Don't forget Dish, Texas. On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 03:38:31PM -0600, raghu wrote: > Wasn't there some small mid-western town which named itself Bismarck > in the 19'th century? > > http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/03/02/google.kansas.topeka/ > ----------------------------------------snip > At 79, Bill Bunten doesn't exactly understand the Internet boom. The > Topeka, Kansas, mayor has an e-mail account, he said, but his > assistants take care of most of his online communications and tend to > search the Web for him. > > But Bunten believes so firmly that younger residents of Kansas' > capital city will benefit from faster Internet connections that he > wants Topeka -- which he describes as a place of many lakes and the > site of a burgeoning market for animal-food research -- to change its > name for a month. > > In a formal proclamation Monday, Bunten announced his city will be > known as "Google" -- Google, Kansas. > > > > > > -raghu. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
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