yup.

from Effect Measure

yup.

from Bruce Sterling, and consider substituting your favorite whipping boy for 'modern architecture': "This is the supreme imbecility of modern architecture, perpetuated by the venal complicity of the academies, the internment camps of the intelligentsia, where the young are forced into the onanistic recopying of classical models instead of throwing their minds open in the search for new frontiers and in the solution of the new and pressing problem…"

from Chris Lydon's Open Source. The 5 minutes of video are magnificently cogent

from the ever-helpful Wondermark

(one can wonder if "most mentioned" really means anything useful, but it's still a cool app)

nice clear interface to lots of data at subnational level

lovely cartograms clarify diversities

click on "Voting Shifts" and ponder

via FlowingData. A couple of years ago I'd have been all over this, harrassing people about its possibilities and being a generally pestiferous advocate. What is it a measure of that I'm NOT doing that?

(many of us who were around in those times will recognize the beautiful truths in this tale, and remember where we were and who we knew, and what went down…)

THIS is what's real…