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How Big Is It?

Kirby — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:17:11 +0000

This is a great, inventive use of maps.

Pick a topic from a list including Historical Sites, Space, Depths, and Disasters, and the site generates a map centered on your location to show the size of it. (Type your city or postal code into the box to change the map underneath).

How big was the Gulf Oil Spill? How far did the mars rover really drive? How big is the Great Wall? How big was the Colossus of Rhodes?

BBC – Dimensions – Index.

Catharsis

admin — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:21:09 +0000

This is a fascinating article about anger.

It turns out that “letting it all out” or hitting a pillow or screaming is not as good for you as was once thought.

Those things actually sustain your anger. Sitting calmly reduces it.

Catharsis.

As a parent, this is very useful stuff.

Really support our troops

admin — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:09:20 +0000

Something I’ve been thinking about ever since I saw the truly biting commentary of a foot-long yellow magnetic ribbon that said “I support our troops more than you do.”

Support our troops? Not with an empty gesture

What’s In A Twinkie?

Kirby — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:59:20 +0000

A great photo set, with an image of each of the 37 ingredients in a Twinkie photographed individually.

Dwight Eschliman Photography

Lots of chemical-ly sounding names there…

Happy to Be Canadian

Kirby — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:51:06 +0000

Here’s a photo of a bill for an emergency appendix surgery in the U.S.

Total Amount Due: $76,574.85

This is how much it will cost us to have a ruptured appendix removed

In the ensuing forum discussion, it is revealed that the recipient was between jobs and there for not covered by insurance. She’s on the hook for all of it.