Curse of the Crying Boy and other oddities

Did you know that walking directions are now available on Google maps? And I love the Warning that comes along with it.

I noticed that the Google vehicles canvassed my city and now have the entire thing available for Street Viewing. Including my residence. Wish I could say I was outside and doing something noteworthy when the pic was snapped but ...

‘The Curse of the Crying Boy’ appeared out of the blue one morning in 1985. The Sun, at that time the most popular tabloid newspaper in the English-speaking world, published on page 13 of its 4 September edition a story headlined: “Blazing Curse of the Crying Boy”. It told how Ron and May Hall blamed a cheap painting of a toddler with tears rolling down his face for a fire which gutted their terraced council home in Rotherham, a mining town in South Yorkshire. The blaze broke out in a chip-pan in the kitchen of their home of 27 years and spread rapidly. But although the downstairs rooms of the house were badly damaged, the framed print of the Crying Boy escaped unscathed. It continued to hang there, surrounded by a scene of devastation.

Graphic of the Day: Romancing the highways - A Half Century History of US Transit Funding. Ahhh government funding based on myths.

Track Your Spending. Or Not. I'm more in the Not category.

7 Beauty Secrets That Cost Almost Nothing. Posted mostly because I'm a big fan of #1.

Some amazing sculptures created from old typewriters. Which reminded me of my probably already done idea to make small robots out of pieces of junk.

In WHAT? I'm Shocked I Tell You news: Coffee drinking, smoking common among AA members.