mapping blobs
A student in my graduate course blogging at Famous in My Own Head points to this news release from Lewiston, Maine:
A large, mysterious blob has taken over a major sewer line in the city of Lewiston, leaving public works crews stumped as to how to budge it.
The best part of the story, however, is the Google quickmaps iframe embed they have included, and the label "Location of Blob":
One Response to “mapping blobs”
Leave a Reply
Flickr Portfolio
from my Photography Portfolio
Links
Blogroll
- A Brief Message
- A Collage of Citations
- A List Apart
- Accessify
- Andy Budd
- Bathroom Graffiti Project
- Blogdelirium Redux
- Blogging Pedagogy
- BPR3
- Brad Bleck
- Carl Christensen
- Charlie Lowe
- Cheryl Ball
- Colorings
- Common Craft
- Confessions of a Grad Student
- Confessions of an Aca/Fan
- CSS Beauty
- Devine Writers
- Digital Enthography
- Digital Web Magazine
- Educause Blogs
- Electronic Literature Organization
- Eric Meyer
- Grand Text Auto
- Idea Warehouse
- Ima Shalom
- Jakob Neilson
- Jeffrey Zeldman
- Jeffrey Zeldman
- jill/txt
- Jim Brown
- Jonathan Harris
- Kairos News
- Lee Rocco
- Leukemia Letters
- Literally, A Web Log
- Lowercase L
- Maxdesign
- Mezzblue
- Paper Cuts
- Planet Photoshop
- PostSecret
- Read/WriteWeb
- Schenectady Synecdoche
- Scott Rettberg
- Simple Bits
- Spinuzzi
- Spoono
- State of the Profession
- Steven Krause
- The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks
- The Back of the Napkin
- The Blogora
- The Web of Language
- This Public Address
- Typographica
- Ungrading
- Viz
- Web Tools Collection
- Weblogs in Higher Education
- Why That Plate
- Work / Space
- Working Blue
Course and University
Course Applications
Design
- A List Apart
- Accessify
- Andy Budd
- Art of ALT
- CSS Beauty
- CSS List-o-Matic
- CSS Listamatic
- CSS Resource Guide
- CSS ZEn Garden
- CSSloaf
- Digital Web Magazine
- Eric Meyer
- HTML-Dog
- Jakob Neilson
- Jeffrey Zeldman
- Maxdesign
- Mezzblue
- Photoshop CS3 Plugins
- Photoshop Killer Tips
- Pixel Patterns
- Planet Photoshop
- Simple Bits
- Spoono
- Stylegala
- W3C Schools CSS Guide
- W3C Schools XHTML Guide
- Web Accessibility Guidelines
- Web Standards Project
Fall 08 Student Web Sites
Student Blogs---Archived
- A Post-Grad’s Journey Towards Domestication
- Against Our Will
- Ankle Biters Anonymous
- At One With The World
- Beyond Words
- Bland Musings
- Bliggidy Blog
- Bloggermeisters
- Bogus Bloggers
- Boomerspeak’s Weblog
- Brinkmannship
- BulletinBoard Bloggers
- Care 4 Poor
- Colorings
- East Meets West
- Electricblogman
- Exciting Writing
- Famous In My Own Head
- Gypsy Savage
- Just Add Water and Blog
- Kablam!
- Kate and the Fab Four
- Kiddie Korner
- Learning Leads
- Learning Literacy
- Little Readers
- Miscellaneous
- Musical Mayhem
- Non-Blondes + One
- Parents Welcome
- Parting of the Fog
- PJ Sabatini
- Really Great Blog
- Rookiez Blogz
- RUdetermined
- Sandblox
- Songs from the Backyard
- Teachateers’ Blog
- The ABC’s of Early Childhood Education
- The Video Game Press
- Unshrouded
- We Were Sick
- Writing Gone Wild
Student Blogs---Current
Sum 08 Student Web Sites
Usability Resources
Validation Tools
Web 2.0 Applications
January 30th, 2008 at 8:54 am
That’s hilarious. I think I can imagine what said blob is…someone should call Dirty Jobs, I’m sure it would make a great episode for Mike Rowe. Amazing…