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You mean This Lee R. West?

Only lives about 15 miles from the courthouse.

Of course Mapquest could be wrong...

Anyone feel like giving it a try?

Otherwise known as somewhere along Paramount Boulevard, southeast of Los Angeles... (does anyone else care?)

This is a wonderful idea. Sites like Yahoo already have Yellow Pages that do similar things. Hopefully Google can make it even better. I definitely believe MapQuest is a big improvement over Yahoo Maps. Nice to see that Google has started out small (just search engine), made their services FAR better than any competitor, and are now, finally, expanding.

The mapquest yellow pages work great for businesses like the example. (Did that very search for pizza places just a couple weeks ago).

Sounds like to win any money you have to travel, so keep that in mind when you sign up.

But like you said, they're paying for the transportation to Mountain View, plus hotel accomodations... I think I can deal with the other expenses.

Plugins have made browsers worse, rather than better. Some sites are unusable WITHOUT having Flash.

The browsers have been going downhill since the <img> tag. You might be able to read slashdot from lynx, but just try terraserver or mapquest from a text mode browser!

Don't even get me started on the graphic requirements for registering a user at yahoo or Network Soltions.

US Federal law says that staff who earn part of their wages from tips must be paid at least $2.13/hr.

Many restraunts do that. You work, you get $2.25/hr (or whatever the boss is nice enough to pay you). So in most places, the staff are very dependant on your tips.

I tip 20%, and then adjust by service. If the service seriously sucked ass, you may get nothing. If you were really good, you may get 20% rounded up to the nearest $10. ($85 dollar meal would get a $20 tip). Knowing most people are complete idiots who don't tip for good service, it's worth it for me for two reasons. 1) they deserve decent pay if they did a good job. 2) I expect good service next time I come in, and will probably get it. Usually if I tip well and come back another day, I get better than average service. Places I go regularly, I don't have to ask for my drink, they'll have it ready by the time I'm seated.

But, tipping doesn't excuse impoliteness. Well, you probably wouldn't get a tip if you're looking at all your customers saying "What kind of idiot....", but the polite waiter gets pleases and thank you's, and a good tip.

But in some parts of the world, this isn't expected or acceptable. I gave a taxi driver in Europe a $10 tip for getting me from point A to point B in no time. He was polite, held the door for me, yada, yada, yada. He was completely flabergasted that I gave him anything extra.

In New York, I gave a taxi driver $20 for getting me from Times Square to the WTC in less than 5 minutes. Of course, stop lights and lane markings are frequently meaningless, so that helped accomplish the time. :) It saved my ass though, I had to be in like 3 places at once, and got everything accomplished on a very short timetable.

In some US cities, you may be lucky the car doesn't hit you driving away if you don't tip.

Flight attendants don't take tips, and get offended when you offer one. I haven't quite figured that one out yet. If I buy a beer from a fight attendant, they are the bartender, and the bartender always get tipped.

So, maybe in the UK you don't take tips, fine. In some countries it's most of the money that they make. In some jobs it's the majority of their paycheck.

I don't tip because I have extra money. I tip because I've worked just about every shit job there is at some point in time, and can completely relate to them having to deal with asshole customers every day who think that $2.25/hr actually pays the rent in most metro areas.

Mapquest says it's valid, but no gaurantee that the actual owner is the spammer in question...

Hmm, my first thought was that the address sounded like an upscale neighborhood, but the aerial photo seems to show apartment buildings. Anybody want to drive by and visit?

Mapquest says it's valid, but no gaurantee that the actual owner is the spammer in question...

Hmm, my first thought was that the address sounded like an upscale neighborhood, but the aerial photo seems to show apartment buildings. Anybody want to drive by and visit?

I think his house is the one with the pool. You will have to zoom in, it's in the center of the screen. Of course, just hit "Street Map" to see where this is. I wish I was really in a plane so I could spit on his house.

