I just heard this story at work:
Over the weekend, a black clad figure along with a number of rooftop lookouts were arrested for going down Kirkwood and just cutting telecommunications wires. A bank security guard thought they looked sketchy and reported them.
posted by geoff on 9/21/2005 11:31:00 AM
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linkit: "I noticed that when I blog, that there are words that I type frequently that I would like to show up as links for my readers, but I'm always too lazy to type in the urls. So, I threw together some javascript to parse paragraphs in an html document and create hyperlinks for certain words that appear in the text."
posted by geoff on 9/20/2005 05:10:09 PM
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A friend pointed me to the googlemap drupal module.
I installed this module on terrorware.com and its pretty cool, but I've had some problems.
This module is cool, but currently limited - or rather limited by the location module.
The googlemap (gmap) module gets data about the event from longitude and lattitude tags in the rss feed for nodes with location information enabled.
I was only able to get this info added to the feed if I specified a zip for the location address. This makes sense as the documentation for the location module seems to suggest that it looks up longitude and lattitude based on postal code info.
When I did this, the gmap loaded my points, but showed up incorrectly on the map. I assume that this was due to incorrectly calculated longitude and lattitude on the part of the location module. I confirmed this by looking at the feed for the node at http://www.terrorware.com/?q=node/76. It showed:
The mapping feature of the location module just calls up google maps with a url generated from the addresss. In this case, it's http://maps.google.com/?q=325+S.+Walnut+Street%2C+Bloomington%2C+IN%2C+47401%2C+us. If you look at the source of the google page, you'll notice that they have their calculated longitude and lattitude info included:
Not the same!
Looking at the google source does, however, provide the means for hacking the location module to more accurately detect lng./lat. You could just have it grep the info from the page generated by google! The advantages of this would be greater accuracy and eliminate the need to enter a postcode.
posted by geoff on 9/20/2005 12:52:00 PM
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Kanye West's Torrent of Criticism, Live on NBC: "West: I hate the way they portray us in the media. You see a black family, it says, 'They're looting.' You see a white family, it says, 'They're looking for food.' And, you know, it's been five days [waiting for federal help] because most of the people are black. And even for me to complain about it, I would be a hypocrite because I've tried to turn away from the TV because it's too hard to watch. I've even been shopping before even giving a donation, so now I'm calling my business manager right now to see what is the biggest amount I can give, and just to imagine if I was down there, and those are my people down there. So anybody out there that wants to do anything that we can help -- with the way America is set up to help the poor, the black people, the less well-off, as slow as possible. I mean, the Red Cross is doing everything they can. We already realize a lot of people that could help are at war right now, fighting another way -- and they've given them permission to go down and shoot us!"
posted by geoff on 9/18/2005 12:14:50 PM
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