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Catholics of the world - Unite!

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The Year of Dryer Lint

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Beats the hell out of Living Dangerously, I guess. Seriously though, via  The Tubes of You , Rick Valentin and Rose Marshack talk about their artwork "A Year of Dryer Lint: Normal Family of Four", which displays a year's worth of their family's dryer lint needle felted onto a 26-foot canvas banner.  Because, "DNA Analysis".  Also,  why not?

What if Descartes watched TV?

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via SMBC

Exploring selfies!

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For fun and profit? Well, definitely for fun! SelfieCity  has put together quite the remarkable study of Selfies, using "a mix of theoretical, artistic, and quantitive" methodologies. Its actually quite nifty ( go check it out! ) but for my money, the best part is the " Exploratory ", where you can muck around with the selfies to your heart's content, filtering them based on Pose , Features , Mood , and Demographics . Seriously cool - go check it out!!! Mind you, this all assumes that you don't find the whole concept sublimely ridiculous :-)

Resourceful Bunnies!

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via Poorly Drawn Lines

Atlas Shrugged - in one simple chart

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via Simon Hinrichsen , who distilled the entirety of Atlas Shrugged  into this one comprehensive chart

Skimpy armor - and women in comics

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via nebezial a long time cooking inside joke between my wife and me of the immense protective power of a women's uterus! in reference  to the general design approach in female gear that leaves exposed midriff region

What if it was you? (The Oppressed Majority)

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" On what seems to be just another ordinary day, a man is exposed to sexism and sexual violence in a society ruled by women... " /via  +Benoit Chesneau  

Is *that* what the NYC subway actually looks like?

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What happens when you correct for the actual landscape.  ( SPUI version above , Ben Schmidt version below )

The Ultimate "Fix-It-Yourself" Guide!

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Because...Engineering! also

If J.R.R. Tolkein worked in Advertising

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From Valerio Amaro , who loves advertising and Tolkein

Yup, the squirrel just tried to hide a nut *here*. Go figure...

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I love the expression on the dog's face

You...Shall...Not... Fight?

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Police dogs breaking up a cat-fight. Seriously.

What beer costs in your country

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In minimum wage  terms - via Quartz This is actually an awesome accompaniment to the Big Mac Index

Whats your country's favorite booze?

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Now, via EuroMonitor , you know the answer Mind you, they only looked at the major liquors, viz., Brandy, Gin, Rum, Tequila, Vodka, and  Whiskey . Nothing really surprising there, except, perhaps The US prefers Vodka to anything else Saudi Arabia likes Whiskey (!) Brandy in China?

The winter olympics - where "Hot" is "Cool"

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The number of events in the "standard" categories (skiing, skating, etc.) has been growing steadily, but the "Hot" events (read: "Things Young People Will Find Cool") has been exploding. Heres The Economist

When disguises go badly wrong

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via WuMo

Do you know where it is snowing? Now you can see in real-time!

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The answer - via FreshyMap  (and no, the answer is not just "Chicago!") Oh its a winter-wonderland indeed...

Line / Square / Cube / Tesseract

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and more!

Seconds before all existence ended

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via WuMo

New York, India

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Hunana Doddi , a small village in the Mandya  district near Bangalore From The Hindu A day after the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, U.S., some youngsters held a condolence meeting in the village. Later, they renamed the village as ā€˜New Yorkā€™, according to the residents. Mind you, its not a bed of roses over there The village, which has nearly 1,000 residents, however, lacks infrastructure. Roads, drinking water, toilets, power supply, streetlights, drainage system, anganwadi centre and a community hall are among the demands of the residents.

Mexican-origin and the USA - a (somewhat depressing) #Visualization

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From The Economist , On February 2nd 1848 [...] An area covering most of present-day Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah, plus parts of several other states, was handed over to  gringolandia . The rebellious state of Tejas, which had declared its independence from Mexico in 1836, was recognised as American soil too. But a century and a half later, communities have proved more durable than borders. The counties with the highest concentration of Mexicans (as defined by ethnicity, rather than citizenship) overlap closely with the area that belonged to Mexico before the great gringo land-grab of 1848. Some are recent arrivals; others trace their roots to long before the map was redrawn. They didnā€™t jump the borderā€”it jumped them. For a history of the Mexican (as part of the wider Hispanic) experience in America, I can't recommend Felipe FernĆ”ndez-Armesto's book Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States  highly enough. He is a Spanish historian at Th...

Ski-Lift Accidents - a #Visualization

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via IllicitSnowboarding  - a peek at ski-lift accidents above. Mind you, when you look at the full numbers, it really isn't bad at all, not unlike flying... After spending the length of time I just have concentrating on lift accidents you start to get a skewed view of the dangers. To give all these events some context hereā€™s some stats from the US in the average year: 350,000,000 - Ski lift rides 12,000,000 - Skiers/snowboarders 38 - Skiing/snowboarding fatalities 0.33 - Ski lift fatalities Iā€™ll take those odds.

Magritte on Snowboarding

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via IllicitSnowboarding