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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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 [...]
By William M. Hartnett on Oct 13, 2008 in newspaper buildings | 0 Comments
This week’s newspaper building as seen in Virtual Earth/Live Search Maps is The News Tribune of Tacoma, Washington. Meaningless fact: The News Tribune’s building is the first we’ve featured here at Paper View Monday HQ that abuts a golf course. Exciting! Click the picture below to see for yourself.
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By William M. Hartnett on Oct 11, 2008 in cats, pics | 1 Comment
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By William M. Hartnett on Oct 11, 2008 in florida home, work | 0 Comments
The neighborhood of the week real estate feature is about historic El Cid, one of the oldest in the city of West Palm Beach.
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By William M. Hartnett on Oct 10, 2008 in daily links | 0 Comments
Prius Diary Extra: Toyota Considering a Separate Prius Brand - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com
"Toyota is considering setting up a separate brand for Prius, and may broaden the Prius lineup with bigger and smaller Prius models, the head of Toyota's American sales arm said today. … The separate Prius brand would be specific to the [...]
By William M. Hartnett on Oct 7, 2008 in CAR, featured, jobs | 3 Comments
A newspaper job opening in Florida. Weird. The Orlando Sentinel is looking for a computer-assisted reporting specialist:
“The ideal candidate will have at least five years of reporting experience, with an emphasis on government reporting; significant experience in reporting and writing data-driven investigative reports; and an advanced understanding of Microsoft Excel and Access. Proficiency with SQL, [...]
By William M. Hartnett on Oct 6, 2008 in newspaper buildings | 0 Comments
This week’s newspaper building as seen in Virtual Earth/Live Search Maps is the Tallahassee Democrat, to which I am officially awarding the prize for newspaper office that looks most like a bank branch. No, seriously, click the picture below to check it out for yourself, and rotate the view so that it faces east. Bank [...]
By William M. Hartnett on Oct 4, 2008 in cats, pics | 0 Comments
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By William M. Hartnett on Oct 4, 2008 in florida home, work | 0 Comments
The neighborhood of the week real estate feature is about Lake Catherine in Palm Beach Gardens.
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