… as covered in the Grunion Gazette, now officially the only newspaper that cares about me, and conversely …

New LAT editor Russ Stanton (?!) addresses his newsroom:
I have grown tired and am now hopping mad over this seemingly endless “Groundhog Day” nightmare. And that is why I decided to take this job. We in the newsroom need to figure out how to break this self-defeating cycle before it does indeed result in our […]

At the nexus of history geeks, graphics geeks and politico-geeks there are things like these HistoryShots’ posters, “History of the [American] Political Parties I and II”. Fascinating. Whiggy. See them at historyshots.com.

In local news, Reporters Without Borders unveiled their Rose Parade billboard yesterday in Pasadena. The board, bearing the message shown here, is on a street near the route of the famous pageant.
This is the first year China has participated in The Tournament of Roses parade and its entry is designed to hype the 2008 […]

The Onion says, for a majority of likely voters, meaningless bullshit will be the most important factor in deciding who they will vote for in 2008. See the video report here. Reason Magazine online asks: Is the Onion our most intelligent newspaper?

It’s the very cool spimerch from spiseattle — the very cool and just-launched real newspaper site of friend Michelle and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. (Hey, it’s in my elsewhere. Is it in yours?) Get your spi-goods at cafe press, like me!

After this segment earlier today, the news anchor Marc Brown said “That was comforting. To see Lambchop.” In a way perhaps it was — for some of us, and you know who you are.

The Night Note has been getting a lot of searches for a current map of the Southern California Fires, so just to help get people where they want to go, I am recommending two often updated maps:
1) The Los Angeles Times: authoritative coverage, updated often. Click here.
2) ABC7.com: TV station’s map with pictures and links […]

And the Los Angeles Times gets a double plus good for their great use of often updated Google Maps to give us an answer to the crucial question of the moment: am I surrounded in a burning ring of fire? They are actually delivering updates via the map — click one of the fire markers […]

Bigtime software wiz Joe Gregorio notes the NYTimes spreading the wealth. Joe highlights why this is cool in technical terms, and I’m happy to see them do as the Lawrence dudes did. Let’s hope we see more of this sort of thing.