I still use maps.yahoo.com
in my opinion its still the best map finder on the web.
Fuck mapquest

No, he was talking about the police in Grammer, Indiana

A hard bunch they are.

they are homeless because they are frigen nuts!!!

When I was house-hunting some years ago the state that I reside in made available (online) a list of known sex-offenders and there current addresses. Out of concern for my family I would cross-reference the address of the house I was interested in to the addresses of the offenders by using a number of means like Mapquest.

You would be surprised by the number of known lowlifes living in seemingly safe neighbothoods. Also, if the offender lived at a homeless shelter or halfway-house it gave that info as well. Yeah, many of them are nuts and no I don't want them back in society. Keeping track of them is OK with me.

When I worked as a loan officer at a finance company, I made a loan to one of these perverts who was a janitor at a public school; this, of course, was before I knew what he had done to children.

I've always wondered why urban places end up without local backup for infrastructure needs like power.

In my home town (pop. 325) the power often goes out in the winter. When it does, most of the time they get the big old diesel generator up and running and the town has power again within an hour or so. Day-long blackouts are really rare, even if it takes them that long to find and fix the downed line.

Is there some reason why cities can't have relatively local (say, block by block) emergency backup for things like power?

Or is it just habit, or maybe just being cheap?

I doubt the folks in Downieville have more money than the folks in [big city of your choice].

The densest concentration of technically literate people is
Chantilly, Virginia

(Those in the Boston area will get it).

Well, the millions of liberals making accusations of the president being a Nazi and stealing oil haven't been carted off to jail yet, so I still have faith in free speech being respected.

'Cuse me while I find my clue-by-four...ah, here we go.

WHAP! WHAP! WHAP!

THE VERY FSKING CASE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT INVOLVES A "LIBERAL" BEING CARTED OFF TO JAIL FOR ENGAGING IN ACTS OF SPEECH.

how about I make a website advocating the violent overthrow of you? I'll call for your blood on the website and oh, by the way, I'll link to Mapquest instructions to your house.

As the ruling in "The Nuremberg Files" case (no relation to the actual Nuremberg trials, see the article linked above) states, "Political speech may not be punished just because it makes it more likely that someone will be harmed at some unknown time in the future".

If someone has a gun to my head and you yell "Shoot him! Shoot him now!", that might be be protected speech. But there's plenty of precedent that you can say "Someone ought to blow that guy's head off. Someone should go over to 2119 Arlonne Drive and put a bullet in that longhaired freak's skull," and fall well within First Amendment protection.

It is presumed that the coded is gone. As in tossed in the trash, right. So do it.
Here. 33N 38' 8" by 117W 56' 28" in back, on friday 8th of August at 11:00 pm. in a brown paper bag...
Now you have tossed it in the trash. I'll come pick it up and do a back alley GPLing... All for only a pack of Camels and a Mt. Dew.
Contact me for details.

and a tribute to one very basic principle of teaching and/or lecturing: know your audience.

If you don't teach to them on their level, you'll simply piss them off (either by dumbing it down too much, or by cultivating a sneer and treating them like idiots). I applaud your efforts to understand what your audience truly wants... so many teachers and lecturers either don't care, or have so much ego that it simply fails to occur to them that THEY need to adapt to their audience.

In the vein you mentioned, however... how about a tutorial on the wonders of travel-info sites? URLs like

Mapquest

Cheap tickets

Orbitz

would be good starting points... make the web useful for travelers! (Note: I don't work, directly or indirectly, for ANY of the above organizations or sites)

Check out Mapquest for areial photos of much of the country. Resolution, color, and age of photos vary by location.

If you don't want to spend all the time, you can download some pretty cool aerial maps from Terra Server USA. The pics are B&W and circa 1994 (at least, in Southern California), which makes them less current, but kinda cool to "look back in history".

Additionally, MapQuest has added aerial maps as an option (enter address, retreive regular map, then click the "Aerial Photo" tab ... these are in color, and might be a year old.

