Have you checked out the satellite feature on Google Maps? Thanks to this technology, I was able to dig up image of my houses, past and present. Above is my high school, and that damn football field they used to make me “run” laps on. Imagine how neat this would be combined with the [...]
April 15th, 2005
Read...Click here for the Flickr photo gallery So, what happens when you put the managers for four alternative weeklies on a boat full of beer? I’ll give you a hint: no wet t-shirts.
April 15th, 2005
Read...Trying to disenfranchise voters by requiring them to produce government-issued IDs. Only trouble is, we already made it more difficult to get IDs by requiring folks to bring in all sorts of stuff they don’t own — like birth certificates. (Honestly, where is yours?) Does this disproportionately affect minorities and poor folks? You betcha … Trying [...]
April 14th, 2005
Read...Lemme just do a rant. Readers know I’m a little … er, slow when it comes to figuring out the comment spam thang. (Don’t you worry, the kid’s got a plan.) I’m just a little frustrated that all of these spammers are cloggin’ my blog when I’m totally in favor of their products. Cheap Valium? [...]
April 14th, 2005
Read...Anybody else getting the feeling that Michael Jackson is just the prince regent surrounded by evil viceroys?
April 14th, 2005
Read...Um, how is this OK? CNN.com’s top story at the moment features absolutely no on the record sources. Literally, not one. This is a rather big story … “our sources” are claiming they’ve nabbed 10,000 criminals in a week, including murderers and rapists. Imagine how 10,000 could be arrested in this country, and there is [...]
April 14th, 2005
Read...Had an interesting exchange in the cab this morning. “810 N. Howard please, above Kennedy. It’s the Weekly Planet, do you know it?” “Oh yeah. That’s the newspaper, right? I like it. Are you a journalist?” “Kinda. I’m a web journalist.” “A Blogger?” “(Not hearing) … Internet journalist.” “A Blogger?” “Oh. Yeah.” How neat, right? People really are starting to hear about blogging. [...]
April 14th, 2005
Read...This is it? Corporate Lunch? For months, I sat on the sidelines as the corporate hotshots ate their fancy business lunches. Peons like myself sat on the sidelines, hoping the big wigs would get their full early, and there would be some crumbs left for us. But today, [...]
April 13th, 2005
Read...Mormon MARTA Attack! Alright. You wouldn’t believe it unless I took the picture. I’m sitting on Marta, stressing out about work and worrying about missing my plane; getting all kinds of pissed off when … in troop about six happy go-lucky Mormons! Literally, within minutes, all of them [...]
April 13th, 2005
Read...Yikes. AAN.org debuted a redesign. And momma, is it a doozy. They tried hard … see … For years now, AAN.org has had interesting features and content, but a great deal of it was hidden behind an opaque interface. The redesign unveils these formerly hidden features; starting today, you should be able to figure out how [...]
April 12th, 2005
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