I did have a thing at one point which sent traffic updates for my commuting route into my email, but it never really worked that well, 90% of said updates were irrelevant, and then it just broke entirely when I upgraded the client. So, feh.

I have a web browser, I know how to enter addresses, and if the thing I’m looking for hasn’t updated, it’s the work of a couple seconds to either close the tab or enter a different addy.

One plausible hypothesis I heard that might explain its bewildering persistence in popularity suggests that it did, technically, have a benefit of sorts when it was first invented. The catch is that when homeopathy was invented, conventional medicine was very primitive and extremely dangerous, and for all but the most serious, life-threatening cases you’d often be safer doing nothing at all than going to the doctor. Since homeopathic medicine does nothing at all, people who went to homeopaths will, by default, have seemed to get better results than those who went to what passed, back then, for a conventional doctor. That’s no longer true, but the group consciousness doesn’t seem to have caught up yet.

Looking forward to updates with building anticipation. :P