Kevin's Watch

This probably belongs in Vespers, but it so SO good it deserves a wider audience!

If you use google chrome and have a half-decent pc, try this...

www.thewildernessdowntown.com/

Great visuals, tailored to YOU, and Arcade Fire to boot!

(Make sure you type things in, or draw pictures, when it asks you to!)

Hmm... doesnt work for me. I get 7 popups blocked by my add blocker but my add blocker isnt running.

ohhh it works!!!! Clearing the cache helps.

Sob... big memories.

You lost me at "Arcade Fire".

(Nevermind that I don't use Chrome, and designing websites that don't work in most browsers is a bad move no matter how good you think the one browser it works in is.)

Heh. Pretty cool. Definitely worth playing around with even though I couldn't use my street address (something about not enough map info available.) I really liked the postcard bit.

The sad thing is that I put in my address where I grew up and did even recognize where I spent the first 20 years of my life due to the landscape change post-Katrina.

Just to make sure that the software really worked, I put in my current address.

Some of the footage is a little dated as I still saw FEMA trailers around my childhood neighborhood.

Pretty cool, even though it said it didn't have enough info on my area.

The mullberry tree that I climbed in until I was 12 is gone. Bastards cut down my special tree!

Best way to display "LOADING 22%" ever.

Seems to depend on whether Google Earth have taken 3D pics of your area.

Might be a good thing if you can't access your street!

hee...I got Chrome today, just to see this.
It couldn't do my area, but it was fun for a nearby one...but I'm loving Chrome. It's way way faster than IE, or Firefox. [layout/function is taking some getting used to.]