- The South Vs. Obama – The Daily Beast – The votes against Obama’s stimulus package came from a southern confederacy of Republicans and conservative Democrats. Their message to America? Drop dead.
- Philadelphia Magazine: 1978 Called. It Wants Its Newspaper Back – Ross also adds that in January, Tierney took to patrolling the parking garage, watching to see what time employees were arriving to work and asking managers about those who were late. “That’s what I’m getting calls about now,” says Ross. “He’s walking around the parking garage. If he gets hit by a car, it’ll be his own fault.” Tierney’s ownership group, Philadelphia Media Holdings, stopped making interest payments to its creditors over the summer. Thirty-five further editorial layoffs were announced in December. No one knows what tomorrow will bring — except that some tomorrow could mark the end of Philadelphia’s newspapers.
- Cognitive Daily: Reading graphs: How we do it, and what it tells us about making better ones – How do you read such a graph? Is this the ideal way to depict this sort of information? If you wanted to know which part of the state was most populous, how would you go about figuring it out? Researchers have developed conflicting models to explain how it's done.
- Current photos of Leningrad photoshopped WW2 images. – Via Warren Ellis.
- Current photos of Leningrad photoshopped WW2 images. – Via Warren Ellis.
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