Online newspapers that don't tell you where the news happened.  Like you're 
supposed to guess whether the story about the jewish wedding being disrupted 
on the page of "newsday.com" is in Ohio or Gaza. Right up there with "call 
9-5 Mon-Fri" without any mention of what timezone you're in, like everyone 
can guess based on the name of your company what country you're in, let 
alone what city.
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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Why is there a chainsaw in DOOM?
   There aren't any trees on Mars.

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Darren New wrote:
> Online newspapers that don't tell you where the news happened.  Like 
> you're supposed to guess whether the story about the jewish wedding 
> being disrupted on the page of "newsday.com" is in Ohio or Gaza.

Uh, yeah.

When I first got a mobile phone, it had some "feature" whereby every now 
and them I'd get a text message saying "a man has been stabbed in 
Hatfield" or "Granoad as just scored a goal". And I'd be like "WTF? Why 
would I care about that?"

Eventually I discovered a way to turn off these pointless messages.

> Right 
> up there with "call 9-5 Mon-Fri" without any mention of what timezone 
> you're in, like everyone can guess based on the name of your company 
> what country you're in, let alone what city.

Ah, another favourit.

But then, that's the power of the Internet, isn't it? I noticed a few 
people talking about newegg.com, so I went to investigate. Apparently it 
only works in America. Because that's where everybody lives, isn't it?

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"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message
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> Online newspapers that don't tell you where the news happened.  Like
you're
> supposed to guess whether the story about the jewish wedding being
disrupted
> on the page of "newsday.com" is in Ohio or Gaza.

Let me be the devil's advocate: How is it *their* fault that you are
(randomly?) reading newspapers without knowing their area of coverage?

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somebody wrote:
> Let me be the devil's advocate: How is it *their* fault that you are
> (randomly?) reading newspapers without knowing their area of coverage?

It's this thing called a "hyperlink", you see. It lets you get to a news 
story that someone else tells you about without having to find it yourself.

And there's this company called google, see, and another called reddit, and 
one called digg, and what they do, see, is they provide links to interesting 
stuff...

Maybe one day newspapers will do a story on such companies.

I'd have forgiven them if it was even obvious from their home page what 
country they were in, ya know? Or if the name was, say, "The New York 
Times."  And, as I said, it's just an annoyance.  But why publish on the 
internet if you're so parochial that you think everyone already knows who 
you are?

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Why is there a chainsaw in DOOM?
   There aren't any trees on Mars.

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You know what gets me?

Facebook profiles. You click on, say, "Debbie James" and get a picture 
of 6 girls hugging. Uh... WTF?

(Still, click on "Chris Parson" and get a picture of a foxglove. Wuh??)

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On 12-Jan-09 4:16, Darren New wrote:
> Online newspapers that don't tell you where the news happened.  Like 
> you're supposed to guess whether the story about the jewish wedding 
> being disrupted on the page of "newsday.com" is in Ohio or Gaza. Right 
> up there with "call 9-5 Mon-Fri" without any mention of what timezone 
> you're in, like everyone can guess based on the name of your company 
> what country you're in, let alone what city.
Or what year. Last year we had an end of year party at december 18th 
somewhere in the city. I didn't know the place so I googled. Apart from 
the address I found an article that said that they had to close december 
19th i.e. the day after our party, because of earlier riots. It took me 
quite some time to find another source that did tell me what year that 
was going to happen, 2005 and apparently it hadn't happened.

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