I just love this one. Why isn’t every geek building it?

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If you’re Canadian and you want the iPhone and you don’t want to deal with the outrageous pricing Rogers communication is affixing to the phone, then get click the pic and sign the petition.

Or, you can do what probably 99+% of you will do and that’s to just suck it up and pay like the rest of us sheep. Where the heck are the supposed “iPhone killers” that are supposed to quell the hysteria over this damn phone?

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Ever wanted to see map of what crops are being raised in the US?  Or animals?  Maybe the distribution of cash, and its density in geography?  These, and many other bizarre maps can be viewed at the Radical Cartography website.

My favorite map they have is an animation that shows the growing need for telephone area codes over the past several decades.

The Awesome Highlighter is a web service that will open any web page in their own frame and allow you to drag a highlighter marker around the page, marking up anything you want. The Awesome Highlighter service will archive your page and you can link to it so others can see your page of interest with the more interesting or relevant text marked up.

They also have a Firefox add-on.

Here’s a sample screenshot of a marked up Geeknews article: