I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
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Google Maps captures EVERYTHING going on within range of its camera as it scans at street level for its “street view” service — including a deer-vehicle accident at close range. The driver of the scanning van was unable to avoid a fawn; the scan captured enough detail of the event that one can even see the spots on the fawn’s coat.
Apparently the fawn was able to get up and run off after the incident; you don’t need to get all sniffly about this poor little Bambi.
The scan was taken in New York State, which is as heavily populated as Michigan with white-tailed deer. You can feel for the poor Google Maps driver if you’re one of the more than 65,000 Michigan drivers who hit a deer last year — or the even larger number of us who had a deer run out in front of the vehicle but didn’t hit it.
The images of the accident have proven so popular, though, that Google Maps has removed them from their system. This might be the first time that a deer-vehicle collision took out mapping services; chalk one up for Bambi.
Think twice about whatever it is you’re doing on the street, by the way. If Google Maps can capture the spots on a fawn not much bigger than a German Shepherd, it’ll catch you wearing those nasty sweat pants while you’re getting the mail. Just saying.
(h/t Gizmodo, The Daily What)
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