Out of the pan into the fire

confession time the last.
No not the mark Sanford kind. Sad as it is to say facebook has got in the way of blogging. After my facebook addiction started to ware off I turned my attention twitted and "twittering" as my friend called it. Well now I have unexpectedly ended up with an iPhone. Which I am posting this with. We will have to see how this goes.

Iran in Pictures!

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/06/irans_disputed_election.html

Wanna See Something Scarey?

http://www.slate.com/id/2216238/

This is an interactive map showing job losses and gains by county for the past two years. Play it as a slide show, it is a little depressing.

How about a little good news.

We now know where all the bees went

News

Either I have not been paying any attention or our US news coverage sucks. Maybe some of each. I know there is always protesting when world leaders come together but these images really tell the story.

Mascot Madness

Mascot Madness of the NCAA

Chernobyl

Amazing and creepy photos from Chernobyl.

Sad Economy

More photos, this time some shots of the state of our sad economy.

A few facts

This chart is a combination of the 5 most current polls regarding America's feelings regarding the President's and Congress.

(I am working with Google Docs so please excuse the fact that my labeling didn't work)

Results by Row

President Approval rating 64%
President Bringing Change 71%
President Being Bi-partisan 70%


Congressional Dems Approval 48%
Congressional Repubs Appr. 35%

Congressiona Repubs being Bi-partisan 33%.

Industry around the World

Another set of photos. Different industries and manufacturing processes for random products around the world.

The Blame Game

Time Magazines Interactive listing of the 25 most responsible for the Crisis

Taxes, Oil, Foreign Relations

Senator Dick Lugar R proposes a gas tax to address our Foreign Relations entanglements.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/30/AR2009013002728.html

Lights

The video at this post is a time lapsed video of long distance flight with the glow of the city light in the backround. It looks much more cool than I can describe.


http://www.flickr.com/photos/ettubrute/3116083285/

Back to the future?

Street Level Inauguration

A photojournalist take on Inauguration day simply walking the strees

Newspaper Headlines

An interesting site, newspapers from all over the world, updated daily.
Newseum.org

Are You a Survivor?

ObamaIconMe!

I just came across this website...it might have been around a while but its new to me. Pretty cool! :-)

http://obamiconme.pastemagazine.com/

Can't think of a good title yet.

Caddilac One

Thought this was kind of interesting:

Looksie, Looksie, where do Senators come from

Quick look into where Senators come from.

Year in photos

All I seem to post here is photos...

Here is part 1, 2 & 3 of The Big Picture's "year in photos".
Some pretty amazing, sad, impressive & terrible stuff happened this year...

Another set of Big Picture photos...this time from Gaza. I don't think we get enough media exposure as to what is really happening over there.

Pinhole Camera Exposure

An interesting article about a six month exposure with a pinhole camera:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3496139/Stunning-photographs-of-landmark-captured-over-six-month-period.html