I answered your second question before you even posted it.
I have the gift of Internet Prescience.

Either that or you just copied me. Stinky.

Also ... fuck the ipod compass ... get a proper phone with GPS you great cheese-swinging prancer.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 12 May 2009, 19:12, archived)

my current one's got that
and so does the iphone..but compass! I could twitter people telling them I'm facing north! Or west! go west!
( moohalaa, Tue 12 May 2009, 19:13, archived)

Get a backtrack.
Then not only can you tell them you are facing west. You can tell them you are facing them.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 12 May 2009, 19:15, archived)