I’m running late this morning, so I’m just going to toss out a few links and that’s it. More over the weekend perhaps.
- I may have a new source for good quotations: Wikiquote.
- Here’s a suggestion on how to weed out the Taliban. I’ve got my six-pack and pork chops ready.
- State Machine, by Ben Cerveny and Max Carlson, is a very clever flash-based dynamic visualization of the relationship of the members of the United States senate to different sources of campaign funding.
Via: We Make Money, Not ArtThe system extracts information from opensecrets, a database which lists the donations to political campaigns in the USA. The North American political scene in this piece is uncovered as a genuine dance of interests.
- Not exactly news: Many prefer to stay home to watch movies, think movies are getting worse. Fewer than ¼ of people surveyed preferred watching movies in the theater. But there’s one movie I’ll probably go out to watch when it’s released. [strib]