Author: DXO
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See Her Afterwards, Mr. President?
We’ve got a new category here at GoogOgraphy: Bush Applause. I’ll will faithfully comb White House news releases for the copious references to the bits of text uttered by the President that garner enough clapping to rate a notation of "(applause)" in an official transcript. For example, there are 26 separate instances of applause in…
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Dunkin Donuts Coffee Cream & Sugar
Dunkin Donuts coffee is the second best coffee ever. When I’m in the mood for coffee (not an espresso drink from Starbuck), I go to Dunkin Donuts. The best thing about them is their overuse of sugar. If you say "extra large coffee, cream & sugar" to a Dunkin Donuts employee, they get a catatonic…
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Valiant Effort
Peru: Mayor attempts suicide to escape sentencingAssociated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST Feb. 16, 2005 Faced with a guilty verdict for masterminding a double homicide, a mayor of a remote Andean village swallowed a flask of poison in court rather than face a 20-year sentence.
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Children Valentines
So yesterday was Valentine’s Day. I have two children, boys aged 4 and 6. They both go to a full-time daycare/ education facility and the older one goes to Kindergarten every day as well. Valentine’s Day for people like us mean that last week we got a list of every kid in each class. This…
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Killer on the Loose
A 199 website and Wireless Application Protocol app that collected public saftey news articles and notified users when there was a killer on the loose near them.