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[30 Jan 2009 | Comments Off | 337 views]
Google Maps Car Hits a Deer, Records Entire Ordeal on Google Maps

via Gizmodo:

Here’s a sad one: the Google Maps car took out a baby deer, and it recorded the entire process for all Google Maps users to see. For shame, Google Maps car!
As you follow the street view scene down Five Points Road in Rush, NY, you can see the deer run out in front of the car, get hit and then see it on the side of the road before the car pulls over. And that’s the end of the Street View data for Five Points Road.

My question is, they …

Headline, Media, Terrorism, Twitter, flickr »

[27 Nov 2008 | Comments Off | 333 views]
Mumbai attacks reported live on twitter, flickr

More and more traditional media outlets/MSM struggle to cover current events, where social media and non-traditional coverage (a.k.a. blogs) flourish. This has to be taken with a grain of salt, however, as traditional media outlets typically have trained staff who check and verify facts as well as being upheld to a “standard”, whereas your social media and blog sites are not encumbered with such restrictions. Of course, even the most “respected” MSM outlets still publish fictitious, unverified, or poorly verified stories. Just look at the incidents with Jayson Blair and the New York Times or The CBS / Dan Rather George Bush Killian Documents Controversy.

Funny, Headline, YouTube »

[19 Nov 2008 | Comments Off | 205 views]
lolz!!11!!!! cat on a roomba!!!111!!!

Cat rides a roomba around… I could never get Tiger to do this… Although, Max did try to ride the Roomba the other day, though not on purpose…