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November 21, 2007

You can fix a bad Google Maps marker; The 121 words; New Yorker cartoon issue

If you're looking for them, here is the big list of Thanksgiving recipes from newspaper food sections.

At the Google LatLong blog, Google Maps software engineer Seth LaForge writes, Think globally, mark locally:

The last time I threw a party, I used the My Maps feature of Google Maps to tell my friends exactly how to find my house. But if they'd just searched Maps on their own for my address and had gone to the marker location, they would have been partying in the middle of the street!
Now for your next party (or any other occasion), you can move the marker for your address to show the exact entrance of your house. Just search for your address, click "Edit," click "Move Marker," and drag the marker to your front door...

You might be worried about people monkeying with markers. Fear not, we've thought of that. Whenever you find a recently-moved address or business, you'll see a "Show original" link you can click to see where the marker was originally. If it's in the wrong place, just move it to the right one.

The satellite maps have me living a few houses away, but I'm not sure I mind it being a little off.

AP
White House press secretary Scott McClellan after finishing his last news briefing on May 5, 2006.

The 121 words: The most interesting book excerpt ever?

WHAT HAPPENED
Inside the Bush White House and What's Wrong with Washington

By SCOTT MCCLELLAN

The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak on his behalf and help restore credibility he lost amid the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. So I stood at the White house briefing room podium in front of the glare of the klieg lights for the better part of two weeks and publicly exonerated two of the senior-most aides in the White House: Karl Rove and Scooter Libby.
There was one problem. It was not true.

I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice President, the President's chief of staff, and the President himself.

Ha. Ha.The New Yorker's current issue is the cartoon issue. All on one page.

Painting update: No, the painter has not yet finished my kitchen. And yes, I'm cooking the big dinner there. At least the paint is odorless.

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