Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Center of Attention

What happens when you go to Google Maps and just zoom in? You find yourself looking at Coffeyville, Kansas. What about the program Google Earth (basically Google maps on steroids)? You find yourself looking at Lawrence, Kansas. But is Google correct to place either of these towns at the center of the country? Read this clever little article about it at Wired.com.

My Mom is from the questionably named Kansas town of Centropolis. It is neither the center of anything nor is it a -polis, i.e. city. But that's ok, none of the Kansas towns of Centralia, Clay Center, Lincoln Center, Rush Center, Smith Center, Valley Center, or Yates Center is either. Not one of these towns is the exact center of the country; that honor goes to a pig farm four miles west of Lebanon, Ks.

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Yay, Kansas.

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We also have a really big ball of twine.

It's up toward Lebanon.

You can see both the same day.

If you want to.

Oh, nevermind.

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