Obsessively Detailed Map Of Springfield 371
An anonymous reader writes "With all these stories going around about governments' abilities to pinpoint our location via various means, it's quite surprising that one group of people have avoided them for so long. That dastardly family, The Simpsons, have been hidden in Springfield for far too long. Which brings us to the following obsessively detailed map of Springfield. From Jerry Lerma and Terry Hogan: "The mapping of Springfield began in the Spring of 2001 when we realized that no adequate map of Springfield existed either online or in print.""
Just tell me... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Even Time magazine has reported this (Score:3, Funny)
I'll go kill myself quitly in a corner now.
Wow... (Score:4, Funny)
Real Springfield (Score:2, Funny)
If they do, I'll be a Moe's.
Re:old! (Score:5, Funny)
Two Words... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Can you actually create one? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This ROCKS. (Score:3, Funny)
Get me two tickets to the state Springfield is in! (Score:5, Funny)
Cheers,
IT
oh look, Google! (Score:5, Funny)
new Slashdot game (Score:5, Funny)
Pick a day of the year. Perhaps your birthday. On that day of the year, you submit the aformentioned Simpson's site to Slashdot, and lets see how long the editor's memory lasts before they consider this 'news' and include it in Slashdot.
Re:I'm sorry. So what? (Score:5, Funny)
*wink*
1...2...3... GTA Springfield! Hit and what? (Score:4, Funny)
I would love to make this a GTA3 map... mod characters, there is a great GTA modding community, damn fine programmers too.
Well, back to the map (they haven't got routing or landmarks sorted out, but I guess they are working on it)
It is now on Yahoo! Maps :-) (Score:3, Funny)
Springfield, MA [mapquest.com]
As a service to our readers (Score:5, Funny)
True. Even the type that Slashdot attracts can't read everything posted here. As a community service, here's some more news, should a reader have missed it the first 10**6 times around (
- holy cr*p. A meteor's going to smash into the Earth
- Bill Gates and anyone who looks like him is evil, evil, evil
- in Soviet Russia, the tin foil hat wears you
- there's a floating point bug in the Pentium processor
- Google's issuing an IPO
- Perl is illegible line-noise
- Python is for weenies
Hope I didn't miss anything.
If this doesn't get me some karma. I don't know what will.
Re:new Slashdot game (Score:2, Funny)
Re: The most repeated story on Slashdot? (Score:3, Funny)
missing address (Score:5, Funny)
after reading your email, the editors commented (Score:2, Funny)
holy crap (Score:2, Funny)
Re:repeat (Score:5, Funny)
Dear Slashdot editors: It's really fucking simple (Score:5, Funny)
So, if I may be so bold as to suggest the following before posting slashdot stories from now on...
1. Find two or three of the most relevent keywords, you know, the kinds of words likely to repeat themselves in multiple submissions.
2. Go to google. You can find google at www.google.com. Here is a hyperlink to www.google.com [google.com]. Here is a definition of the word "hyperlink". [m-w.com]
3. Assuming you haven't forgotten the important keywords from step 1, proceed to step 4. Otherwise, return to step 1. If this is the third or fourth time reaching step 3, you might want to consider finding a paper and pencil. If you already had a paper and pencil, then you might want to consider using them to write down the keywords.
4. Now, with those words you've remembered (or written down) from step 1, go into the text box in the middle of that www.google.com webpage. Type in the following:
Slashdot Keyword1 Keyword2 Keyword3
5. If these [google.com] are your search results, hit back on your web browser, and then type in the following:
Slashdot Keyword1 Keyword2 Keyword3
ONLY THIS TIME, replace the three keywords with the words that you remembered, or copied down, from step 1.
6. Finally, have a look at some of the results to see if a slashdot story has already been posted on the submission you've just gotten. If there is a story, do not post the submitted story unless there is some information in the new submission that makes it somehow more relevent.
Good luck, God speed, and don't forget to vote Republican.
Re:make yourself a GPS (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Can you actually create one? (Score:2, Funny)
Great.... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Just tell me... (Score:5, Funny)
Why? Are you looking for Amanda Hugankiss?
From the article: (Score:5, Funny)
Now those are some geeks. Adequate for what??
Re:repeat (Score:1, Funny)
Wikipedia (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Even if it's not entirely accurate... (Score:2, Funny)
Stonecutters (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Even if it's not entirely accurate... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Dear Slashdot editors: It's really fucking simp (Score:4, Funny)
Or they could actually read Slashdot. Their choice.
Re:Just tell me...where's Moe's (Score:3, Funny)
Why not a whole telephone book ?!
Re:repeat (Score:3, Funny)
Patriot Act (Score:5, Funny)
but business hammocks? (Score:2, Funny)
Homer: I need to know where I can get some business hammocks.
Scorpio: Hammocks! What an idea, why didn't I think of that? Hammocks! Homer, there's 4 places, there's Hammock hut, that's on 3rd, Hammocks are us, that's on 3rd too, you've got Put Your Butt There, that's on 3rd, Swing Low Sweet Chariot, as a matter of fact, they're all on the same complex, the Hammock complex, down on third.
Homer: Oh, the hammock district!
Re:Can you actually create one? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Sorry... it's a dupe. Original is better. (Score:3, Funny)
It just means (Score:1, Funny)
Are you sure it's not... (Score:3, Funny)
Springfield, IL [mapquest.com]
Springfield, MO [mapquest.com]
Springfield, OH [mapquest.com]
Springfield, OR [mapquest.com]
Springfield, FL [mapquest.com]
Springfield, MI [mapquest.com]
Springfield, NJ [mapquest.com]
Springfield, PA [mapquest.com]
Springfield, TN [mapquest.com]
or how about Springfield, USA [mapquest.com]?
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Re:Are the same people... (Score:5, Funny)
there is a distinction!
You're such a geek for pointing that out.
Re:simpsons hit n run (Score:3, Funny)
As with a lot of TV shows and movies, when you're familiar with Los Angeles you realize how many unintentional Angelisms there are in The Simpsons. LA-based writers forget that a city with an ocean, a desert and mountains seems unusual to a lot of people. Admittedly, while the buildings in LA do move, they don't move as much as they do in Springfield...
Oblig Comic Book Guy Reference (Score:3, Funny)
Re:old! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:old! (Score:2, Funny)
I think it's because slashcode is perl and who the hell wants to modify perl code of this size and age?
Just a guess though.
Re:Even Time magazine has reported this (Score:4, Funny)
Re:repeat (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:But in episode... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Are the same people... (Score:2, Funny)
Maybe it will make
Grand Theft Auto (Score:3, Funny)
Re:But in episode... (Score:5, Funny)
A visitor to springfield is going with Homer to the bar.