“Swarm of rampaging geographers heads for the Sault”

I like to think that the person who wrote the above headline for Sootoday.com had the best of intentions. So does the person at who put the title “No Need for Directions” on the same text.

Alas, the press release that follows, which touts that the Sault Ste. Marie Innovation Centre (SSMIC) will host the 2006 ESRI Canada Regional User Conference for Northern Ontario next May, fails to expand the acronym GIS, nor explain what exactly it is. I believe the release is from the Sault Ste. Marie Innovation Centre. Hey, ESRI Canada, help these folks out!

What is the “continental U.S.” exactly?

You can ask the folks at ESPN, as they just learned. The cable network blacked out Major League Baseball playoff telecasts earlier this month in the U.S. Virgin Islands fearing that the contract with Major League Baseball prohibited broadcasts outside the “continental U.S.” ESPN figured it out: Alaska and Hawaii are not part of the continental U.S., but the U.S. Virgin Islands are. I confess I didn’t know that!