Links tagged with “usa”
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Historical Blogging
Pretty fantastic. Students from The Anderson School in New York created blogs, IM chats and blog comments for American Civil War-era characters. Have a read.
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Legally required paid annual leave around the world, in days (05wwln.400.690.jpg)
Although some US states do have legal minimums apparently (via Haddock)
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Government Beyond Obama? - The New York Review of Books
A review of ‘The Case for Big Government’ from March 2009, good at putting levels of US federal government spending in a historical perspective.
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New York Review of Ideas
Looks like rather a nice new online journal thing, marred only by having its articles split over several pages. Maddening. (via Kottke)
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Schneier on Security: The Future of Ephemeral Conversation
“The younger generation chats digitally, and the older generation treats those chats as written correspondence. … until we have a Presidential election where both candidates have a complete history on social networking sites from before they were teenagers — we aren’t fully an information age society.” (via Oblinks)
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Income Gap and Marginal Tax Rate 1917-2006 at Visualizing Economics
Ouch. Difference in income for rich and poor in the US over the past century, compared to the tax rate.
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Times Higher Education - All the privileged must have prizes
About teaching at Harvard and the sense of entitlement the kids there have. (via Kottke)
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The American Scholar - The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - By William Deresiewicz
Great measured rant about what Ivy League educated kids are missing out on. (via Kottke)
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“You Don’t Understand Our Audience” by John Hockenberry
“…a series of lessons I learned about how television news had lost its most basic journalistic instincts in its search for the audience-driven sweet spot, the ‘emotional center’ of the American people.” (via Oblinks)
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Running the Numbers - An American Self-Portrait
Images showing the number of things used by Americans every day/week/month/etc. Amazing, scary, etc. (via Haddock)
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World Geography Quizzes - Hundreds of Map Games
Loads of very good educational map games for dumbos like me. (via Haddock)
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Cool Tool: Adventure Cycling
The woman cycling across the USA on the Saturday Guardian’s Travel section back page has got me intrigued…
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The New York Review of Books: Jimmy Carter & the Culture of Death
Lots of bits in this review of Carter’s book ‘Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis’ that I circled.
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Mapping religion in America (regionsofmind.blog-city.com)
Fascinating and attractive maps showing the percentage of residents of all US counties that belong to different religions. (via Plasticbag)
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Panoramic photograph of suburban sprawl near San Ramon, California | Matt Jalbert
Unreal-looking. Would be great to see this animated over a decade or two. (via Kottke again. He has such good links.)
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Flight Patterns
Gorgeous animations of flights over the US. Better than it sounds. (via Kottke)
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Google Maps - Salton City, California
The road layout of an American town founded in the 1950s, which failed to develop. (via Google Sightseeing)