Playing The Probabilities
October 26, 2011 –Daddy needs a new pair of shoes. So, it’s off to Vegas… to win, baby! There, I’ll saunter up to a “twenty one” table, exchange a few hundred for chips, and pit my blackjack fu against the casino.
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My God, It’s Full Of Blocks
October 3, 2011 –Here’s a “behind the scenes” image that might strike you as interesting, eye candy, or perhaps both, depending upon your particular inclination and intimate knowledge of online map tiles:
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British Isles And Golden Arches
September 14, 2011 –My inbox hums with feedback: warm fuzzies, media inquiries, cold pricklies, and scads of similar requests from across the pond that read something like this:
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Storing Your Value
July 26, 2011 –Suppose that you snapped. It might have been the blood-red 401k statement that arrived in yesterday’s mail. Or that last year, you paid your broker $10,000 to lose $100,000. Or, perhaps, that while everyone else, by government largesse, refinanced houses, replaced clunkers, and recouped bad investments, you received nothing!
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It Flows Downhill
May 24, 2011 –The nondescript lowlands surrounding the Old River Control Structure – the complex of levees, dams, floodgates, and spillways designed to prevent the great Mississippi River from changing course into the Atchafalaya – belie a fascinating history of man subjugating nature and nature’s inevitable payback.
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Growth Rings, Part Two
April 11, 2011 –By popular demand, we’ve added more maps to the Growth Rings collection, including Atlanta, Charlotte, Pittsburgh, and the rest of the largest 40-or-so U.S. metros:
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Growth Rings
April 6, 2011 –Whether by birth, storm, or interest-only loan, our nation’s population is perpetually shifting – from neighborhood to neighborhood and state to state – and now, Census data in hand, we present the past decade’s growth and decline as a series of high-resolution maps:
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Shifting Burdens
March 15, 2011 –The tax man cometh, and to illustrate the inequities of his cleft-hoofed embrace, we’ve charted the shift in U.S. income taxes from rich to poor over the past century:
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