Men’s Health has published a list of America’s “drunkest” cities. The title is sexy, to be sure, but inaccurate. These are not the cities that consume the most alcohol. They are the cities with the most alcohol-related crime and deaths. The list was compiled using death rates from alcohol-related auto accidents and alcoholic liver disease, [...]

EveryBlock, the hyper-local news mapping site brainchild of Adrian Holovaty, has teamed up with the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times. The Tribune launched Tuesday; the Sun-Times launched today. Both papers publish a map and list of their local news stories from the past 48 hours, then link to those stories. Both papers are having iframe [...]

You can make this map without knowing any code. Really. Here’s how: 1. CREATE A SPREADSHEET. Go to Google Docs and create a new spreadsheet, or import an existing spreadsheet. You can have a lot or just a little information in the spreadsheet, but you will must have at least three columns: A title for [...]

St. Louis has finally been added to the cities you can see via Google’s Street View. Co-worker Kurt Greenbaum says the most detailed areas are in downtown St. Louis and along Highway 40. Google added 36 other cities too: • Huntsville, Ala. • Bakersfield, Fresno, Sacramento and Stockton, Calif. • Boca Raton, Cape Coral, Fort [...]