FSP 1.1

Kerry 2004, paid for by Howard Dean

	Purposeful web sites are making a mistake by inserting googleads.
	While acceptable for your web site to agree to have a sponsor, and for you to use links, text, images, and all the other modern conveniences to promote your sponsor, the googleads are bound to diminish your site.
	If you must add dross links to 'related' sites, just choose and add your own links or join a webring. Or if it's the coin you seek, get a sponsor that matches your taste.
	Allowing Google (or Overture/Yahoo or whoever) to randomly stuff your pages based on word association is doomed to lead to rivals' text and links splattered about your page.
And some readers just plain dislike being force-fed adverts, arguing that 'contextual advertising' is spam.

Click to see screenshot of context.

Keep score of the delegate count, and Slate's campaign field guide.
Slate on the pragmatism of electing electable candidates.

Silly CostCo maps

CostCo is a warehouse style big box retailer.

The goal is to find a CostCo near you (assume you are in zip code 63011,
or Clarkson Valley, MO).

Search by town and state, or by zip code.
This finds a reasonable list of CostCos.

The results show the CostCo on a map with detailed context,
and the results list each address. All good so far.

Selecting the South Saint Louis link brings a page exclusively about
that particular location.

Note that
1. The location's street (Rusty Road) in not shown on map

2. An exit route from freewys is not shown.
E.g., From I-270, should I exit from I-270, or change to I-55 then exit ?

3. The street (Rusty Road) is different from street listed on previous search
results page (South Lindberg (Lindbergh?).

Apple is much better:

Also good is the map from Pro-Retail.

Parking lots without sidewalks

Parking lots should be surrounded by a perimeter sidewalk.
Or at least the end spaces should have a paved path beside them.

After these trees grow it will not be possible to exit a car.
And if there weren't trees, there would be mud to walk through.

Near Bay Street, Emeryville, CA.

The clear space beyond the parking stall should be at least half the
width of the space. (With both side doors open, the MINI is wider
than it is long.)

Who's that girl ?

When publishing a review of work, always make clear who is

• the reviewer
  
• the author or producer of the reviewed work
  
• the topic of the reviewed work

Of who is this a picture ? a) Michiko Kakutani b) Miranda Carter c) Anhony Blunt

These rules apply to posters and pictures, too.
Matching the pictures of movie stars to the billed names on posters
is often a quite a puzzle.

ANTHONY BLUNT -- The Gay Savant and Traitor With Hardly Enough Closets, by Miranda Carter.

Review by MICHIKO KAKUTANI, NYT, 2002 January 04.