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Road Map

vinny9 — 2010-04-21T01:01:08-04:00

Map of USA generated purely by mapping the roads

I Choo-Choo-Choose You

vinny9 — 2009-04-17T15:35:06-04:00

New US program for high-speed rail

I like. It even looks like it extends into Montreal and Vancouver!

PS: I wish I could post interesting news like this about Canada.

Those Are Large Numbers

vinny9 — 2009-04-15T13:32:42-04:00

A great look at the US 2009 proposed budget

Australians see happy face in night sky

chrisdye — 2008-12-01T11:47:17-05:00

"In the United States, the effect will be inverted and will appear as a frown."

Guaranteed Victory

vinny9 — 2008-10-08T10:02:38-04:00

How to work around the Electoral College without a constitutional amendment

When You Breathe What?

vinny9 — 2008-09-30T14:31:12-04:00

You Win Some, You Lose Some and Sometimes You Do Both

vinny9 — 2008-09-19T10:33:53-04:00

Vermont Congressman wins both Democrat and Republican nominations for the same post.

No Grids Allowed

vinny9 — 2008-09-16T13:16:08-04:00

Some seriously messed up gerrymandered districts (scroll down for pics)

Awayyyy We Go!

vinny9 — 2008-09-05T10:35:40-04:00

Electoral vote polling

So, bj (or anyone else), whatcha say?

Obama: 385
McCain: 153

Obama on religion and politics

Sean — 2008-02-11T16:44:37-05:00

For me at least, this 40 minute video is a pretty remarkable thing. Barack Obama speaking to a church charity about the role of faith in progressive society. He speaks as a Christian, but his words are thoughtful, attentive, tolerant, complicated. Even as an atheist I am persuaded and almost moved.

watch the video here

It's remarkable to me - almost unprecedented - when you contemplate that this guy might actually have a shot at the presidency.

Yes We Can

dustin — 2008-02-05T15:34:09-05:00

I'm rooting for Obama bigtime. Video comes from Dipdive.com.

Policemen inciting riots?

dustin — 2007-08-23T05:37:46-04:00

Here's a CBC report (video or text) about police dressing up as anarchists and trying to start a riot during the recent SPP protests in Quebec.

The boots of the provocateurs match those of the police, and the men fled behind the police line to escape. The police refuse to say who the men were, and no other protesters recognize them. You can watch the full union footage on youtube, which is where the CBC got the story from.

Average daily TV hours per country

dustin — 2007-07-25T02:59:18-04:00

The Economist provides this nifty chart of the average time spent watching TV in a bunch of countries.

The Muslims Are Breeding

vinny9 — 2007-07-17T16:40:24-04:00

A Cruise for US Conservatives

Map of single men versus single women

dustin — 2007-04-10T18:00:03-04:00

From a post at Creativity Exchange comes this distribution map of single people across the USA. The comments there have some discussion of it as well. I would be interested to see how Canada measures up.

West Coast pictures

dustin — 2007-04-06T18:00:40-04:00

I put up my west coast USA trip photos, 124 in total. My favorites are this tunnel, a shell, my brother, a clover field, an old truck, and this picture of flowers on the coast.

West Coast USA Trip

dustin — 2007-03-29T02:20:58-04:00

Trip 2 with my brother was a longer road trip down the west coast from Vancouver to San Francisco. On the way we spent nights in Seattle, Eugene, Arcata, and the Jughandle Creek Farm/Hostel near Mendocino.

Google measures the drive at 1,651 kilometers. We actually headed over to the winding coastal highway 1 right after Eugene, so in reality it was longer then that. We were driving in a rented Toyota Corolla and measured our actual mileage at between 34 and 38 miles per gallon.

Our first 2 nights we found free lodging care of cool people on CouchSurfing.com. The name pretty much explains it, and the service worked out great for us. The next 2 nights we were in smaller towns and stayed in a motel and hostel/farmhouse. We stumbled onto some crazy adventures in both though. By the end the running joke was that we were taking a hippy-granola tour of the west coast ;-).

In the San Fran Bay area we crashed at a friend's house and later met up with Luxers Hoodie and STM for some food and drinks. I knew them from over the internet, and it was cool to meet in person. I've now met 7 Luxers in 3 different cities. It's a fun perk of running an internet-wide community. I expect photoshopped pictures of us to appear on the Lux Forums shortly...

Attack the USA

dustin — 2007-02-13T03:31:56-05:00

Lux Delux 5.6 was released 2 weeks ago, and it came with a new map USA War Zone.

East vs West vs North vs South and spotted with major cities. Whether you want to defend her shores, or smash the great satan into pieces, Lux is here for you. Could this be used as a terrorist training program? Try it out as part of the 5.6 demo download.

Healthcare battle: Canada vs USA

dustin — 2007-01-17T03:20:32-05:00

We hear a lot in Canada about problems in our health care system. What we don't often hear about are the success stories. Here's an article from Yes Magazine, written from the US point of view and comparing their system with Canada's public one:

the United States has been the unwitting control subject in a 30-year, worldwide experiment comparing the merits of private versus public health care funding. For the people living in the United States, the results of this experiment with privately funded health care have been grim. The United States now has the most expensive health care system on earth and, despite remarkable technology, the general health of the U.S. population is lower than in most industrialized countries. Worse, Americans' mortality rates--both general and infant--are shockingly high.

Food for thought as the Canadian system continues to come under attack by private interests.

Wheat production vs. climate change

dustin — 2006-12-05T06:46:35-05:00

Check out this map showing the regions in North America that are viable for wheat production, now and in 2050:

Via Scientific American, and the map is originally from this BBC Science/Nature article.

Hot Grog: fast news

dustin — 2006-11-24T00:23:52-05:00

Hot Grog is a new website I setup to quickly read the internets. It uses RSS to grab news headlines from various sources and dumps them out in a simple list.

There's a few different pages covering various topics. Web Buzz is a great page to see all the fun stuff as it happens across the internet.

Please let me know what you think.