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vinny9 — 2010-06-24T21:32:55-04:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4mYjc7g-so

Click the link.
Click the soccer ball in the scrubber (the bottom menu bar with the slider).

Nil-Nil Draw + Sound of Angry Bees = World's Greatest Spectacle

chrisdye — 2010-06-22T20:40:59-04:00

Surf the web as if you're at the World Cup! http://www.vuvuzela-time.co.uk

Sneaky

vinny9 — 2010-06-08T19:30:08-04:00

Go to google.
Search "world cup".
Tons of good info is listed at the top.
Make sure you scroll to the bottom.

Think Jerry would react this way?

registeredname — 2009-10-28T12:35:07-04:00

Statistics on Everything in the World

chrisdye — 2009-10-22T11:24:31-04:00

On this planet so far this year, have there been more bicycles produced or abortions performed? Find out here! Worldometers

Blogs are so 1918

chrisdye — 2008-01-08T13:58:14-05:00

A man is posting his grandfather's letters from the First World War trenches on a blog, 90 years to the day from when they were written:

http://wwar1.blogspot.com/

People Powered News

dustin — 2007-11-13T17:57:57-05:00

The Real News Network is working on an audacious plan to change the economics (and truthiness) of television journalism. Watch their intro video, it makes a good case:

Time Zone Map

dustin — 2007-10-02T14:46:18-04:00

Wikipedia has a really nice map of the time zone divisions around the world. Clicking the image will take you to the full 4779x1979 map. A number of interesting political-geographic choices have been made regarding time zones. China is huge, but keeps everything in the same time zone. Europe is pretty wide, but also keeps mostly in 1 time zone. The UK is close enough geographically to be in time with Europe, but is 1 hour off instead. India and some other countries are 30 minutes off the normal hours. It's an entertaining hodgepodge.

You live in an amazing world

dustin — 2007-07-30T03:20:41-04:00

Watch this beautiful trailer for the BBC series Planet Earth, and have a happy day. I command it.

GDP Density Map

dustin — 2007-01-15T03:57:03-05:00

From Econbrowser: The distribution of world income comes this map of "GDP density", calculated by multiplying GDP per capita by the number of people per square kilometer.

Hip

Bryan — 2006-10-23T17:05:41-04:00

You can listen to 4 songs off the new Tragically Hip album on their, you guessed it, myspace page.

1Up!

vinny9 — 2006-07-20T09:49:50-04:00

How different people saw the Zidane headbutt