip enough to be allowed to use the L on this post =)
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