The single biggest problem is that Interstate 70 (which runs across the northern section of the state) goes through some of the most MIND-NUMBINGLY BORING terrain I've ever seen, and since that is how most people who cross the state see it they form an unjustified opinion.

Most of Kansas used to be inland see, millenia ago. Hence the flatness - the ocean bottom deposited uniformly across the state.

However, IF you are going to be going through Kansas, let me give you some pointers on where to go:

Southeastern section: Go see Big Brutus in West Mineral, KS.. If you have any interest in mechanical engineering you'll love this.

South Central: The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center has the best collection of Russian space hardware outside Russia itself, as well as US gear. They were the first to be made a Smithsonian partner, and that was as much so that the Smithsonian could gain access to the Cosmospere's collection as the other way around. Hutchinson, KS - and if you were planning on going across on I-70 I's suggest you drop down on I-35 (throught the Flint Hills)to US-50 then across into Hutch. Stop by Yoder, KS and get some Cinnamon Rolls at the Carriage Crossing Restaurant.
If you are going towards New Mexico, drop down and take I-160 from Medicine Lodge through the Gypsum Hills. There IS scenery in Kansas - we just don't run our major roads through it.

North West: If you are heading to Denver, you pretty much have to take either I-70 or K-96. If you are on I-70, stop through Quinter, KS and see Castle Rock, a natural formation akin to the Badlands in South Dakota.
Also, you can go to Monument Rocks which is a similar sort of geography.
Also on I-70 in Hays, KS is the Sternberg Museum of Natural History which will be a hit with any parent of children who are interested in dinosaurs.

The single biggest problem is that Interstate 70 (which runs across the northern section of the state) goes through some of the most MIND-NUMBINGLY BORING terrain I've ever seen, and since that is how most people who cross the state see it they form an unjustified opinion.

Most of Kansas used to be inland see, millenia ago. Hence the flatness - the ocean bottom deposited uniformly across the state.

However, IF you are going to be going through Kansas, let me give you some pointers on where to go:

Southeastern section: Go see Big Brutus in West Mineral, KS.. If you have any interest in mechanical engineering you'll love this.

South Central: The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center has the best collection of Russian space hardware outside Russia itself, as well as US gear. They were the first to be made a Smithsonian partner, and that was as much so that the Smithsonian could gain access to the Cosmospere's collection as the other way around. Hutchinson, KS - and if you were planning on going across on I-70 I's suggest you drop down on I-35 (throught the Flint Hills)to US-50 then across into Hutch. Stop by Yoder, KS and get some Cinnamon Rolls at the Carriage Crossing Restaurant.
If you are going towards New Mexico, drop down and take I-160 from Medicine Lodge through the Gypsum Hills. There IS scenery in Kansas - we just don't run our major roads through it.

North West: If you are heading to Denver, you pretty much have to take either I-70 or K-96. If you are on I-70, stop through Quinter, KS and see Castle Rock, a natural formation akin to the Badlands in South Dakota.
Also, you can go to Monument Rocks which is a similar sort of geography.
Also on I-70 in Hays, KS is the Sternberg Museum of Natural History which will be a hit with any parent of children who are interested in dinosaurs.

The single biggest problem is that Interstate 70 (which runs across the northern section of the state) goes through some of the most MIND-NUMBINGLY BORING terrain I've ever seen, and since that is how most people who cross the state see it they form an unjustified opinion.

Most of Kansas used to be inland see, millenia ago. Hence the flatness - the ocean bottom deposited uniformly across the state.

However, IF you are going to be going through Kansas, let me give you some pointers on where to go:

Southeastern section: Go see Big Brutus in West Mineral, KS.. If you have any interest in mechanical engineering you'll love this.

