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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.""
Before we get a swag of comments mentioning errors / omissions in the map - I read the following from the article:
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"Due to the many inconsistencies among episodes, the map will never be completely accurate. Although we'd like our map to be as accurate as a map to any imaginary place can be, our main intent is to preserve the comic spirit of Springfield, document its unique identity, and to have some fun at the same time."
IMO they did a great job! (although wasn't the Simpson's house in eyeshot of
Doing a map of new new york from futurama?
They beat Slashdot by about three months. That is, for the first time around...
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
...the writers themselves have said on the DVD commentaries that although in the first few seasons a concious effort was made to keep geography accurate, after that they found it easier (and funnier) just to mess about with it, meaning the Simpsons' house is in many places (next to moes, next to the power plant, etc.).
Seriously, I love it. Yes, I understand that you can never have an accurate map of Springfield (there are contradictions across episodes) but this is about as good as you can get. BTW, wasn't the Michael Jackson Expressway (formerly the Dali Lama expressway) renamed to the Matlock Expressway ?
Can we give these guys some sort of award? Slashdot Medal of Honor or something? That's an impressive amount of nerdness, right there.
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.
there's no Flanders' house! What gives?
Even though you have a troll rating at the moment I write this I'd like to answer this question because I think it isn't trolling what you're doing... just a bit of missing the point ;).
The Simpsons are funny if you are the kind of person to understand and like the jokes. You don't have to like them. But others do for the humor, for the political and social critics na dfor many more reasons. Sure, it's fictional. But what is not ficitonal in one or another way today? The Simpsons bring fans together and make them DO something together.
So you can define this work as a way to waste your time or you can see it as a way to honor a piece of work that has brought and continues to bring people together.
That is the reason why I think this project is plain cool.
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.
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.
123 fake street is on the waterfront between Bart's Demolished Factory and Fake Vomit Inc, off Industrial Way.
Just uncheck the "duplicate stories" box on your preferences page. Worked for me...
INsigNIFICANT
A google search of Slashdot springfield map brings up the previous story as the first hit.
So, if I may be so bold as to suggest the following before posting slashdot stories from now on...
1. Find two or three of the most relevent keywords, you know, the kinds of words likely to repeat themselves in multiple submissions.
2. Go to google. You can find google at www.google.com. Here is a hyperlink to www.google.com. Here is a definition of the word "hyperlink".
3. Assuming you haven't forgotten the important keywords from step 1, proceed to step 4. Otherwise, return to step 1. If this is the third or fourth time reaching step 3, you might want to consider finding a paper and pencil. If you already had a paper and pencil, then you might want to consider using them to write down the keywords.
4. Now, with those words you've remembered (or written down) from step 1, go into the text box in the middle of that www.google.com webpage. Type in the following:
Slashdot Keyword1 Keyword2 Keyword3
5. If these are your search results, hit back on your web browser, and then type in the following:
Slashdot Keyword1 Keyword2 Keyword3
ONLY THIS TIME, replace the three keywords with the words that you remembered, or copied down, from step 1.
6. Finally, have a look at some of the results to see if a slashdot story has already been posted on the submission you've just gotten. If there is a story, do not post the submitted story unless there is some information in the new submission that makes it somehow more relevent.
Good luck, God speed, and don't forget to vote Republican.
No, they don't. They tell you where the actors playing "The Simpsons" live, but not where the show takes place. Let's see what SNPP has to say about it:
In the first airing of [BABF19], "Behind The Laughter", the narrator gave Springfield's location as Northern Kentucky. For the second and later airings, this changed to Southern Missouri. Neither of these are admissible locations for Springfield, for the many reasons listed later in this document.
What's the explanation? This episode is not canon. It portrays the show not as a cartoon created by Matt Groening, but as a live-action sitcom originally written by Homer and starring his own family. None of what happens is part of the main Simpsons continuity... just like any Halloween Special.
Life is just nature's way of keeping meat fresh.
Why? Are you looking for Amanda Hugankiss?
Slashdot gets worse every day... Pipedot: News for nerds, without the corporate slant
we realized that no adequate map of Springfield existed either online or in print
Now those are some geeks. Adequate for what??
This belongs under the definiton of "WAY WAY WAY too much free time on your hands" and "REALLY REALLY need to get a life".
Am I the only one that thinks that now that a full map of Springfield is out there its only a matter of time before someone capitalizes and makes a Simpsons MMORPG. All of Springfield could be rendered 100% accurately now. Woo-wee!
which always makes me wonder.
Why has taco not touched slashcode to make real improvements for almost 5 years?
a simple modification to make the editor's side of the system to require a pull up query of all stories based on keywords in the headline would kill 90% of the dupes.
I know that slashdot is and never has claimed to be a journalism site, but the amount of dupes is getting way out of hand.
how about no ONE editor can publish a story but requires a second editor to approve the first approval?
Anyone remember the last time we posted this link? :P
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/27/121423 1