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Obsessively Detailed Map Of Springfield
An anonymous reader writes "With all these stories going around about governments' abilities to pinpoint our location via various means, it's quite surprising that one group of people have avoided them for so long. That dastardly family, The Simpsons, have been hidden in Springfield for far too long. Which brings us to the following obsessively detailed map of Springfield. From Jerry Lerma and Terry Hogan: "The mapping of Springfield began in the Spring of 2001 when we realized that no adequate map of Springfield existed either online or in print.""
how to get to Moe's
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them
doh!
I'll go kill myself quitly in a corner now.
I'm not a troll, but I play one on Slashdot
this is even better than the last time it was posted and I looked at it and read the replies and posted my own reply.
So how long till someone builds a real life Springfield?
If they do, I'll be a Moe's.
reruns of Simpsons on TV, and now reruns of Slasdot articles. Who'd have thought!!!
"I just can't sit while people are saying nonsense in a meeting without saying it's nonsense" J Watson, Sci Am 288:(4)51
Hit & Run
If the location isn't static, why should the map be?? Just toss in a randomiser that returns the locations of certain things...
No! It's "Maaaaaaa-aaaaaa-aaaatlock"!
The map was originally going to indicate what state Springfield is in. Unfortunately, the margins were too small to contain it.
Cheers,
IT
Power corrupts. PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
Even Google has headquarters in Springfield! (look on the big map, next to the Springfield mall)
Here's a new slasdot game for everyone...
Pick a day of the year. Perhaps your birthday. On that day of the year, you submit the aformentioned Simpson's site to Slashdot, and lets see how long the editor's memory lasts before they consider this 'news' and include it in Slashdot.
The Simpsons suck! That dude who created Futurama is so much cooler!
*wink*
I wonder if they used hit and run as a source of this.
I would love to make this a GTA3 map... mod characters, there is a great GTA modding community, damn fine programmers too.
Well, back to the map (they haven't got routing or landmarks sorted out, but I guess they are working on it)
#hostfile 0.0.0.0 primidi.com 0.0.0.0 www.primidi.com 0.0.0.0 radio.weblogs.com
Courtesy of map quest ;-)
Springfield, MA
#hostfile 0.0.0.0 primidi.com 0.0.0.0 www.primidi.com 0.0.0.0 radio.weblogs.com
it'll always be new to someone
:) ):
True. Even the type that Slashdot attracts can't read everything posted here. As a community service, here's some more news, should a reader have missed it the first 10**6 times around (
- holy cr*p. A meteor's going to smash into the Earth
- Bill Gates and anyone who looks like him is evil, evil, evil
- in Soviet Russia, the tin foil hat wears you
- there's a floating point bug in the Pentium processor
- Google's issuing an IPO
- Perl is illegible line-noise
- Python is for weenies
Hope I didn't miss anything.
If this doesn't get me some karma. I don't know what will.
I see you've only got basic cable.
I don't see "123 Fake St." on the map.
D'oh!
you're right. Took me half hour to find it. I have too much time on my hands. But not nearly as much as the guys who made this!
Just uncheck the "duplicate stories" box on your preferences page. Worked for me...
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So, if I may be so bold as to suggest the following before posting slashdot stories from now on...
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Good luck, God speed, and don't forget to vote Republican.
I'm still trying to figure out what people mean by 'social skills' here.
You just locate their house in the superposition of the 3 locations. Then if their house is next to Moe's, the neighborhood and the powerplant instantly know that that the house isn't next to them, and vise versa. Quite simple really.
Now it's just a matter of time until there is a massivly multiplayer game based on this map.
we realized that no adequate map of Springfield existed either online or in print
Now those are some geeks. Adequate for what??
Isn't it amazing how our editors fail to check for previous articels, just like the US Patent Office fails to check for prior art?
This belongs under the definiton of "WAY WAY WAY too much free time on your hands" and "REALLY REALLY need to get a life".
Isn't being a duped article award enough?
Me email iz skyewalkerluke at microsoft's free email service.
I'd love to see the Stonecutters's secret tunnel shortcut, but then it wouldn't be secret anymore...
Okay, I'm good with that, but can we call it something official-sounding? Like the Slashdot Twice-Melted Server Award?
Well, the editors could always use a tf*idf weighted keyword vector relevance system on articles posted to Slashdot, which has worked excellently for me in the past.
Or they could actually read Slashdot. Their choice.
We Build Beautiful Websites
It's evident that we need a company register of Springfield.
Why not a whole telephone book ?!
Trying to initiate a mini-slashdot effect, eh,Troublemaker? That sound you hear is the sound of n00bies clicking their way to the accounts/preferences page...
WARNING: Smartphones have side effects--most of them undocumented.
Now we just have to hope that this map doesn't get put to terrorist uses. Maybe Homer should moonlight for DHS, next season.
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
Homer: I need to know where I can get some business hammocks.
Scorpio: Hammocks! What an idea, why didn't I think of that? Hammocks! Homer, there's 4 places, there's Hammock hut, that's on 3rd, Hammocks are us, that's on 3rd too, you've got Put Your Butt There, that's on 3rd, Swing Low Sweet Chariot, as a matter of fact, they're all on the same complex, the Hammock complex, down on third.
Homer: Oh, the hammock district!
A wizard did it.
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Yeah, but what the heck would the color scheme look like on that? Oh wait, it's green and white just like to front page.
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One of these?
Springfield, IL
Springfield, MO
Springfield, OH
Springfield, OR
Springfield, FL
Springfield, MI
Springfield, NJ
Springfield, PA
Springfield, TN
or how about Springfield, USA?
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The following sentence is true. The preceding sentence was false.
this place is slowly shifting from "news for nerds" to "news for dorks" ;)
there is a distinction!
You're such a geek for pointing that out.
As with a lot of TV shows and movies, when you're familiar with Los Angeles you realize how many unintentional Angelisms there are in The Simpsons. LA-based writers forget that a city with an ocean, a desert and mountains seems unusual to a lot of people. Admittedly, while the buildings in LA do move, they don't move as much as they do in Springfield...
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
Worst map ever!
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
Is that you CmdrTaco?
Why has taco not touched slashcode to make real improvements for almost 5 years?
I think it's because slashcode is perl and who the hell wants to modify perl code of this size and age?
Just a guess though.
Mod parent down, link to goatse like image. :-D
Analogies don't equal equalities, they are merely somewhat analogous.
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Hey! It's nice to know that the comic-book guy DOES exist.
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maybe that will make /. too.
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The first thing I thought when I looked at the overview map was that it looks *just* like I would imaging the pullout map of Grand Theft Auto: Springfield would look.
-"It seems like you're trying to exploit a security hole. Would you like help?"
A visitor to springfield is going with Homer to the bar.
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