Robert Reich clearly explains how private equity firms, like Romney's Bain Capital, work in eight easy steps.
This series of race and ethnicity maps shows the makeup of the major American cities based on the 2010 census. Each dot represents 25 people, red is White, blue is Black, green is Asian, orange is Hispanic, and yellow is Other. This one is New York City (click to embiggen).
The Lord of the Rings movies set depicting the shire of Hobbiton is now home to a lot of sheep.
Katy McCaffrey had her iPhone stolen by an employee during a Disney cruise. She has an app that automatically downloads any photos taken with her camera. She’s made a facebook page out of them, until she gets her phone back.
Joe Salter completed a triathlon in under two hours. He juggled tennis balls the entire time.
The Hindenburg, 75 years later. Here’s some video footage of the actual disaster. It doesn’t say here, but I read somewhere that the famous “Oh, the humanity!” report was dubbed in later and wasn’t the reporter as he was actually witnessing the event.
Lance has a nice review of The Avengers up.
Who would play the real life Woody and Buzz Lightyear? I’m going with Clint Eastwood (as Woody) and Bruce Willis (as Buzz).
Mittens promises to “...lead us out of this debt and spending inferno”. Except, like everything else conservative, it’s based on a lie.
How many of these hard-to-pronounce company names are you saying wrong? The only one I got right was Stella Artois.
See where you fall on this theist/agnostic/atheist venn diagram. I clearly fall in the green section (agnostic atheist). Since you can’t prove a negative, I don’t think anyone could honestly say they are in the brown section. And you’d have to be insanely delusional to claim to fall in the maroon. So purple and green are really your only choices. Click to make the venn diagram bigger.
White House dot gov has a very nice biography of each of the U.S. presidents. Start with G.W. (the competent one). If I erased everything I know about American history and rated the presidents solely by these biographies, I’d pick Teddy Roosevelt as the one who outshines them all.
Doug is bad at small talk.
Animal of the week: A snoring dormouse, although I think it's asthmatic.
37 47 11. When Romney took over Massachusetts the state was 37th in job creation. After his term it ranked 47th. After Patrick (D) took over it rose to 11th out of 50.
Twenty-four policies that Republicans supported before they were against them.
Giraffes only sleep for 1.9 hours a day. Brown bats sleep 19.9 hours. And there’s a whole bunch of data points here.
These animals are extremely disappointed in you.
