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Been playing with a new Google Maps mashup site, http://maps.webfoot.com/ — the gimmick to this one is that U.S. Census data is presented via some easy-to-use filters. After tinkering around with it for a bit, I made a mildly interesting discovery. Open each of the following maps of the Atlanta metro area in [...]

…is just-launched (Apr 5) startup jumpcut. Like most innovations, it may be a bit hard at first to get your head around what jumpcut is, or why it’s a big deal — but poke around. Think “flickr for videos” — except muy cooler than flickr (taking on flickr seems to be the flavor [...]

..in a nutshell :) Victor Davis Hanson’s latest piece for NRO is essentially a wake-up call to the mad mullahs in Tehran. To wit:

Ever since September 11, the subtext of this war could be summed up as something like, “Suburban Jason, with his iPod, godlessness, and earring, loves to live too much to [...]

Your parents become more active than you. So much for us dancing! Mom and Dad were famous a few days ago in Pickens County, and lemme tell you, the only things that make it in that paper are Billy Bob’s robbery at the Piggly Wiggly and a two-year-old announcing the marriage of their just-barely-graduated-high-school parents.
Gotta [...]

The only word is “chilling”. Not that people like this are out there, and not even that they are apparently successful scientists — what is chilling is that (at least a slice) of the professional scientific community would give (or even feign) approval or endorsement of such diabolical insanity.
Meeting Doctor Doom >>