links for 2008-02-26

• Graticule
  Graticule is a geocoding API for looking up address coordinates and performing distance calculations. It supports many popular APIs, including:

  * Yahoo
  * Google
  * Geocoder.ca
  * Geocoder.us
  * PostcodeAnywhere
  * MetaCarta

  (tags: api rails ruby rubyonrails geocoding goecode geographical)
• Botanicalls Twitter DIY
  Botanicalls Twitter answers the question: What’s up with your plant? It offers a connection to your leafy pal via online Twitter status updates that reach you anywhere in the world. When your plant needs water, it will post to let you know
  (tags: hacks hacking electronics arduino interface)
• TimesMachine - New York Times
  TimesMachine can take you back to any issue from Volume 1, Number 1 of The New-York Daily Times, on September 18, 1851, through The New York Times of December 30, 1922. Choose a date in history and flip electronically through the pages
  (tags: times newyorktimes newspapers newspaper online)
• Google Static Maps API - Google Code
  The Google Static Maps API lets you embed a Google Maps image on your webpage without requiring JavaScript or any dynamic page loading.
  (tags: maps mapping google googlemaps code coding development)
• Adobe - Design Center : Using Flash for the first time – Part 1: Building a banner
  (tags: flash tutorial)
• CEB Press - Open Souce Ecology
  This page is an introduction to the collaborative development of a high performance Compressed Earth Block (CEB) press, The Liberator. We aim to provide a low-cost, ecological, ergonomical, and economically-significant press.
  (tags: opensource ecology engineering)