Category Archive

The following is a list of all entries from the asides category.

Information is Beautiful

Information is Beautiful may very well be my new favorite blog.

How American Health Care Killed My Father

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.

and the winner is…

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 Chief Joseph Dorsey said Thursday night.

the obvious question…

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

All the gold in the world

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

What would you do with $1000?

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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 Big Picture: 2008 in photographs

The always great Big Picture has started their year-in-review series. Some really, really, great stuff .

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Presented for your approval: the David Lee Roth soundboard

The level of total fucking awesomeness exhibited here simply goes without saying.