Cole's Notes - The Sunday Journalist

I blogged earlier this week about the demise of the last Western Union Telegram . And it's interesting that a web site is keeping the telegram (of sorts) alive. Send a Retrogram today!

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From the US on the Speed of the Internet- Canada isn't doing much better. Where's the 45MB/Sec I already paid for? broadbandscandals

Dvorak Uncensored Interesting video on John Dvorak's Blog regarding a little target practise in Oklahoma. Just the sort of thing to terrify the folks in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal.

I was zipping around over at Slate when I came across an interesting story Do Diplomats Still Use Telegrams? Don't they have e-mail like the rest of us? By Brendan I. Koerner Updated Thursday, Nov. 11, 2004, at 10:41 AM ET The New York Times reports that German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder sent President Bush a congratulatory telegram on Wednesday, urging cooperation on issues ranging from security to climate change. Do politicians and diplomats really still send telegrams?... If you'd like to follow Chancellor Schröder's lead and send your own congratulatory telegram to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., you can attempt to do so using Western Union's online telegram service . But it'll cost you $14.99, and there's no guarantee the deliveryman will pass muster at the White House gates. Well, the article said that the US State Department would be phasing out cables as of the end of 2006. But clicking on the link to Western Union - and an interesting page comes up from the ...

The proprietors of the Erotic City strip club in Boise, Idaho, attempt to circumvent a local law banning nudity except for performances of "serious artistic merit" by distributing sketch pads and pencils to customers for twice-weekly G-string-free "art" nights. Local police raid the club, issuing misdemeanor citations. Now check out this optical illusion Yeah right - you did look at the background, eh? - if you look carefully - you can probably see a swimming pool there.

This one is really wild, but make sure you read the info below before you view the video and turn up the volume if you can. This is a car advertisement from Great Britain. When they finished filming the ad, the film editor noticed something moving along the side of the car, like a ghostly white mist. They found out that a person had been killed a year earlier in that exact same spot. The ad was never put on TV because of the unexplained ghostly phenomenon. Watch the front end of the car closely as it clears the trees in the middle of the screen and you'll see the white mist crossing in front of the car then following it along the road....Spooky! Is it a ghost, or is it simply mist? You decide. If you listen to the ad, you'll even hear the cameraman whispering in the background about it near the end of the commercial. A little creepy but it seems to be authentic!