Month: June 2007

Welcome Oregonian Readers

I’m getting more traffic today than usual, and according to my server logs, it’s from people searching for this, based on this Oregonian article (which was on the front page of today’s Sunday edition) about the Portland Barbie dolls. Anybody who knows anything about Central Oregon might be interested in this more local variant. But stick around, visit my advertisers, and feel free to sign up to my nightly updates.

Secondly, welcome Source Weekly readers. And despite their use of quotation marks around my name because they think I’m using a pseudonym, my name is indeed Jake.

June 17, 2007

It’s A Common Misspelling, Sadly

Which is why I’ve registered udderlyboring.com and pointed it here. I thought about putting up some ridiculous picture of a cow with bit of text about how to spell properly. Then I realized I really cant spel wurth a dam aynway, so why bother?

June 17, 2007

Doesn’t Seattle’s Government Have Other Things To Worry About?

Apparently not.

SEATTLE – At Seattle City Hall there are rules.

No weapons, no animals, no loitering, no alcohol, no lying down, no smoking, no music, no fighting, no trespassing.

Could the next thing be no microwave popcorn?

[…]

The City Facilities Department has just issued a memo to all City employees.

SUBJECT: Burnt microwave popcorn.

The Justice Center has been evacuated eight times in three years, forcing the evacuation of more than 400 people. If the problem continues, it will result in a ban of all microwave popcorn.

The article is actually quite a hilarious and some real city hall stupidity.

June 14, 2007

The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office Has Lost An Officer

It wasn’t human, however.

Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office K-9 Koda has died in an unfortunate sequence of events, the agency reported Wednesday.

The 2-year-old dog, a Belgian Malinois, died earlier this week while Koda and his handler were off-duty, visiting out of the area, said sheriff’s Capt. Tim Edwards, who announced the news “with great sadness” in a press release.

[…]

While his handler was away, Koda forced his way out of the kennel and consumed a large amount of dog food being stored in the car, Edwards said.

Koda then proceeded to eat the seats of the car, ingesting foam from the car seats, Edwards said.

June 14, 2007

Yet Another Parent Of The Year Nominee

We’re just full of folks who should be neutered today — like these morons.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Investigators found a crying 6-year-old boy tied up in a sweltering car at a suburban restaurant after employees reported seeing a man take the child outside and return without him to finish eating.

Police believe the boy, whose name was not released, was tied up for about 30 minutes while the outside temperature was in the 80s Saturday in Ringgold, Ga., about 13 miles southeast of Chattanooga, Sgt. John Gass said Tuesday.

“He was sitting up in between the two front seats and he was crying,” Gass said. “He had a rope tied to one of his ankles. The child was just sweating, just soaking.”

June 13, 2007

Another Mother Of The Year Nominee

Another parent who should’ve never have procreated.

PORT ST. LUCIE — A 10-year-old boy reportedly weighing only 35 pounds was taken for medical treatment after being found knocking on doors Saturday evening asking for food.

[…]

That officer said he found no food in the refrigerator, freezer or pantry of the home. The home was reportedly clean, but had little furniture.

Sadly, this woman has nine kids and is pregnant with her tenth.

Link via Fark.

June 13, 2007

Sounds Like A Fun Place

Only about 600 people live in the small village of Brooklyn, just across the river from St. Louis. But more than three-quarters of the city’s revenue is derived from the X-rated establishments that call the town home: four strip clubs, a massage parlor and an adult bookstore. Full story.

June 13, 2007

I’m Sure You’ve Already Heard About This, But…

I’m sure you’ve all heard all about Google Maps new zoom feature that brings thing down to street level. And people are already finding all sorts of fun stuff with it. Boing Boing, as usual, is all over it, with great debate, odd images, one of the vehicles behind it, and a new word: screwgled. They also ask if people’s opinion would be different if this were a government group doing this? And there’s one EFF attorney who always seems to be spotted on these things.

The Google Operating System also dives into the privacy issues surrounding this.

In some other random Google news from the Google Operating System blog (can you tell I’m trying to clear links out here?), you can use Google Maps to find directions that avoid Interstate highways. You can also restrict Google Image searches to strict categories like faces.

And, lastly, if you ever plan on going to Disney World, have this Google Map bookmarked on your laptop.

June 12, 2007

The Bulletin Goes High Tech

Congrats to the Bulletin for getting all excited and embracing a common Web technology that’s been around for over a decade. Here’s an e-mail they sent around this evening to their E-edition subscribers. (The E-Edition subscribers are the folks who pay for their online content and no, I’m not one of them — I received this from a few different people).

—–Original Message—–

From: Webmaster [mailto:[email protected]]

To: XXXX

Subject: Try our new sign-in system

Dear XXXX,

You asked for it, and we listened.

Many of you have requested an easier way to sign in to the E-Edition, so our site would “remember” you.

Beginning Wednesday, we’ll have a new, simpler sign in. Just enter your e-mail address and password — one time — and you’ll never have to sign in again unless you delete your computer’s “cookies,” or you sign in from a different computer. Our new system uses a cookie, a harmless marker transmitted to your computer, to recognize you as a member automatically every time you return to the site. To take advantage of this new feature, be sure you have enabled cookies in your web browser.

Please let us know what other improvements you’d like to see. Just reply to this e-mail with your ideas.

Thanks for being an E-Edition member,

Jan Even, New Media Director

In other local media news, KFXO is now officially owned by KTVZ’s parent company, and you can read some more discussion at the always fun Oregon Media Insiders.

June 11, 2007

Random Link Dump

These are mostly just for my future reference and/or they don’t need a full blog entry. If there’s something that interests you here, enjoy, but I’ve got to get these out of my “to blog” folder so we can get on with the fun stuff:

That’s all for now. Once I get all caught up, I’ll post more entertaining entries.

June 11, 2007