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From their description of the video: "We went to 40 different Dunkin' Donuts in 1 day... we traveled 350 miles in 17 and ½ hours and consumed nothing but Dunkin Donuts products." We're pretty sure that we could get to 40 different stores in way less time, logging far less miles. There have to be about 40 in the Downtown and Financial District areas, but if you creep out a little you're going to find a dozen in Allston, a couple in JP and Roxbury, more in Dorchester, Cambridge, Somerville, and Medford.

There have been a lot of reports about problems with the MBTA's online mapping service. Most of them arise from the trip planner which has all sorts of bugs that are still being worked out. One thing that is noticeable when you look at the map overlay of the T's routes is the connect-the-dots manner in which stops are connected. We recently came across a map that accurately maps the T's actual routes (as...

While you were waiting in line for the CharlieGate to open the MBTA has been hard at work. Fixing escalators? No. Running busses on schedule? Of course not. Giving their website a complete overhaul? You got it. This morning browsing over to the MBTA.com website brings up a whole new page. Compared to the last 2002-esque design of the T website of yesterday the new implementation is in the flashy web 2.0 vein.

It's a funny thing when you tell people they can take the bus from point A to point B in Boston. Most people just laugh. The buses in Boston don't really run on their schedule, though some get close. The problem is that most folks know how to get around using the trains and trolleys. busses simply confound most users in their routes. As they occasionally pass by they display things like "via Broadway" or "via Kenmore" with some indication of destination or origin of the line. But with the layout of the city streets it is sometimes difficult to figure out which Tremont or School Street in the city they will be traveling down, and if you'll actually be able to get to your destination. Thanks to intrepid reader Stuart who sent us to Google Maps Mania to find a new tool on the tubes that gives us a map overlay of the bus routes in Boston. It was cool when we found that we could draw the MBTA train lines onto Google Maps, but now we can find out where the busses run. The site is an experiment in Google Map API and javascript, and it returns an error for us when we browse over in Firefox. Apparently the script is slow – which we find humorously (or ironically) fitting for the MBTA busses. There's room for improvement and Laura (the author) welcomes suggestions. Only routes 1 through 105 are represented thus far. Another Google Map experiment that's got some utility for the masses. We'll take it.

It's that time of the year again. If you're not renewing your lease this month or next, you might be out on the prowl for a new rental unit. Last year about this time we ran a story about what we thought was a beautiful invention – a Google Map and Craigslist housing mash-up. It's still a beautiful invention but now you've got even more options. Ian Reardon pulled together a little more user friendly interface than what was released last year. The map plots points of all the apartments for rent, as listed on Craigslist, within your search parameters.

Bostonist is a huge fan of the Google Map. Recently we were busting out some directions for a friend coming to visit from all the way up in Everett. While not a bad bike ride the decision was to take the automobile. The map worked out well, door to door no problem, but we clicked hybrid just because we were hoping that it would show us what an “human-animal” hybrid was, and why it was fierce enough to make the state of the union address last night. We ask to you, dear reader, can you identify where the Everett, MA location of the Target chain? They've added extra zoom in the Boston area, so if you can, might you clue Bostonist in on whether or not they’re accepting helicopter shoppers, or at least helicopter deliveries? What might it mean if they do actually accept drop-off service.

Baby its cold outside. The weather has brought us temperatures that we’re not quite ready to handle. Bostonist doesn’t want to go outside and find our next meal. Sitting in our apartment we’re deciding if we’re going to venture out and sit in a toasty restaurant to dig up dinner or if take out or, better yet, delivery is in our future. Where do we turn? The internets of course. Two new services have made...

Stop Snitchin’ shirts have reportedly been pulled off the shelves in a number of local stores. Boston Police, with their shiny new blog, apprehended 77 persons on outstanding warrants over the weekend. Crime statistics still say that Boston has hit a ten year high for violent crime, as measured by the murder rate. Bostonist often touts the merits of the libertarian values. Be that as it may we still wonder how 77 people were walking...

These days everyone seems to be mapping this or that with their new found geek tool: Google maps. Bostonist has been fascinated with the Google Map mash-up since we saw them go live. They’ve done everything from mapping the T onto surface streets, telling us about our local sex offender, and brought that fleeting thing called memory maps when Flickr met Google (maybe they frown on it now that Flickr is Yahoo’s). Recently Bostonist stumbled upon a map mash-up that combines a bunch of mashes onto whichever map you prefer, Yahoo, MSN, or the wicked Google format.

E. Forbes "Inside Job" Smiley III made headlines today as he went to court to plead not-guilty on charges of map theft. The Martha’s Vineyard resident was alledgedly caught on tape at Yale’s Beinecke Library removing a map from a book after a librarian found an x-acto blade which was assumed dropped by Smiley. Boston Public Library, the Harvard Map Collection, and libraries across the world are checking their records for missing maps that Smiley may have been responsible for removing. Repeatedly Smiley has been described as a trusted map dealer with connections to the "close knit map collector’s circle." Bostonist trusts the description, we don’t know anyone who collects maps, just those who mash them up.

Bostonist, where have you been? Why, stuck in traffic of course.