(http://tastyresearch.files.wordpress.com/2006/10/popvssodamap.png)This is the best map ever.
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Tomatoes are the only food I've encountered that trigger a gag reflex in me. Tomatoes make me physically wretch. It's so strong a sensation that I can detect a single tomato seed in a sandwich that has been de-tomatoed.
Sometimes people find it strange that I have no problem with pasta sauces, ketchup, or even tomato soup (it goes great with grilled cheese sandwiches). I say that they taste nothing like an actual tomato.
Does that make sense? Am I insane?
What you Jerseyites need to do is send me care packages of tomatoes when the time comes.
Do you know if that drawing is by Kim Deitch (awesome underground cartoonist)? It looks like his style - especially the lettering. I didn't see a signature on it.
Do you know if that drawing is by Kim Deitch (awesome underground cartoonist)? It looks like his style - especially the lettering. I didn't see a signature on it.
I really don't know but this is the blog I saw it on, you could ask there: http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/
Do you know if that drawing is by Kim Deitch (awesome underground cartoonist)? It looks like his style - especially the lettering. I didn't see a signature on it.
I really don't know but this is the blog I saw it on, you could ask there: http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/
Thanks for the link. It's not Kim Deitch, but Malachi Ward (http://malachiward.blogspot.com/2007/12/map-of-heaven.html).
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I don't buy it.
I'm becoming a crank, I suppose, but I should point out that I-40 goes to Wilmington, NC, which is more than 100 miles south and east of Raleigh.
Colorado tries to beat the fat. go us!!!
I'm becoming a crank, I suppose, but I should point out that I-40 goes to Wilmington, NC, which is more than 100 miles south and east of Raleigh.
Have I mentioned that I "have" a "beach" house in Wilmington?
^ That is fucking awesome, RegJoe. Nice work!
The leanest state has an obesity rate of ONLY 18.4%. Wow.
Yeah, but it looks like if you drive a half-hour north you'll be able to find plenty of dudes.
Yeah, but it looks like if you drive a half-hour north you'll be able to find plenty of dudes.
I wish--I'm in Buffalo. Apparently I need to switch coasts.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2007/06/singles_map_lg.jpg)
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2007/06/singles_map_lg.jpg)
I wonder why this is.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2007/06/singles_map_lg.jpg)
I wonder why this is.
Jason, your Susannah icon means I have to read all your posts twice and they only make sense once.
War?
War?
Ain't no war in the US.
War?
Jason, your Susannah icon means I have to read all your posts twice and they only make sense once.
The same can be said regarding Susannah and her Jason icon.
It's no consolation to be the one guy who got eaten by a shark, no matter how cool or exclusive.
It's no consolation to be the one guy who got eaten by a shark, no matter how cool or exclusive.
You only think this because you're not cool enough.
(http://www.yesbutnobutyes.com/NYviewers.jpg)
(http://www.yesbutnobutyes.com/NYviewers.jpg)
Yeah, right, like we're really that enthusiastic about upstate New York.
Have you every wondered which part of the other side of the earth is directly below you? Find out using this map tunneling tool. (http://www.freemaptools.com/tunnel-to-other-side-of-the-earth.htm)
More men die of suicide than from car accidents? That seems surprising.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2007/06/singles_map_lg.jpg)
I wonder why this is.
(http://salsaandchips.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/bflineup41.jpg)
Here's a map distorted based on where the 1.6 billion air passengers per year originate from:
(http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/images/largepng/29.png)
I click this every ten seconds:
http://www.270towin.com/simulation/
I click this every ten seconds:
http://www.270towin.com/simulation/
This is pure awesome web-sightedness. I had to run the simulator 47 times before I saw the first result with McCain winning.
This means, of course, that McCain is a lock.
If you earn under $150,000 per year, I thereby encourage you to begin burying your most prized possessions in a friend's back yard (your own back yard is the first place they will look.)
Congratulations, Tom, mid-level cardboard administrators such as yourself are about to get a whole lot richer. And that money will have some actual value through most of the winter! Spend it fast.
I'm so glad no one posted this yet - possibly my favorite fictional map of all time. There's so much awesome stuff going on here. Jack Kirby's mind never stopped ruling for a second.
(http://www.popshots.org/wordpress/images/kamandi_map.jpg)
Experiments are already underway at the 5,000 foot level, but the lab intends to run its dark matter experiments as deep as possible in a lab called the Xenon detector experiment, or LUX. Doing the experiments deep inside the earth isn't just a demonstration in mad science; it's also a way to keep out interfering cosmic radiation.