South Central: The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center has the best collection of Russian space hardware outside Russia itself, as well as US gear. They were the first to be made a Smithsonian partner, and that was as much so that the Smithsonian could gain access to the Cosmospere's collection as the other way around. Hutchinson, KS - and if you were planning on going across on I-70 I's suggest you drop down on I-35 (throught the Flint Hills)to US-50 then across into Hutch. Stop by Yoder, KS and get some Cinnamon Rolls at the Carriage Crossing Restaurant.
If you are going towards New Mexico, drop down and take I-160 from Medicine Lodge through the Gypsum Hills. There IS scenery in Kansas - we just don't run our major roads through it.

North West: If you are heading to Denver, you pretty much have to take either I-70 or K-96. If you are on I-70, stop through Quinter, KS and see Castle Rock, a natural formation akin to the Badlands in South Dakota.
Also, you can go to Monument Rocks which is a similar sort of geography.
Also on I-70 in Hays, KS is the Sternberg Museum of Natural History which will be a hit with any parent of children who are interested in dinosaurs.

The single biggest problem is that Interstate 70 (which runs across the northern section of the state) goes through some of the most MIND-NUMBINGLY BORING terrain I've ever seen, and since that is how most people who cross the state see it they form an unjustified opinion.

Most of Kansas used to be inland see, millenia ago. Hence the flatness - the ocean bottom deposited uniformly across the state.

However, IF you are going to be going through Kansas, let me give you some pointers on where to go:

Southeastern section: Go see Big Brutus in West Mineral, KS.. If you have any interest in mechanical engineering you'll love this.

South Central: The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center has the best collection of Russian space hardware outside Russia itself, as well as US gear. They were the first to be made a Smithsonian partner, and that was as much so that the Smithsonian could gain access to the Cosmospere's collection as the other way around. Hutchinson, KS - and if you were planning on going across on I-70 I's suggest you drop down on I-35 (throught the Flint Hills)to US-50 then across into Hutch. Stop by Yoder, KS and get some Cinnamon Rolls at the Carriage Crossing Restaurant.
If you are going towards New Mexico, drop down and take I-160 from Medicine Lodge through the Gypsum Hills. There IS scenery in Kansas - we just don't run our major roads through it.

North West: If you are heading to Denver, you pretty much have to take either I-70 or K-96. If you are on I-70, stop through Quinter, KS and see Castle Rock, a natural formation akin to the Badlands in South Dakota.
Also, you can go to Monument Rocks which is a similar sort of geography.
Also on I-70 in Hays, KS is the Sternberg Museum of Natural History which will be a hit with any parent of children who are interested in dinosaurs.

The single biggest problem is that Interstate 70 (which runs across the northern section of the state) goes through some of the most MIND-NUMBINGLY BORING terrain I've ever seen, and since that is how most people who cross the state see it they form an unjustified opinion.

Most of Kansas used to be inland see, millenia ago. Hence the flatness - the ocean bottom deposited uniformly across the state.

However, IF you are going to be going through Kansas, let me give you some pointers on where to go:

Southeastern section: Go see Big Brutus in West Mineral, KS.. If you have any interest in mechanical engineering you'll love this.

South Central: The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center has the best collection of Russian space hardware outside Russia itself, as well as US gear. They were the first to be made a Smithsonian partner, and that was as much so that the Smithsonian could gain access to the Cosmospere's collection as the other way around. Hutchinson, KS - and if you were planning on going across on I-70 I's suggest you drop down on I-35 (throught the Flint Hills)to US-50 then across into Hutch. Stop by Yoder, KS and get some Cinnamon Rolls at the Carriage Crossing Restaurant.
If you are going towards New Mexico, drop down and take I-160 from Medicine Lodge through the Gypsum Hills. There IS scenery in Kansas - we just don't run our major roads through it.

North West: If you are heading to Denver, you pretty much have to take either I-70 or K-96. If you are on I-70, stop through Quinter, KS and see Castle Rock, a natural formation akin to the Badlands in South Dakota.
Also, you can go to Monument Rocks which is a similar sort of geography.
Also on I-70 in Hays, KS is the Sternberg Museum of Natural History which will be a hit with any parent of children who are interested in dinosaurs.

