Independent verification of the vehicle’s speed is not necessary to support a conviction for speeding.Say what?
via Court Says Police In Ohio Can Just Guess How Fast You Were Going And Give You A Ticket | Techdirt.
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Court Says Police In Ohio Can Just Guess How Fast You Were Going And Give You A Ticket | Techdirt
If San Francisco Crime were Elevation | Doug McCune
These interesting visualizations transform San Francisco crime data into a topographical map. Mt. Loin and the Mission Range are not very surprising.
I’d be curious to see what a similar visualization for Atlanta would look like.
Locals and Tourists
See them all at: Locals and Tourists – a set on Flickr.
Wondering what century Microsoft thinks this is…
via tweetie
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PCRM >> Good Medicine Magazine >> Health vs. Pork: Congress Debates the Farm Bill >> Autumn 2007
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Oh, the irony
A 45-year-old woman, charged with ending a domestic dispute by killing her 26-year-old husband of five days, is a registered lobbyist for a group fighting domestic violence.
via ajc.com
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Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory
This is a great talk. Kahneman’s vacation thought experiment is particularly interesting.
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LBJ orders pants
Take a few minutes out of your day and spend it with this audio tape of Lyndon Baines Johnson, our 36th President, while he orders a few pairs of trousers from the Haggar company in Dallas.
via coudal.com
This is precisely what the internet was invented for.
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Richard Feynman explains magnets, sort of
via kottke.org
This is one of those down-the-rabbit-hole explanations like the ones that make Feynman’s books so interesting to read.
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