:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::
"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 10.29.2003 ::
:: Reports from the Wired road trip ::
It'll Thrill Ya, It'll Kill Ya
The Old Sow demands respect as she comes roiling to the surface of the Atlantic off the Maine coast. She's the largest tidal whirlpool on earth and you trifle with her at your own peril. Michelle Delio reports from Eastport, Maine.
In the Beginning There Was a Sign
By Michelle Delio
FORT KENT, Maine -- Where is that confounded sign?
You'd think that the sign that marks the northernmost point of historic U.S. Route 1 would have pride of place in Fort Kent, Maine, a small frontier town on the Canadian border with precious few tourist attractions besides the sign.
But instead of being housed in some tasteful little roadside shrine, the weatherworn wooden sign is tucked into the corner of the Fort Kent Masonic Lodge's parking lot, partially hidden by a ratty tree.
The mileage marked on the sign is wrong too; it claims that it's 2,209 miles to Key West, Florida -- it's actually 2,425 miles.
"It's close enough," said Elmer Daigle, of Fort Kent's Daigle's Bed and Breakfast. "What's a few hundred miles more or less when you're going that far anyway?"
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