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Random picture of my cat, Vol. 141

Paper View Monday, Special Free Lunch Eating Freeloader Edition: The Pueblo Chieftain

The bad news, Paper View Monday fans, is that the free ride is over. Buffeted by the same buffety winds that have buffeted so many enterprises across the buffeted media landscape, Paper View Monday will be a strictly fee-based feature from this week forward.

The good news is that we have devised a micropayment system that is so elegant you won’t even mind paying for something of little obvious value that you have for several years now enjoyed for free. So before you you view this week’s newspaper building as seen in Bing Maps, which happens to be The Pueblo Chieftain of Pueblo, Colorado, please send me one Martin Van Buren dollar coin using the method described below.

Connect with me via Google Wave, where you must plead a compelling case as to why I should approve your request to follow me on Twitter. Submit Twitter follow request. If the case you have presented via Google Wave is deemed sufficient and your request is approved, send me a single direct message outlining the reasons why we should become Facebook friends. If your Facebook friend request is approved, send a message via Facebook in which you guess my favorite instant-messaging service, client and username. If you correctly name two out of the three, or can answer any single question and argue an even moderately compelling case for why the stupendously boring film The Dark Knight actually deserved more than, say, 90 of its 152 unbelievably idiotic minutes of running time, you will be allowed to communicate with me via chat. Initiate a chat session to receive a Hotmail address to which you must email a request for my fax number. When you are in possession of the fax number, fax a request for my mobile phone number. Call my mobile phone and leave me a voicemail with your physical mailing address. I will mail you a letter containing my mailing address, to which you must then mail one Martin Van Buren dollar coin for each occasion on which you view this and all subsequent Paper View Monday installments.

Easy.

And in Google Maps Street View:

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Random picture of my cat, Vol. 140: Special moving-picture edition!

How special is this moving-picture edition of RPOMC if it happens to be the second moving-picture edition I’ve posted in as many weeks? Very special, that’s how special. Now shut up and enjoy this freakin’ clip of the one and only Pokeweed, already.

Paper View Monday: Arizona Daily Sun of Flagstaff, Arizona

The 48th Annual New England Month and 5K Fun Run has been extended for just one more week here at Paper View Monday headquarters, and this week’s newspaper building as seen in Bing Maps is the Arizona Daily Sun of Flagstaff, Arizona. No, strictly speaking, Arizona is not part of New England. On the other hand, suck it. Mash your mouse on the picture below to map-fiddle.

And in Google Maps Street View:

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Random picture of my cat, Vol. 139: Special moving-picture edition!

Elite Pokeweed fans, you are not going to believe your luck. Before you now, for only the third time in the history of the universe, is the third-ever second annual moving-picture edition of RPOMC. For the third time. Only. Here’s the first edition, and the second.

links for 2009-10-15

• Santa Clara County pays $500,000 over GIS data dispute – San Jose Mercury News
  Idiot bureaucrats who attempt to prevent the dissemination of basic, publicly funded government data by charging astronomical fees should be forced to pay the inevitable judgement against them out of their own pocket. "Santa Clara County's move to charge astronomical fees for public access to its electronic maps has backfired in a $500,000 legal settlement. Government watchdogs say it is the largest payment of its kind in a California records disclosure dispute. The settlement paid this week to cover the San Rafael-based First Amendment Coalition's legal bills ends a three-year court odyssey. In June 2006, the nonprofit watchdog group sued the county for refusing to provide its geographic information systems "basemap" following a California Public Records Act request."
  (tags: public-records gis data)

Paper View Monday: The Virginian-Pilot

Yes, I will admit that The 48th Annual New England Month and 5K Fun Run officially ended two weeks ago here at Paper View Monday headquarters. That said, due to a complete absence of demand, we’re bringing it back for one week only. This week’s newspaper building as seen in Bing Maps is The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk, Virginia. No, strictly speaking, Virginia is not part of New England. On the other hand, suck it. Mash your mouse on the picture below to map-fiddle.

And in Google Maps Street View:

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Random picture of my cat, Vol. 138

Paper View Monday: The Berkshire Eagle of Pittsfield, Massachusetts

The 48th Annual New England Month and 5K Fun Run officially ended last week here at Paper View Monday headquarters. With that out of the way, this week’s newspaper building as seen in Bing Maps is The Berkshire Eagle of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Yes, strictly speaking, Pittsfield is part of New England. On the other hand, suck it, because The 48th Annual New England Month and 5K Fun Run is over. Mash your mouse on the picture below to map-fiddle.

Florida Home 136: 2009-10-03, Mariners Cove, near Palm Beach Gardens

The neighborhood of the week real estate feature is about Mariners Cove near Palm Beach Gardens: “With gorgeous views along the Intracoastal Waterway, lush settings and private docks, this 40-acres development just south of Jupiter is a ‘boater’s paradise,’ homeowners say.”

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