Archive for October 15th, 2008

That right there is a map labeling fail »

By William M. Hartnett on Oct 15, 2008 in oddities | 5 Comments

A totally unaltered screengrab from Microsoft’s Live Search Maps. Seriously, click the picture to see for yourself. Check out Ryan Pitts’ corrected version, too.

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links for 2008-10-15 »

By William M. Hartnett on Oct 15, 2008 in daily links | 0 Comments

Announcing the New York Times Campaign Finance API - Open
"The initial version of the Campaign Finance API offers overall figures for presidential candidates, as well as state-by-state and ZIP code totals for specific candidates. In addition, the API supports a contributor name search using any of the following parameters: first name, last name and ZIP [...]