links for 2006-12-28
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Looks like the IKEA store that’s supposed to be north of Cincinnati won’t be opening until 2008. Crap.
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A look at some of the most important news stories of the past year in Indiana.
links for 2006-12-27
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Animations of how maps have changed over centuries due to politics and religion.
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Mortified is a comic excavation of teen angst artifacts (journals, poems, letters, lyrics, home movies, schoolwork) as shared by their original authors… in front of total strangers.
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The official website dedicated to increasing awareness while providing diagnosis and treatment for Adultitis, the sinister epidemic that makes the Black Death look like a trip to Disneyland.
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For the first time, an inhabited island has disappeared beneath rising seas.
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The number of U.S. military members killed since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003 to at least 2,978 — five more than the number killed in the Sept. 11 attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
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Awarding no bid contracts and not overseeing how the money was spent has apparently lost us tons of money.
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Wikipedia’s giant list of television christmas specials.
links for 2006-12-26
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Much of the conventional wisdom of regarding sexual predators is overblown.
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One of the greatest challenges we face in the design field is communicating design decisions to other stakeholders (e.g. Business unit, Marketing, Engineering). We’re often forced to attempt this through a requirements document.
links for 2006-12-25
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Dressing up your pets for the holidays.
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Christmas carols quiz. I missed #16, but got the rest.
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White House sensores a New York Times piece, not because there’s classified information in it, but because it makes the White House look bad. Fuckers.
links for 2006-12-24
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“Women, without male guidance, are illogical, frivolous, and incapable of making any decisions beyond what to make for dinner.” – Shut the fuck up, you stupid bitch.
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The U.S. military on Thursday charged four Marines with murder and four others with dereliction of duty in the 2005 killing of 24 unarmed civilians in Haditha, Iraq. Murtha got death threats for discussing this last year, because the right wing claimed th
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“Nigeria is considering a bill that would ban any form of association among gays. Everything from sharing a restaurant meal to going to gay clubs would become illegal.” – Wow. Shut the fuck up, Nigeria.
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Scottsdale police are investigating an alleged hate crime reported by a gay couple who said they were jumped by as many as seven men outside a Scottsdale restaurant. – Hmm. Given how often this happens, I’m surprised how far it made it’s way around the bl
links for 2006-12-23
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Vintage Christmas images and photos.
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A report released by a marijuana public policy analyst contends that the market value of pot produced in the U.S. exceeds $35 billion — more than the crop value of such heartland staples as corn, soybeans and hay, which are the top three legal cash crop
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Your Guide to Airplane Seats and In-flight Amenities
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50,000 copies of An Inconvenient Truth to give away to teachers in the United States.
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The US is insolvent. There is simply no way for our national bills to be paid under current levels of taxation and promised benefits. Our federal deficits alone now total more than 400% of GDP.
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This map illustrates the ‘Totem Foods’ of North America, celebrating ”the many distinctive regional food traditions on the North American continent by featuring a totem food key to the identity of each region.
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Michael Crowley wrote a story hitting novelist Michael Crichton’s denials that global warming was a proved phenomenon. Crichton responds by writing Crowley into a novel as a pedophile.
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Bears have stopped hibernating in the mountains of northern Spain, scientists revealed yesterday, in what may be one of the strongest signals yet of how much climate change is affecting the natural world.
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The best part is that the have a list of “most overrated” books. Good to know.
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I’m very guilty. Hanging head in shame.
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Stores profit millions on unused cards. – Personally, I’ve NEVER left a giftcard go unspent. I usually use it in the first couple of weeks after I get it.
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Every week, a group of illustrators pick a fictional character and do their own version of a drawing of him/her. Interesting to compare artistic styles of well-known icons.
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News stories that didn’t get widespread coverage in the last year. I actually did blog about #3, though very few others did.
Funny Cookie Fight
A couple of teenage sisters fighting over the last cookie.
links for 2006-12-22
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To compile these year-end lists and graphs, Google reviewed a variety of the most popular search terms that people typed into Google.
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Reality check: 95 percent of Americans had premarital sex – CNN.comMore than nine out of 10 Americans, men and women alike, have had premarital sex, according to a new study. The high rates extend even to women born in the 1940s, challenging perceptions that people were more chaste in the past.
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Dan Savage seens up the witch hunt going on at Haggard’s church to out closeted homosexuals.
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“She ought to be careful because I’ll send one of my friends to pick up her girlfriend and I think it would be very easy.” This is the standard homophobic attack on lesbians – I can “convert” your girlfriend because women aren’t really gay anyway. Fuck yo
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Best. Oxymoronic. Headline. Ever. Opposition to gay marriage is discrimination against gay people.
links for 2006-12-21
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Write a note for your friend, and a monkey will read your note out loud over email. Yeah, just try it.
links for 2006-12-19
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Yeah, that’ll get you elected president. Good plan!
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Google’s new patent search.
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Armadillo Run is a physics-based puzzle game. You have to build structures with the purpose of getting an armadillo to a certain point in space.
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A blog about Disney’s haunted mansion rides.
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People playing with their Wii games.
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Ian notes the power and importance of Tiny Corrections Over a Long Period of Time.
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Fun Home is #1. Nice. I have to get that, I’ve read tons of reviews.
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Todd Dominey explains how he ripped and then sold all of his 3000+ CD collection, clearing the clutter out of his apartment and making a bit of money to boot.
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Recommended on a blog, just making a note to examine these guys later.
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Todd Dominey’s original post, detailing how he stores his digital music.
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Music storage for CDs if you want to get rid of your jewel cases.
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Time used a quote from psychologist Carol Gillian in their article on Mary Cheney’s pregnancy. Too bad they didn’t quote her accurately and distorted her research. She’s speaking out.
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Over the past 10 years, more than 50 young people aged 30 and under were violently murdered by assailants who targeted them because they did not fit stereotypes for masculinity or femininity. The Gender Public Advocacy Coalition (GenderPAC) today released
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