beamjockey (beamjockey) wrote,
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beamjockey

William Gibson Vindicated, Yet Again

Wow.

Spotted this on BoingBoing.

If you are cruising, and you find something cool that's been put out at the curb, and you don't want to scrounge it yourself, you can assist fellow trashpickers. Shoot a photo of it. Then post it to the site where phonecam pictures are pinned to Google Maps of their street locations.

Never has "the street finds its own uses for things, uses the manufacturers never imagined" been more true...
Tags: cellphones, dumpster diving, google, junk, maps, surplus
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