Secret World Headquarters (1)
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Does anyone have 7 or 8 million bucks they could lend me? I've finally found the perfect spot for my secret underground lair: a mile of tunnels deep beneath the heart of London: That's room for lots of plans for world domination, guest quarters, and perhaps even a secret submarine dock, or giant burrowing tank of some sort. Actually, if "the air is dry, hot and stale," it would be perfect for shelves full of ...
Robert E. Lee Motel (1)
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I've shot this location before a few years ago, and I think I even posted it here, but I found it fascinating enough to go looking for it again recently when my wandering took me near Bristol, VA. Unfortunately it's now quickly being overtaken by the underbrush and is fast disappearing. It's definitely beyond saving; I would imagine that within another year or so the structure will begin to collapse.
Public Transportation (16)
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Fifty most populous cities and metropolitan areas are as determined by Wikipedia. Distances between cities are driving distances as determined by Google maps.
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Scott Wells said:
Makes me swoon
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Fernando said:
This is cool, although I'm not sure being only 2 hours from Rochester is an improvement, per se. Anyway, Dorothy makes neat drawrings.
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Dre said:
The high-speed rail between LA and Vegas is in perpetual limbo. Cali wants Nevada to foot the bill because most people will be heading to Vegas; Vegas wants Cali to pay for some of it.
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Meave said:
if we can dreeeeeeeeaaaaammmm it, then we can doooooooooo it
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Harith said:
Fernando already posted this, but it's just too compelling not to repost. How come this doesn't happen??
Booty Awareness (11)
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The Gluteus Maximus. It’s the king of all the skeletal muscles in your body. By sheer volume it takes up more space within your body than any other muscle. This may be apparent in some individuals more than others. But the fact of the matter is, no matter who you are, what you have behind you is big news. Lately, wherever you look you’ll find fitness experts singing the praises of abdominals and the core. ...
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Scott Wells said:
Amen. I discovered this in physical therapy. The work they have me doing is better than a butt-lift.
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Josh said:
Wow, I had no idea our butts were so important
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Dedalus said:
It’s the king of all the skeletal muscles in your body.
330 - From Pickin’ Cotton to Pickin’ Presidents (86)
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Both these maps show the same segment of the southern United States, and demonstrate a similar pattern. Yet each describes a wholly other era and a completely different process. The bottom map dates from 1860 (i.e. the eve of the Civil War), and indicates where cotton was produced at that time, each dot representing 2,000 bales of the stuff. Cotton was King back then, and mainly so in the densely cultivated border area between Louisiana ...
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Tambu said:
eccezionale! facilmente immaginabile, ma vederlo fa tutto un altro effetto!
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Erica Baker said:
I was hoping Strange Maps would do something like this. Steak Sauce!
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Julie said:
Fascinating!
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Saket said:
wow...
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Keith said:
Whoa. Guess people don't generally move far from where they were born.
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Jared Zimmerman said:
strange, interesting.
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RJO said:
Amazing...
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Tometheus said:
I'm a /little/ dubious of the actual maps used. (The 'source' site doesn't mention where the maps originate.) The cotton maps I /could/ find do match closely with the Obama regions on this map, but not /this/ close. There's no question from the others that there is a rough correlation, but I'd like to see a reference on this one. [citation needed] indeed.
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dH said:
OMG
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glecharles said:
This is a fascinating look at the overlay between slavery and the voting patterns in the South in 2008.
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Scott Wells said:
I believe I mentioned this corelation at work, but I wanted to prove I wasn't, er, whistling Dixie.
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joz joz joz said:
I love stuff like this. Thanks, Moye!
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Matt said:
Thanks John for the tip.
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PHB said:
This is visualization of statistical correlation at its finest.
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Luther said:
resharing because i love it
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Caleb said:
I think it has a lot to do with population density, and some to do with racial distribution in those areas. (I say "some" because I'm naively optimistic that race did not play a _huge_ role in this election) But still -- interesting.
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Stu Rich said:
Interesting correlations
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clickykbd said:
If you like maps and mapping related things, you'll like this blog.
Rep. Broun regrets linking Obama, Hitler (1)
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Georgia Congressman Paul Broun Tuesday backed away from comparing the policies of President-elect Obama to those of Hitler or a Marxist dictator. After stirring a controversy that was grabbing national attention, the Republican lawmaker from Athens apologized for making such references. "I regret putting it that way," Broun told WGAC radio in Augusta. "I apologize to anyone who has taken offense at that."
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Scott Wells said:
This is my parent's representative, and would be mine if I still lived in Georgia. Heavens.
Even With Prop 8 Win, D.C. Could See Marriage Equality Bill (1)
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Although it now appears California's Proposition 8 will pass by a slim margin - our sister site LAist reports a 4.2 percent difference in votes - opponents of the measure aren't throwing in the towel yet. A statement on the No On Prop 8 web site says, "we expect that there are more than 3 million and possibly as many as 4 million absentee and provisional ballots yet to be counted." We reported in September ...
Convert Scanned PDF Documents to Text with Google OCR (59)
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There are two types of PDF documents – those created by sending Office files, images, etc. to an Acrobat like PDF printer and those created by scanning physical paper like pages of a book, legal documents, etc. Google could always index PDF documents created by conversion but now they also recognize text from PDFs that are generated by scanning paper documents using OCR software. This is a scanned document and this is the html text ...
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Razzu said:
Wait for the Google bots to spider your stuff.Once done, type the query "site:abc.com/pdf filetype:pdf" to see the PDF documents as HTML.
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ravidor said:
:)
Seminaries With No Internet and No Power (1)
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Further to the subject of ‘Technology Advancing Theological Education’, Jennifer Turner writes:“I'm learning a lot from this conversation. However, my original post included the words 'wind-up' because 2 of the colleges I visited this year had no internet link and no dependable power either. Villages and towns in Kenya and Sudan (the two countries involved) often have re-charging booths (primarily for mobile phones), but these are time consuming and costly by local standards. So what ...
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Scott Wells said:
Begs the question, too, about global democratic participation.
Seminaries With No Internet and No Power (1)
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Further to the subject of ‘Technology Advancing Theological Education’, Jennifer Turner writes:“I'm learning a lot from this conversation. However, my original post included the words 'wind-up' because 2 of the colleges I visited this year had no internet link and no dependable power either. Villages and towns in Kenya and Sudan (the two countries involved) often have re-charging booths (primarily for mobile phones), but these are time consuming and costly by local standards. So what ...
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Scott Wells said:
Begs the question, too, about global democratic participation.
Online: 8 Cool Organizer Tools to Print For Free (4)
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Find out where to print off this candy bar calendar and more, under the jump. In this green era, it seems everybody's trying to go paperless (Even Unplggd, with our post on the paperless home office). But there's a reason that good old paper has stood the test of time in this digital age: It's cheap, portable and has been universally compatible for a few hundred years. Even the most tech-savvy of us probably put ...
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