I really don’t like driving. Really. That’s why I live in Los Angeles (actually, Long Beach). I try to take public transportation when possible, which is almost impossible where I live, save the occasional trip to Belmont Shore.

If you don’t like driving and want to get moving without a car, use Google Transit. They aren’t supporting every city yet, but they have Los Angeles and Orange County, which alone shocks me.

All I did was enter in the address I started at, where I wanted to go, and Google did the rest: suggest several locations of “Did you mean?”, showed my alternate routes, and which bus routes I would have to take. 

What is amazing about the tie in to their massive search database is that you don’t even have to enter in addresses; you can enter in a business name, it will show you a number of options (say, a restaurant, or your workplace). It also supports multimodal transportation, like going from subway to bus to train in New York City, elegantly.

In times of breaking news and shocking events, it’s best to have a go-to website for news and content, and there’s no substitute for the old grey lady, the New York Times. While they might not be groundbreaking in their site design, this is one of the easiest sites on the web to navigate, the content has gotten better in recent years, and there’s just something about reading a newspaper of record.

And…

(I know, it’s been around for a while, but it’s still nifty…)

If you want to see something really cool, try the SilverLight version of the paper. It’s slick because it downloads the paper local, so you can read it offline. If looks like the real version of the New York Times, complete with the type, and if you resize the window, it resizes the article and the number of columns.

It automatically syncs when online like RSS Feeds, and the advertisements are overly obtrusive. It’s not free (and I’m a firm believer that all content shouldn’t be free) but at $15 a month, is cheaper than getting the paper delivered.

Would you pay $15 a month for this service?

It’s not so much of a website as an idea: an unconference where the topics are tactical as well as visionary. Where I work at, we’ve been sponsoring BarCamp Los Angeles for a while, and the coverage of cities is amazing.

For the special person who doesn’t have enough t-shirts.

Not so much a website, but a new browser application (or software platform, as some sites like to state) to check out. It looks like it uses the WebKit rendering engine, so think Safari with a different UI.

It does look pretty slick, but Windows-only for this first Beta. But a slick UI doesn’t not a new platform make, kids.

It’s been around forever, but for me, this site never gets old. It’s based on the film connections of Kevin Bacon, and illustrates the power of super-connectors in network models (and that whole six degrees thing). But, did you know there are actors that are more connected than Kevin? Read on…

Upload a photo and get a really bad retro picture of yourself in a yearbook.

That’s a hoot.

Funny as hell. Enough said.

F*** me dead I just opened mine eyes, and lo! I have not updated this since I fell in love. You would not believe that I actually have a life. Jealous much? Don’t be, it was very painful.

I am recuperating with drinking a lot of water, playing The Sims, just generally being a coach to the local soccer team, my day lasts forever from 4:55am to till I fall into bed at midnight. I am so over it. I need a holiday.

I wish one day I will have time to blog again. One day I will find my magic genie! I keep looking, anyway!

It’s a great blog community, evoling as blogs have. More importantly, it’s a comfortable community, as in they don’t get all snooty like some bloggers do.

The best websites are the sites that do something for you without doing any work, and Flight Stats fits that bill. The site is prefect for the traveller that wants to know how long their flight is delayed, and other information like on-time statistics and airports around the country. Everything is easy to use (notice I didn’t say attractive, I said easy to use), and most importantly, they send you updates on how long your flight is delayed to all kinds of devices.

Let’s put it this way — it’s perfect for an evening at SFO.