Those Democrats, they are all spend, spend, spend

An interesting graph: US public debt as per cent of GDP. And more. There a bit more to this than simple Presidential comparisons. To get a better picture, you would also have to look at the make up of Congress, but I believe you would probably find that the Dems would do far better there too, given their domination of Congress through all those years of declining debt and the predominantly Republican Congresses 1994-2006, just when that line starts rising.

Oil map

One of the more important maps in our world.

Batty

An entire school carved out of a cave.

Looking up

I`d never heard of mammatus clouds before but they are very very weird.

The American Gulag II

Water boarding is torture... Period.

And it doesn`t work.

I wrote about this before here.

Images

The circle is the border of a national park in New Zealand seen from space. And other great photos.

Eddie Izzard and Lego mashed up

British movies vs. US movies


The British Empire


Church of England: Cake or Death?


And unmashed (on bilingualism):

Well she is definitely going clockwise for me...

How about you?

PS. Is that a joke? I have looked at it hard and cannot get it to go any other way than clockwise.
PPS. But then I go back to it and she is definitely going anti-clockwise. I am fairly convinced this has got nothing to do with what it says in the article.

Anarchism by Noam Chomsky

Or you could have been doing something more useful instead, like playing a free rice game from lots of corporate types.

It's international "Can't understand an effing word of it" day

Spanish writer Fernando Arrabal shows how those tedious late night discussion programmes should be done:



And a no reflection prank:

May the best brain hemisphere win!

Twinoo

Mapping

The History of Religion



History of the Middle East



And this time map of World War I is pretty neat too. As is this migration map.

Bamburgh