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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 their own windows: Map 1 Map 2

What do you notice? If you’re anything like me, and I know I am, the correlation between tracts that have a higher density renting population and a higher density Latino population is striking. Now this may not be “news”, but visuals are always cool.

…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 of the month — zooomr anyone?) and with an emphasis on user collaboration. Quintessential “Web 2.0″ ;)

..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 die, while Ali, raised as the 11th son of an impoverished but devout street-sweeper in Damascus, loves death too much to live.” The Iranians, like bin Laden, promulgate this mythical antithesis, which, like all caricatures, has elements of truth in it. But what the Iranians, like the al Qaedists, do not fully fathom, is that Jason, upon concluding that he would lose not only his iPod and earring, but his entire family and suburb as well, is capable of conjuring up things far more frightening than anything in the 8th-century brain of Mr. Ahmadinejad. Unfortunately, the barbarity of the nightmares at Antietam, Verdun, Dresden, and Hiroshima prove that well enough.

Preach ON, brotha! Now, how to convince Mr. Hanson to run for prez…

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 love the expression on Dad’s face. Mom mentioned the photographer just *had* to use the shot of them performing their hardest move:)

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 >>