The effects of dark matter in these experiments are so minuscule that any interfering radiation could throw off any experiments done at ground level. To get any real data, these experiments require a lot of shielding. Thousands of feet of earth should do the job just fine.
This $550 million project should be up and running by 2016.
(http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/io9/2009/06/dusel_h800.jpg)QuoteExperiments are already underway at the 5,000 foot level, but the lab intends to run its dark matter experiments as deep as possible in a lab called the Xenon detector experiment, or LUX. Doing the experiments deep inside the earth isn't just a demonstration in mad science; it's also a way to keep out interfering cosmic radiation.
The effects of dark matter in these experiments are so minuscule that any interfering radiation could throw off any experiments done at ground level. To get any real data, these experiments require a lot of shielding. Thousands of feet of earth should do the job just fine.
This $550 million project should be up and running by 2016.
Cost to erect New Yankee Stadium: 1.5 billion $
Cost to build 8000' deep underground dark matter research laboratory: 550 million $
huh.
I don't think so. If I remember correctly, the bends are caused by the additional pressure that the water applies to you and your body not being able to decompress from that as quickly as it is retired to when you surface too quickly.
I wonder if you could get the bends from being that deep in the earth.
Google tells me that much underground work involved the use of compressed air (to prevent cave-ins or to keep out water), so the bends might indeed be a danger for the people involved in the construction of such a facility.but the cause of the bends is the differential in pressure outside of your body and how your lungs expand and contract with that pressure, I thought? That's why it's called decompression sickness? The compressed air would lead to nitrogen narcosis, but not the bends, if I'm thinking correctly.
The bends are caused by dissolved nitrogen entering the bloodstream and moving into the soft tissues, then expanding, forming bubbles, when decompression takes place too quickly. As long as one is under pressure, there's no problem.
Nitrogen narcosis, on the other hand, happens while one is under compression. The nitrogen dissolved in the blood alters the way electricity is conducted in the brain, leading to loopiness. One source I read said that every fifty feet of depth is equivalent in its effects to one alcoholic drink, which led me to wonder a bit about those driven to dive.
I'm seeing a scene where a concerned family member confronts the NN junkie, waving a pair of flippers and shrieking, "You told me you got rid of all this stuff!" Then there's a big search for more paraphernalia. Weights are discovered. A mask. An oxygen tank secreted in the washing machine.
I'm seeing a scene where a concerned family member confronts the NN junkie, waving a pair of flippers and shrieking, "You told me you got rid of all this stuff!" Then there's a big search for more paraphernalia. Weights are discovered. A mask. An oxygen tank secreted in the washing machine.
This made me laugh a lot. What a horrible place to hide an oxygen tank.
Iraq = Egypt, courtesy of Fox News:
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Iraq = Egypt, courtesy of Fox News:
this irritates me.
Fighting about The Bends?
Are we really sinking
This low?
Fighting about The Bends?
Are we really sinking
This low?
Actually, we're rising too quickly.
And it was the air pressure.BOOM!
David McCullough wrote it and therefore it is true. Case closed.
David McCullough . . . said that The Bends was first documented because of the men who died working on the Brooklyn Bridge.
David McCullough . . . said that The Bends was first documented because of the men who died working on the Brooklyn Bridge.
If you're saying he said that was when the term "the bends" was first used, fine. If you're saying he said those were the first documented cases of the ailment known as the bends, then either he was wrong or you're misremembering. My money's on the latter.
I've always preferred Coke to Pepsi; here's another reason.
I've always preferred Coke to Pepsi; here's another reason.
I don't get it, but I can't see the second picture, either.
Pointless redesign of packaging is one of my many, many, many* pet peeves.
David McCullough . . . said that The Bends was first documented because of the men who died working on the Brooklyn Bridge.
If you're saying he said that was when the term "the bends" was first used, fine. If you're saying he said those were the first documented cases of the ailment known as the bends, then either he was wrong or you're misremembering. My money's on the latter.
Oof! Harsh! But fair.
As for Pepsi's, I like the 1898 version the best. It looks bonkers.
I've always preferred Coke to Pepsi; here's another reason.
I don't get it, but I can't see the second picture, either.
As for Pepsi's, I like the 1898 version the best. It looks bonkers.
What does it serve?
I forget where I found this.
(http://i611.photobucket.com/albums/tt191/Aunt1eChr1st1na/comedy_chart_small.jpg)
Green tea in the afternoon mellows me out. I don't notice any caffeine.
