(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…

from James Lileks' Ad Archive, ever fresh and green

(as usual, there may be more than one in this gem from Shorpy)

…and now if I could just figure how to do it for mp3s…

(more implications of Cloud Computing)

from Kevin Kelly's Technium

via a comment on Michael Wesch's Digital Ethnography

good old Wondermark hits the bullseye

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