Kurdish music city, usa: According to AP, “Nashville is one of five American cities where Iraqi expatriates can vote, and nearly 4,000 of them are registered here more than Los Angeles and Washington. Detroit and Chicago have more. There are an estimated 8,000 Kurds living in Nashville, which they call ”Little Kurdistan.” It is the largest community in the United States of Kurds.”

(via instapundit)

One-click resume enhancement: Damon Darlin on the Business 2.0 blog, B2Day, has invented a new game he predicts (and I agree) could become the Time Waster of the Week. Using the new (and amazingly worthless) “search people” feature on the search engine, Business.com (click “People), type in a name and you’ll get something that resembles a virtual resume. However, the results you get may include one or more entry that will be downright hilarious. For example, do a search on the name Jake Winebaum, the founder and CEO of Business.com, and the results will include that he was the founder of Earthlink. Huh? Talk about resume enhancement. (note: Earthlink founder Sky Dayton was involved in the creation of Business.com and serves on its board, so there is a connection, but not the one implied in the results)

Damon has examples of some other funny results.

Shout-out: I have this tradition of not blogging magazine transactions or personnel news unless it involves a shout-out to a friend. So, here’s a shout-out to one of my favorite people in the magazine world (magasphere?), Alan Douglas, whose company just acquired another company and now is a whole lot bigger company.

In the race to extend magazine brands: Car and Driver magazine is introducing the “Car and Driver Race Series — powered by Precision Racing.” This means you, too, can be a race car driver: According to the press release, “No racing experience will be required and anyone can participate with their own car in a nationwide program, with no cops, no tickets and no clubs to join.” Participants will be charged with three driving skill challenges. Winners of these competitions in each market will ultimately compete in a national two-day championship. Entry fee is $99. Complete series information will be available (someday, but not now) at www.caranddriverraceseries.com.

I’m afraid if I participated in this, I’d have to change the name of this weblog to WRECKSblog.com

Internet time: The announcement today of A9’s new feature that allows the user to access “yellow pages”-like information and then, metaphorically speaking, walk down the street and see photos of the store and other stores along the street immediately reminded me of one of the first “ah-ha” moments I ever had regarding what we used to call back then, “hypermedia.” The 1978 Aspen Movie Map, according to the Wikipedia entry about it, ” allowed the user to take a virtual tour through the city of Aspen, Colorado. This was accomplished with the use of four video cameras, which were pointed in different directions and took video footage while mounted on the back of a truck through the streets of Aspen.” Anyone who saw a demo of that project was, like me, in awe. Everytime I see a videogame, I think back to that demo.

As you can see from this promotional video about the A9 feature (the feature is available in 10 cities now), the method Amazon.com used is nearly identical…and just think, it only took 27 years to pull off.

Update: John Battelle explains the new feature in a story for Business 2.0.

Magazine guy: Jeff Jarvis, who is known today as both “blogger boy” and “media guy,” was the founding editor of Entertainment Weekly, which he can’t believe is celebrating its 15th anniversary. Sorry, Jeff. Believe it.