The next one could be Baltimore. Severn is my hometown in Maryland.

It's next-door to BWI airport.

Nice. A twisty maze of passages, all alike.

Here's a map to help you out.

Though it is probably the little dorks ex girlfriends house.

Anyone in the Utah area should try to give Mr. McBridge a visit. His address is here. According to MapQuest, the address appears to be in some really dense suburban area. Not what I had imagined some fancy lawyer. Though, according to Yahoo! Financials, a Mr. Darl C. McBride is also the president of SCO. I wonder what is his middle name? Any Linux Users that live on Vintage Oak Lane, or close to his house?

Sir, I find it hard to believe that you've used dial-up internet access recently. Either that or you haven't used broadband recently, since you claim to notice no substantial difference between it and dialup. The length of time required to "register on our awareness" depends heavily on the circumstances surrounding it, and on how long we expect an activity to take. When it comes to pages loading, using broadband gives you the expectation that the activity of loading a page will take almost no time. When you use dialup and, suddenly, the time you're required to allot to page loading is much more than what you expected, you are all too painfully aware of the time differential.

In my apartment, on my cable modem, mapquest takes a second or two to load. The last time I was at my parent's house, using 56k dialup, mapquest took over 20 seconds to load just the front page. Actually downloading directions somewhere took over a minute. Granted, under certain conditions, I don't notice the passage of a minute of time, but staring at a map that's being downloaded isn't one of those conditions.

The culture shock of dialup is part of why I use the internet so little when I'm home... I'd rather have no access at all than slow access. ;)

The US government already has 24 hours to review every image taken by US-owned spacecraft and decide whether or not to make them available based on national security concerns; there's no need to completely shut the thing down.

Not to become a conspiracy nut myself, but there are a couple of big problems with this defense:

One: There are a bazillion (I counted) satellites returning imagery, and probably not a bazillion folks to look over all the images before they're released -- especially not in a 24-hour timeframe.

Two: The withholding of any particular image or set of images is an immediate sign that the image contained useful information.

Assuming this satellite's data was discovered to contain militarily (or commercially!) useful information, the only way to keep both the imagery and its location secret would be to make all imagery unavailable for some reason.

This is the perfect conspiracy theory: it's almost entirely plausible, almost impossible to refute, and we want to believe it!

On the other hand, I can get a pretty good aerial view of Downtown Baghdad any time I want it.

You don't escape taxes by building houses in former meadows/farmland/woods/etc. Let me be more clear. Property taxes encourage density by charging people for land. This encourages them to actually use the land they own.

Land outside the city usually costs less and has less property tax (especially if it is outside the city limits.... erm...)

Most parks, arenas, museums, galleries, symphonies, etc I know of charge money. And most highways don't go through cities, they go around cities. And those highways that do go through cities are generally only used by people who live or work in that city (and therefore pay taxes to that city).

You are probably right. But there are plenty of interstate highways that do. Some don't even have bypasses! On of the worst (which has lots of interstate and international traffic) is this one.

There is a Hudson Street and Hudson Place and Hudson Street Extension all meeting in zipcode 14850.

You are also guaranteed that two streets with the same name are never in the same ZIP code

You mean like the streets that come to the corner of Trenton St. and Trenton St. (in Zip Code 02128) or maybe the two streets that come to the corner of Tremont St. and Treemont St. in zipcode 02108.

Also - with this system, each code is a 1 square METER block. Slightly different scale there. (Where people are getting mile from meter is beyond me, but whatever...)

You are also guaranteed that two streets with the same name are never in the same ZIP code

You mean like the streets that come to the corner of Trenton St. and Trenton St. (in Zip Code 02128) or maybe the two streets that come to the corner of Tremont St. and Treemont St. in zipcode 02108.

