http://www.metafilter.com/tags/trafficaccidents Posts tagged with 'trafficaccidents' at MetaFilter. Tue, 05 Nov 2002 10:57:57 -0800 Tue, 05 Nov 2002 10:57:57 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/21388/ <a href="http://www.roadsidememorial.org/">Roadside memorials.</a> Every so often you'll catch one out of the corner of your eye--a makeshift cross on the side of a highway, or flowers tacked to a highway sign, marking a life that ended in that spot. Gives me chills--realistically, probably every single day we pass places where someone breathed their last, but we don't know it. Photographer Bill Sampson takes photographs of roadside memorials--called "descansos" from a Spanish word meaning rest--and collects them on his site. Loved ones are invited to submit memorials of their own. (Link via <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/front.htm">USA Today Web Guide</a>.) tag:metafilter.com,2002:site.21388 Tue, 05 Nov 2002 10:57:57 -0800 brokenlink carwrecks descansos memorials roadside trafficaccidents GaelFC