100? 500? 1,000? The correct answer is much higher: more than 22 fatal shootings per day in the first 98 days since the horrific elementary school massacre. Huffpo has an interactive chart: (Please don't just look at the graphic. Click on the link and then on "next.") Astounding....

29 March, 2013

Warm-up: England vs. USA. our friend David appears to have scored a ticket. [Update]One Contrarian reader doesn't like the horns: Dear Sepp Blatter, Day 2 and I am happy to say that the sound level from the mics catching those damned horns has been dialed down a little by the broadcasters. It is the World Cup not the South Africa Cup. I want to hear supporters from around the world singing, chanting, dancing, booing, hissing, whistleing, banging drums (not continuously), lauging, moaning, oohing and aahing. Stuff your 'cultural' BS as the reason for inflicting a steady droning noise on billions of viewers around...

12 June, 2010

A mysteriously anonymous website, Herald Daily (or at least weekly), has published this intriguing graphic contrasting the population density and land mass of the Earth's 19 most capacious nations. I've included only a stub of the original, very large graphic here. Click on the image to see the whole thing. Hat tip: Flowingdata.com....

15 November, 2009