Also - with this system, each code is a 1 square METER block. Slightly different scale there. (Where people are getting mile from meter is beyond me, but whatever...)

McBride, Darl C
1799 Vintage Oak Lane
HOLLADAY, UT 84121
801-424-2006

here's his commute - let's memorize his ugly mug so we can treat him to a cream pie soon.

Since PBS took down their Blast Mapper page, click here or here and use a marker on the screen to draw in zones of destruction to taste. :^)

Since PBS took down their Blast Mapper page, click here or here and use a marker on the screen to draw in zones of destruction to taste. :^)

pbs.org has switched off their Blast Mapper page. I wanted to see how many kilotonnes it would take. (It laid various effects circles on top of a map given an address.) This just isn't as fun!

Some Americans are too lazy to walk to the mailbox, and some are energetic enough when some twit goes riding around the apartment complex on his "Unique Two Wheeled Motorized Walking Machine", or riding past the trailer park next door showing off that he has a $5000 bicycle, when their houses aren't worth $5000.

The Smoking Gun was nice enough to leave his address unobscured, so We can see exactly where he lives:

1810 Maple Ln
Kent, WA 98030-7426

I can just picture the old man riding his overpriced mutant bicycle down the roads at 10mph, blocking traffic and annoying everyone in the area. Some kid probably grabbed it, and ditched it in the river.

You mean Wahoo

Latitude: 45 53S. Longitude: 170 30E

There.

Those coordinates seem to point to a place known as Green Island, located in New Zealand.

here's a map.

In British Columbia, DSL service is available in almost ever city with more than a couple thousand people, including places like Quesnel, which is more or less in the middle of nowhere.

Well, I signed up for both the Linux meetup and Slashdot meetup in my area.

Since then, not one has gone off - not enough people can be bothered to even VOTE on a place to meet up - let alone show up.

In a town of .5 million I'd think that there would be at least 5 (10 ppm) people who would want an excuse to go out into the Big Blue Room.

For all you normal people, it's here.

Then you're probably going to come at Bellingham from the South.

In which case, the best place to get great road snacks (fresh baked scones, muffins, bread, coffees) and non-greasy (no fryers in the place) food on the trip is probably going to be the Calico Cupboard in Mt. Vernon, near exit 226.

I always find myself stopping there on the way to Seattle. Taking exit 226 and turning West on Kincaid street, you'll hit 1st street. Turning north onto 1st, you'll drive past a good pizza place, a great Thai restaurant and an outstanding (hippie, veganesque) food co-oop all on the right with substantial amounts of serv in food (I'd call it a deli, but I don't recall any meat there :) ). Just across Division, the large brick building on the left is CC, and there is a pretty decent bookstore attached (and accessible from the restaurant while your waiting).

On the East side of the freeway a mile North is a decent sized mall with a many-screens movie theater (a Google-Plex?) and a See's Candies for any family members that will be bored to tears at a LinuxFest. Adjacent to those (to the South) is a largish outlet mall as well (for the shopping addicted).

I hope this is of help to those whose families are not entirely composed of Penguinistas; Hope to see you there.

What about FrontPage?

Here's a list of MS Office (XP) apps:

Word (OO.org/SO Writer)
Excel (OO.org Calc?)
PowerPoint (OO.org/SO Impress)
Outlook (Evolution)
Access (SO Adabas D, but it's not free)
Publisher (Wing it with Writer)
FrontPage (OO.org/SO Web, but it doesn't support the "Web" concept)
MapPoint (MapQuest, but that sux, and doesn't have nearly as many mapping tools)
Visio (There IS no Visio clone, as parent said)
PhotoDraw (The GIMP, but it's completely different)
Project (There isn't anything like that)

Latitude: 39.284339
Longitude: -76.575952

So do you consider that Canton or Patterson Park?

This is a neat demonstration of technology, but do you worry about people knowing where you are?