Infospigot: The ChroniclesThe times, the life, the dribbling, of an information spigot.(Untitled)- June 11, 2004 Names on the landI printed out a little map from Yahoo! Maps yesterday because I was driving over to the scary suburbs of northern Contra Costa County to pick up a box of tile. I noticed this morning that the map contained the name of a place I'd never heard of before and thought was a humorous misprint: "Herpoooo." I know that somemapmakers salt their products with deliberate errors to catchcartographic thieves who betray themselves by repeating the mistakes. I was wrong on two counts. First,..http://radio.weblogs.com/0130494/2004/06/11.html#a158 (Untitled)- June 11, 2004 Slice of life Nice little reading from Harper's online site -- the transcript of a call from an Oklahoma prison inmate to his parents after his funeral: KEVIN: Hey, Momma. MARTHA: Kevin, I cannot believe this. KEVIN: Wait. It&146;s not my fault. MARTHA: We buried you today, boy.http://radio.weblogs.com/0130494/2004/06/11.html#a157 (Untitled)- June 11, 2004 Funeral, hold the blather Kate wanted to watch the Reagan service before she went off to school this morning, so she turned on CNN about 6:30. Within a minute or so, one of the "hosts" asked such an offensively insipid question about Reagan's legacy that we switched to C-SPAN's coverage. Not a new observation, of course, but it's great to get a chance to watch events like this free of the network's insistence on providing running commentary on everything. Aside from the awful quality of most of.http://radio.weblogs.com/0130494/2004/06/11.html#a156 |