Archive for May, 2010
Map: USA’s Dumbest Drivers
In: Culture Interactive Maps
28 May 2010
Sins and Virtues
In: Culture
28 May 2010
How Laws are Made
In: Politics
28 May 2010
Abstract Art
26 May 2010
Tracking Indexes for the Global Economic Recovery (TIGER)
In: Finance Global Economy Interactive Maps Source: FT Updated regularly
26 May 2010Joint effort of the Brookings Institute and the Financial Times. Click on a country to open a PDF with detailed information. Or, you can look at the summary for all countries. Related Brookings post.
Economic Indicators Dashboard (May ‘10 update)
25 May 2010One of my favorite summaries of economic indicators. Click on any of the “historical details” to see what each indicator means and why it’s important.
A Tourist World
24 May 2010
Best Cities in the USA
In: Culture
24 May 201067 cities ranked on 24 indicators. I like that it autosorts, but it would be nice if you could highlight a country and see all of it’s rankings. Related article.
The Drug War
24 May 2010
FTSE 350: Executive Pay
24 May 2010
Are you Ready for the World Cup?
In: Sports
22 May 2010It starts June 12th 11th. First off, to get you psyched:
Interactive guide to pools and teams:
Calendar from the BBC (highlight your team and print):
A “scientific” prediction of the results, from UK Wired:
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- Martin: Manager asks geek to document process. The longer the geek takes to document, the longer the geek ke [...]
- Steve: Budgets aren't subject to the filibuster. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster_in_the_United_S [...]
- Nathan: Rogier, follow the link to NPR and you will read that education has been lumped in with "everything [...]
- mims: Lol, the lazy man. I'd say the efficient woman. Or man. ;) [...]
- lam: except, scott, when you consider that congress has to do somethings just to keep this country functi [...]