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Thomas A Clark – The Hidden Place II
an alternative map of scotland with place names replaced with their original meanings
via peter foolen
Favorite: the glen of terror. I suspect the Scot side of my family may be from around there.
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Chinese villagers forced to change untypable name -
The predicament of the villagers formerly known as Shan make Prince’s name-change seem like a piece of cake.
How Patient Are Homeowners? : Planet Money : NPR -
It’s a reminder of how sticky home prices are: People who are selling can often afford to be patient, waiting through a soft market to hold out for a higher price.
But there’s a limit.
There’s a year’s worth of existing homes on the market — about twice as much as normal. That’s a lot of homeowners biding their time. The oversupply suggests that, at some point, prices will start falling again.
Don’t make old-timey Omar kill your ass.
Man, clothes ain’t got no owners. Only wearers.
That boy was beautiful…
What a great thing to have waiting for me when I resumed the internet this morning.
Case-Shiller: Tax Credit Out with a Whimper in Seattle • Seattle Bubble
Fifteen of thirty Case-Shiller-tracked cities are now in positive YOY territory: Phoenix, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Denver, Washington DC, Miami, Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, Minneapolis, New York, Cleveland, Portland, and Dallas. Yes, even Detroit is outperforming Seattle YOY. Ouch.
Jon Stewart: To me, the hallmark of civilization, and I believe this on its core foundational level, is the every-other-car merge at tunnels…
Drew Barrymore: Well, they don’t let you anymore, they have cones that say, like, don’t you dare.
Stewart: No, no, when you get up to that, and it’s like four cars, and it goes down to one. And everybody suddenly, no matter what, Jew, Muslim, gay, straight, black, white, it doesn’t matter, everybody just goes, ‘I’m next,’ ‘No, you’re next,’ ‘Please,’ and it’s like the zipper merge, and it really says, to me, this is why we don’t drink the same water we shit in anymore, because we are a civilized society. That’s my theory.
… Stewart: Who the hell knows.
Barrymore: I love you.
Via infrastructist, How We Drive and others, too, it seems.
“If all the women you’re asking are all busy, it’s not necessarily a sign that all possible excellent candidates are busy; it could just be a sign that you’re looking in the same place as everyone else.” — Too Few Women in Tech? There’s more than you think. | Geek Feminism Blog
Good stuff.
Dahlia Lithwick says yes.
Social scientists contend that the difference is more than just cosmetic. They cite a 2006 study by the Wellesley Centers for Women that found three to be the magic number when it came to the impact of women on corporate boards: after the third woman is seated, boards reach a tipping point at which the group as a whole begins to function differently. According to Sumru Erkut, one of the authors of that study, the small group as a whole becomes more collaborative, and more open to different perspectives. In no small part, she writes, that’s because once a critical mass of three women is achieved on a board, it’s more likely that all the women will be heard.
Rock on, smart ladies at the WCW.
Photo credit: Nikolas Giakoumidis / AP
A mink runs past dead animals on a road in Hiliodendro, near the northern Greek city of Kastoria, on Monday, Aug. 30. 2010. More than 50,000 mink were set loose in the area on Friday and Saturday, after raids by suspected animal rights activists on two fur farms. Greece’s The National Fur Breeders’ Association said most of the released animals are likely to die, adding that the cost to the farm owners could pass 1 million Euros ($1.27 million) despite an effort to recover the animals.
In Photoblog - Free mink, John Brecher says: “I wonder what the average difference in quality of life is for the mink in this situation.”
YCharts:: Wells Fargo: The Thrill of Being Boring -
Notice the trend [in JPMorgan’s data]? That’s right, there is no trend – except up-and-down, up-and-down. It’s a perfect picture of the volatility that comes with a big trading and investment banking operation, which JPMorgan Chase certainly has. In this case, it’s relatively successful, but highly unpredictable.
[embedded JPMorgan and Wells Fargo earnings-per-share chart]
Now look at the trend here, and try to ignore the last 11 data points (the financial crisis and its aftermath), for Wells Fargo. Through the third quarter of 2007, it’s an almost uninterrupted line, rising ever-so-slightly each period. It’s almost boring. And that’s the point.
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James would be the kid in Katy’s avatar. He and his older brother Ben are my heroes.