Akkam’s Razor

• Island of Broken Dreams | Newgeography.com - Indeed, land use regulation throughout the New York suburbs downstate, in New Jersey and Connecticut has long since rationed land for development. As a result, once loose mortgage loan standards became the practice, house prices escalated. Throughout the New York metropolitan area, the Median Multiple – median house prices divided by median household incomes rose from 3.2 to 7.0, in the decade ending in 2007. In traditionally regulated markets – like Long Island in the past and still much of the country in the present – the Median Multiple has been 3.0 or less for decades.

• GOOD » GOOD Sheet: You Want to Help» - President Kennedy famously declared during his inauguration speech that we should ask ourselves what we can do for our country. National service takes many forms—from Americans deployed overseas to senior citizens teaching a new generation how to read. Now that the election is over, let’s continue the spirit of civic engagement. Find out what you can do for your country.

• The Washington Independent » This Is What the 2008 Electoral Map Would Look Like if the Election Were Decided by [Fill In the Blank] - A number of sites have featured a hypothetical electoral map entitled “This Is What the 2008 Electoral Map Would Look Like if the Election Were Decided by 18-29 Year Olds.” Needless to say, it’s a very blue map.

  I spent the weekend poring over the CNN exit polls from last Tuesday’s election and converting the state-by-state data for a number of demographics into my own hypothetical electoral maps.

  The result is a set of maps that visualize the outcome of an election decided exclusively by the following age groups, genders, income groups, political affiliations, etc.

• Bush’s Constitution-Lite Zone - The U.S. Government has long maintained a policy that they have the right to stop and search anyone at the border. The Department of Homeland Security is now taking the position that “the border” is the 100-mile wide strip that wraps around the “external boundary” of the United States. The ACLU took all the recent census maps and came to a rather surprising conclusion. [2/3rd of America lives in this zone].
• Voter Registration Flashpoints - Things and places.

Popularity: 7% [?]

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• Car Coloring Books - Top Speed -
• Voting America: United States Politics, 1840-2008 -

Popularity: 5% [?]

• Economic Stimulus Bill Text Tracker - GovTrack.us - This is a special GovTrack feature! We've gathered a few drafts of what's currently the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, H.R. 3997, the $700 billion "bail-out" bill, and are highlighting below the changes made from one draft to the next. We hope this makes it easier to understand what's happening right now in Congress.

• Primal Health: Eye-to-Eye Contact -
• Elections ‘08 Map Gallery -
• Drag and Drop Game Development with Gendai (video) - Mashable - The ultimate goal is to establish a kind of “YouTube for Games” where members can upload and share their new creations much like YouTube members do with video. However, Gendai wants to help its developers make a little money in the process by allowing them to monetize their games online and on the Apple AppStore for the IPhone.
• Overthinking It - Overthinking It subjects the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve.