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.

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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

Garage Sale

Still waiting for my laptop to get repaired, which explains my slow blogging. I’ve been stupidly busy at work, going a bit crazy and getting really frustrated with my workload and my slow laptop. So what did we decide to do on top of all this? We’re having a garage sale.

It’s a multi-family garage sale. My bro/sis-in-law have a ton of stuff to get rid of, as do we, so it’s all getting sold. Toys, computer desk, changing table, book shelf, clothes, large fish tank setup, stereo, jungle gym, hunting bow, sandbox, jungle gym, and much more! It’ll be going on tomorrow (Friday) and Saturday, 9AM to whenever we feel like it (earlybirds have to not only help setup but have to pay triple).

Where do I live? Using the contact form to the right or comment below and I’ll reply with my address (don’t really want it posted here, though I’m pretty easy to find). Or just look in the paper for the Watson Dr. garage sale.

June 7, 2007

My Commute To Work Is About 396,000 Human Tongues

My approximately 25-mile (one-way) commute to work equals about 396,000 tongues, 4888 Weinermobiles, 6729 small intestines, or well over a million cockroaches. Thanks Neil for the link.

June 6, 2007

One Stop Paranoia

If you’re a conspiracy theorist or want to live in fear all the time, this Google Maps-powered incident map is for you. Thanks Barn for the link.

June 6, 2007

Movable Type Goes Open Source

This is a good thing and will only strengthen what is already great software.

June 6, 2007