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2567/3862406612_766f5378cf_o.jpg)Not a map or chart, but probably part of the "shit":
Those numbers looked strange to me, so I did a search. Here's Gallup's numbers for the same question for this month:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/123161/Republican-Party-Image-Improves-Trails-Democrats.aspx (http://www.gallup.com/poll/123161/Republican-Party-Image-Improves-Trails-Democrats.aspx)
Favorable ratings of the Republican Party, by region:
East 37
Midwest 42
South 44
West 37
That seems more accurate given party registrations. It wouldn't surprise me to see overall GOP favorability in the East at, say, 30% in some polls, but 7% is ridiculous. Not ridiculous for Manhattan, for example, but ridiculous for the whole region, which includes upstate NY and central PA, after all. Rick Santorum didn't lose 85%-15%.
Fredericks' posting comes from a Washington Monthly columnist's (wrong) interpretation of a Research 2000 poll for DailyKOS. The poll was actually about Congressional Republicans, not the Republican Party.
The Republican Party is more popular in the South, but not that much more. Something's wrong when polls in the same week are so far apart, and when the regions are that far off.
I apologize for my wonkery, but analyzing data is a good bit of what I get paid for.
Appreciate the clarification Buffer. I still have a much cooler picture. And you know the olde cliche: A picture.....
Don't you think the Actual Republicans might as well merge with the WAWKWNRD while they're at it?
Sort of NSFW, so I'll just provide a link: A Map of the Lands of Human Sexuality (http://www.obsidianfields.com/lj/sexmap1.2.gif)
Learn something new every day: bootblacking!
The Scale of the Universe (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/525347) (interactive chart)
The Scale of the Universe (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/525347) (interactive chart)
This is great.
(http://www.patspapers.com/images/uploads/flush_game.jpg)
I watch hockey approximately once every four years, so I don't have much of a yardstick to measure it by. But, yeah, it was a good one.
I watch hockey approximately once every four years, so I don't have much of a yardstick to measure it by. But, yeah, it was a good one.
I never watch hockey, but even I could tell that game was interesting, even if one didn't care who won. Not as gripping as curling, of course.
Could've posted this in the tattoo thread, but since this is the maps, charts, and shit thread...
This was posted in another forum I frequent, I'm assuming for a laugh so maybe I'm making a bigger deal of it than it really is... but I got pretty annoyed with it.
(http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/8886/tattooflowchart5179879.jpg) (http://img163.imageshack.us/i/tattooflowchart5179879.jpg/)
I hate the idea that every tattoo needs to have a special, personal meaning and a backstory - you know, your kids' names, your dead grandfather, 9-11 ("Does the tattoo have special meaning to you?"). It's a ridiculous notion spurred on by awful tv shows like "Miami/LA Ink", and I don't care for it. Hey munch, how about you don't do a hideous portrait of your precious cat that died ten years ago, and go for something artful instead? Why does it have to be about you?
Also, that chart was made by moralist squares who need to deal with their own issues about women and gays before going off about other people's tats. "Appropriate to show to children"? "Do you want men to think you're easy"? "Do you prefer to 'catch'"? Proud moments.
I'm not crazy, am I? Or do I just have too much time on my hands?
(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/04/27/world/27powerpoint_CA0_337-span/27powerpoint_CA0-articleLarge.jpg)
Powerpoint slide depicting US strategy in Afghanistan.
(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/04/27/world/27powerpoint_CA0_337-span/27powerpoint_CA0-articleLarge.jpg)
Powerpoint slide depicting US strategy in Afghanistan.
What Could Make The Gulf Oil Spill Worse? How About a Hurricane.When I first read this, I thought "Buffcoat" i.e. (Mr. Technical). Read the beginning checked poster found Emily. Then I thought, "Buff would be too afraid to post this much reality."
(http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m47/hippocatgeek/hurricanespaghetti.jpg)
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/06/what-could-make-the-gulf-oil-spill-worse-how-about.php?ref=fpblg
(http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m47/hippocatgeek/chart-of-the-day-scariest-job-ch-1.jpg)
http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/06/chart-of-the-day-the-scariest-job-chart-ever-just-got-even-scarier.php?ref=fpblg
The Scale of the Universe (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/525347) (interactive chart)
The Scale of the Universe (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/525347) (interactive chart)
What's Colorado doing differently?
I'm always grateful when I click on this thread and see that the posts are about the first or second thing and never the third.
I'm always grateful when I click on this thread and see that the posts are about the first or second thing and never the third.
Rather obtuse there, Buff, old bean.
What's Colorado doing differently?
I see your angle: you're being cute. I was using the second definition.I'm always grateful when I click on this thread and see that the posts are about the first or second thing and never the third.
Rather obtuse there, Buff, old bean.
You'd rather I be acute?