Category: Interesting

Pretty much everybody is.

And speaking of racists, did you know that Real Con Nut is an anagram for Ann Coulter? Links via Kottke

I almost wished I lived in Portland so I could play with Google Maps in Portland and actually use it. They have the obvious driving directions that everybody else has, but they also have Google Transit Trip Planner (Eugene has this now, too, as of a couple weeks ago), live traffic conditions, and now they have the controversial Street View. Here’s the view at Joseph Wood Hill Park (just dropped the little street view dude in a random place).

Any Portlanders find anything fun on there? I don’t live up there so I don’t know where to look.

Here’s the science.

Psychologist Geoffrey Miller and colleagues tapped the talent at local gentlemen’s clubs and counted tips made on lap dances. Dancers made about $70 an hour during their peak period of fertility, versus about $35 while menstruating and $50 in between.

Interesting video showing how Wal-Marts spread across the country like an ugly disease (companion WSJ story). Links via BB.

They’re actually making them dumber.

There are 1286 folks in the line of succession to the British Throne.

This is just one of wordiest Wikipedia entries I’ve seen which, needless to say, puts it on this list of eight needlessly long Wikipedia entries.

The oceans are vast, but they are still full of ships and buoys. Just look at this live tracking map of commercial ship and buoy locations and you’ll see how busy things are.

My guess is they’re trying to sell sex, but you be the judge.