Freakonomics!

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Like the book Freakonomics? The New York Times has a blog on the book (here), with tons of interesting stuff.

Want to bet money on world events? The Freakonomics blog has an offshoot site: The Freakonomics Prediction Center, where you can bet on when the next US Political scandal will hit, who the 2008 NBA champion will be, and tons of other stuff. Zach Osborne, I feel like you would be good at this.

Anyone remember the show Freakazoid?

Cool Blog: Strange Maps

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While looking up info on the Inglehart-Welzel Cultural Map of the World, I came across the blog Strange Maps. For all you map-lovers, here are a couple maps that are on the blog:

1. Functional Geography, bottle-opener in the shape of Taiwan
2. Where Neil Armstrong walked on the moon
3. The geography (and naming possibility) of the lakes on Saturn's moon.
4. A Surrealist's map of the world
5. Map of temperance
6. And, my favorite map (pictured above) "Area codes in which Ludacris claims to have hoes"

Department of Good Ideas

What a great idea! 'Said the Gramophone,' a mp3 blog, started a contest for people to make videos for their favorite songs. It's great because (a) music videos usually suck and are usually of the artist themselves and (b) it's great for the artist to get a response from the fan, it makes it more of a relationship that way. From my limited knowledge of cool music, I only recognized Devendra Banhart's song from the finalists (here). But it's really beautiful and incredibly short and lovely (50 sec.) Here it is:


Devendra Banhart - Fireflys from ericp on Vimeo.