Wiener Dog

http://fukung.net/v/17647/8056f425d0d61c1bf26c69b735a46e47.gif

Net Worth

http://amix.dk/blog/viewEntry/19424

Hat Fail

http://www.totalprosports.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/hat-fail.jpg

Things I Made

http://daleswanson.org/things.htm

So I've been messing around with javascript and I've made a couple random toys/tools. I made a new section on my site for them. They include:

I'm Feeling Lucky Link Generator - Makes links for I'm Feeling Lucky searches.

Highpoint Map - Map of state highpoints.

Relativistic Acceleration - Calculate speed and distance from acceleration.

Wawa Locations - Map of Wawas.

Screen Size Calculator - Find height and width of a screen from diagonal size.

Prankster Gets Verizon's CEO Private Address, Visits Him to Discuss Privacy

http://gizmodo.com/5320173/prankster-gets-verizons-ceo-private-address-visits-him-to-discuss-privacy?skyline=true&s=x

the "blog" of "unnecessary" quotation marks

http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/

I absolutely love this site.

Democrats irked by Obama signing statement

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jTUXZ57-4A_UnsbDtQDPlUwZlbIQD99J2DQG1

President Barack Obama has irked close allies in Congress by declaring he has the right to ignore legislation on constitutional grounds after having criticized George W. Bush for doing the same.

A Gliese 581 Primer

http://www.davesbrain.ca/science/gliese/index.html

Highpoints Map

http://daleswanson.org/things/hpmap.htm

I used my new Google Map powers to make a map of the highpoints. I'd like to make the markers show the rank and class, but my lack of javascript knowledge is making it difficult.

Wawa Elevations

Two peices of news. First I put all my Wawa locations into a Google Map which is here.

I was going over the data and noticed I also didn't have the Franklin Ave Wawa, which the below link didn't have. I went back to the Wawa site and they didn't list it. This is puzzling since that store is quite old, and I don't think closing. I now assume my missing stores are the ones missing from Wawa's own site. (I later found it southbound on 73).

Secondly, by popular demand I found the elevations for the Wawas. I really wanted to get elevations from the start but couldn't find any way to elevations from longitude and latitude. I spent a few hours and downloaded literally a GB of data from the NGS. Finally though I discovered a site that gave the elevation data in a small simple file from the lat and long in the URL.

http://www.earthtools.org/webservices.htm

With that it was a simple matter to make a batch file with 539 commands to have lynx dump the page to a single file. Then I added it to the spreadsheet and here are the highest in each state:

State	Store	Lat	Long	Address	City	Zip	Meters	Feet
PA	270	41.0704920	-75.7041700	RT 940 and Turnpike	Kidder Township	18661	466	1528.9
MD	590	39.5613408	-76.9663412	805 Leidy Road	Westminster	21157	269	882.5
DE	826	39.8287879	-75.5424637	3448 Naamans Road	Wilmington	19803	123	403.5
NJ	985	40.6964516	-75.1759533	411 Roseberry Street	Phillipsburg	08865	106	347.8
VA	659	37.5053630	-77.6009650	11021 Midlothian Turnpike	Richmond	23235	105	344.5

Let the Wawa highpointing begin!