I love this video.  Not only is LL Cool J smokin’, but J Lo is back where she belongs… slamming her ga-dunk ga-dunk dunk and singing a little groove lick.  Stay, J Lo, stay. 

Uno, dos, tres, muevete.

Almost immediately after Google launched Google Maps, a spattering of web-based applications based on the mapping technology starting popping up. So this might not exactly be cutting edge news. But I just had to highlight my two favorites so far:

HousingMaps.com - This site integrates Craigslist apartment listings for most major cities, and places the titles and photos of listings as pins on a Google Map. Rad. This is actually how we found our apartment here in Vancouver. Much to my joy, I stumbled across this site during at the end of our year in Boston. You can quickly click from pin to pin, looking at photos of listings by neighborhood…. which is really a great way to search amidst a sea of available apartments. Suddenly the deceptive “5 minutes to downtown!” line those shifty real estate agents use in ads, just doesn’t pull like it used to.

WalkJogRun.net - This site lets you draw your own routes on a Google Map, and it adds up the distance of that route. As a big runner, this is sweet. I’m able to map out my runs, create new ones based on distance, and save/bookmark them. If that wasn’t cool enough, it also lets you browse the routes others are running, in your city and all over.

I just wanted to give a big thanks to the visitors that felt compelled to toss a little something my way via my TipJar. TipJar pays for this trippy blog via auto-pay, so your tips go right into keepin’ it rollin. Since tippers aren’t required to disclose their email address when they tip, I’m unable to thank them personally. So to those of you who wanted to show gratitude with a clink in the jar, big or small… many thanks!

Joining the ranks of many bored 15 year olds with broadband access, I’ve recently signed up for a myspace account. I did so to reconnect with old highschool friends, as I was finding a scattering of them online with myspace profiles. Of course, it’s become one site that regularly wastes my time - and myspace is the king of all time-wasters - but occasionally I find something worthwhile. With myspace, it’s the musicians I’ve come across, that’s really made my time on the site memorable.

Dan Paul was my first find. He’s a talented singer/songwriter from Dallas, Texas, who has 4 of his
songs featured on his myspace account. If I had to toss a “if you like [blank], you’ll like [blank]” on this guy, I’d say if you like The Postal Service, you’ll like Dan Paul. Something about the thoughtful song lyrics, kind voice, and electronic production give off a great vibe. I dig it.

Check out his music. Perspective is my favorite. Say That It Mattered is the only non-electronic track. It’s just him and a piano, and is pretty raw and emotional.

Listen to Dan Paul’s Music on his MySpace