June 2008
15 posts
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“Democratic areas are sopping up people with BA degrees; Republican areas are...”
– Bill Bishop, author of The Big Sort, as quoted in a Washington Post story on the political role reversal of the Virginias and the demographics of this shift across the nation.
Firefly Alley
Cycling the Washington and Old Dominion Trail at night in late June or July is like warping through a star field of fireflies. But remember: close your mouth and watch out for night joggers.
Albanian Custom Fades: Woman as Family Man →
“We all know the fate that awaits mothers of heterosexual sons. After straight...”
– Sarah Bird, disappointed that her son isn’t gay.
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Coal Plant in Rural Virginia to Power Northern...
The Washington Post is reporting on the controversy surrounding Dominion Virginia Power’s plans to build a large coal-fired plant in a mountainside over a defuct strip-mine facility in southwestern Virginia, near the Kentucky border:
The Dominion plant’s fuel would come largely from Appalachia, but most of its electricity would not stay in that area.
Instead, Dominion officials said much of the...
Download MyMaps to Google Earth →
Lets you download all the data (all pages) in a Google My Map as a KML.
Google Map Maker Getting Started Guide →
Not available/functioning en los Estados Unidos, but this seems like it might be cool. Looks kinda like it’s enabled for countries that don’t have well-established commercial cartographers at the moment.
“We’re not just making subtitles; we’re making better subtitles.”
– Han Xian, underground subtitler in Shanghai, explaining how not-for-profit ad hoc legally-dubious groups on the internet produce creative translations for pirated American television that explain cultural references to Chinese audiences, as reported by Morning Edition.
Interracial Marriage in Korea: Not Just War Brides... →
Anthony Kuhn for All Things Considered [NPR, 4-minute audio] reports on the de-homogenization (migrant miscegenation) of South Korea.
OpenLayers →
a JavaScript library for displaying map data in most modern web browsers, with no server-side dependencies.
