Isarithmic History of the Two-Party Vote →
Big words, but a really awesome visualization of the shifts in political preference from the 1920s through 2008 all over the United States.
There are two types of people who want to make games. People who don't know what they're getting into, and people who are jumping on the hot thing the other people are jumping onto. The people who actually do make great games are rounding error.
— Mike Lee
Hotmail Wins German Free Email Review →
Getested.de (owned by aha.de Internet) ranked Windows Live Hotmail 1st, Yahoo! 2nd, GMail 3rd, T-Online 4th, Freenet 5th, and Web.de 6th. Woot. Use the translator of your choice on the link to read more.
It almost makes me happy I use their service. Almost.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
— Carl Sagan (via crookedindifference)
Rep. Charlie Rangel Found Guilty of 11 Ethics Violations →
This man just cruised to reelection in his Harlem, NY district.
Cell Life and Art →
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/16/science/16animate.html?_r=1&hpAn interesting look at animation and modeling colliding with science.
Scientists Witness the Birth of a Black Hole →
The initial 1979 observation of the exploding star was made by an amateur astronomer from Western Maryland, but the profession's top scientists have studied it intently with increasingly sophisticated orbiting X-ray telescopes.Go amateur scientists!
The GOP Takeover in the States →
Republicans control 26 state legislatures and 29 gubernatorial seats, and have outright control of 21 states (both legislature and governor).
Each party tries to proves that the other party is unfit to rule. Both commonly succeed and are right.
— HL. Mencken