Category Archives: asides
Information is Beautiful may very well be my new favorite blog.
How does a nation that might close down a business for a single illness from a suspicious hamburger tolerate the carnage inflicted by our hospitals? How American Health Care Killed My Father – The Atlantic How indeed.
“If anyone ever asks you to explain the difference between Costco and Walmart now you have an answer.”
In the category of “Most uses of the word East in a single sentence”, The Atlanta Journal Constitution: The body was seen on the eastbound tracks of the East-West rail line, east of the East Lake station, MARTA assistant police … Continue reading
Considering that this woman is “fairly young”, lives with her parents, and already has six children what the fuck was she doing on fertility treatments? NYT: Octuplets’ Mom Has 6 Other Children
That means that if you could somehow gather every scrap of gold that man has ever mined into one place, you could only build about one-third of the Washington Monument. HowStuffWorks: All the gold in the world via: Kottke
According to the Freakonomics Blog the value of the Zimbabwe Dollar has fallen so low that it is cost-effective to use the $1000 note as a replacement for toilet paper.
The always great Big Picture has started their year-in-review series. Some really, really, great stuff .
Presented for your approval: the David Lee Roth soundboard The level of total fucking awesomeness exhibited here simply goes without saying.
Without a doubt.