Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter has switched to blog format. They seem to have done something strange with the TypePad page navigation, but it's still an incredible source of technology news for genealogists and amateur historians. Plus, how can you pass up a post titled "Cows & Sheep: the Enemy"?
The Daily WTF has become a daily read for me. It's a collection of really bad technology ideas, which ranges from code snippets to management blunders. I'm not sure whether my favorite is the error popup titled "NO! -- Bad User!" or the Kafkaesque comments to an XSLT processor.
I spent most of yesterday evening reading HoustonFreeways.com and its sister site TexasFreeway.com. Both are collections of photo essays by highway enthusiasts in search of the eccentric and the historical. Worth checking out are the movies of a swing bridge working and the archive photos of traffic measurement in Houston.
To my delight, several pages describe State Highway 87 between Sabine Pass and High Island. This was the most direct route between my hometown and the beach, but with erosion working at 8-10 feet per year, it was always in peril of washing away. I remember looking out of the car at the speed limit signs sitcking up out of the waves, and thinking about the previous three roads the Gulf had taken. Once we were overtaken by a cattle drive, as cowboys on horseback used SH 87 to transfer their herd from one McFaddin pasture to another. As I recall, my father drove very slowly as the animals flowed around our Toyota Starlet.
Posted by Ben Brumfield at August 22, 2006 05:26 AM