Rainbow Mosaics
September 17, 2010 –“I travel the world, and I’m happy to say that America is still the great melting pot – maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean.” – Philip Glass
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The Price Of Weed
September 15, 2010 –Fans of the bong – and anyone interested in black market economics – might enjoy the Price Of Weed, a crowd-sourced database of what people pay for marijuana throughout North America:
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Stuff White People Like
September 14, 2010 –Is Stuff White People Like really the stuff that white people like? OkCupid delivers the answer with its trademark panache, by scientifically mashing 500,000+ online dating profiles into lists of “interests” for each race and gender.
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Rubik’s Proved
September 12, 2010 –Scientists have recently proven that God’s Number is 20: any Rubik’s Cube can be unscrambled in twenty moves (or less). Read the nitty-gritty details on Cube20.org, and for more Rubik’s trivia, see home improvement site Fixr’s infographic.
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Going Parabolic
September 10, 2010 –Andrew Lewicki maps the parabola to skater-space, complete with metal pipe on the lips and stairs up to the platforms on top. The word on the street? That after legendary Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto rode this, he declared it “totally radical!”
Where The Antelope Play
September 8, 2010 –In the latest update to our “distance to McDonald’s” map, a lone restaurant has winked out of the wide-open spaces of northeastern California:
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Have We Been Spammed?
September 7, 2010 –Attention all entrepreneurs! Carpet-bomb the Internets with trivia and clip art, engage in a smidgen of social networking monkey business, and in just a few short months, you’ll be swimming in cash!
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Asteroids!
September 3, 2010 –Although interplanetary space is less frantic than it was in arcade classic Asteroids, scientists estimate that 25,000,000 football-field-sized rocks float around the solar system. Should one rendezvous with our big blue marble, we’d be in for a seriously bad day in the worst disaster movie kind of way.
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