School started, the stock market went in the shitter, I played music with my friend Tom and I’ve spent as much time reading, watching and listening to the news as I can in the last two weeeks

First, I found this awesome picture on wikipedia while I was doing some research.

A 500 lb bomb fell through that dome and exploded inside the building. I was researching geodesic domes when I found the picture in the article about monolithic domes.

I’ve been reading this ars technica forum thread about the ongoing “mortgage armageddon” and I’ve found it to be a really interesting read. I particularly enjoyed the following photo. It really tickled my black-humor funny bone.

And then in this thread about the 2008 us presidential election, someone posted this video which made me cry.

Here is the page on youtube where this video lives.

Luckily, I also found http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/ through that thread and I think it is very interesting indeed.

Moving on, there was also posted a link to http://www.moral-politics.com/ which is an interesting idea. It purports to be able to place your moral/political orientation within a matrix of the larger population.

There is my result. Turns out I’m a dirty social democrat. Suddenly I understand why I cant; even talk about politics with my family who are all *very* conservative.

Interestingly, here is the chart showing all of the respondents who live in the US.

And, for comparison, here is the chart for all world respondents.

So yeah. Here’s how the stock market went today.

Good times.

Here’s the chart for the last year.

Abe

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