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Visualizing Torture through Legos

5.May.2009

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Legofesto is a self-described “political junkie news hound,” who, according to Wired, is “fed up with news outlets refusing to publish images depicting torture due to their graphic nature.” To combat this “irresponsible censorship,” he started making Lego depictions based on news stories and first-hand accounts of torture. Legofesto’s posts include waterboarding, the death of Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protest, and Guantanamo Bay

Republican Decline

3.May.2009

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Pollster.com has produced a chart of party self-identification with six national polls since September 1.

Nate Silver has commentary, as well as an earlier post showing the same general trend.

Kristen Soltis also presents data of young voters’ (18-29) party self-identification based on exit polls from presidential elections in 1972 to 2008. Contrary to public opinion, party identification among young voters appears to follow general trends (they’re not, say, overwhelmingly Democratic, contrary to popular opinion). There does appear to be a 5-point swing in the past two elections, though, with the vanishing of young republicans.

Divided States

2.May.2009

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Russian professor Igor Panarin has been predicting the end of the U.S. in 2010 for the last decade. He claims that mass immigration, economic decline and moral degradation will lead to civil war, the collapse of the dollar, and the breakup of the U.S. into six regional states that will join or be controlled by foreign powers.

Subways! (NES style)

1.May.2009

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GOOD highlights the top scores of some world subway systems.

 

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