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Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:19:00 GMT

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Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:31:00 GMT

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Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:04:00 GMT

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Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:00:00 GMT

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Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:51:00 GMT

I drew this cartoon this morning, while thinking about a conversation I had a couple of years ago:

I was on the phone to an old friend of mine, a guy in his late forties, who was born and bred in Michigan, and is living there now. He was telling me about his uncle, who, about four decades ago, got his highschool sweetheart pregnant. So instead of going off to college, he found himself with a new wife, a child on the way, and an assembly-line job at General Motors. But even though this situation clipped his wings considerably, he still ended up having a nice life in the end, with a home, a big yard, two cars, a steady paycheck, weekends fishing or hunting deer, and vacations in Hawaii every year or so. “The days where a blue collar guy like my uncle could have a nice life without doing much,” my friend said, “those days are gone. Gone forever.”

And in the back of my mind, I’m thinking the same is starting to happen to white collar guys more and more, as well. But it’s not quite out in the open yet. Society’s not quite ready to have that conversation.

I also heard a statistic a couple of weeks ago– I don’t have the link, sorry– that there are sixty million children in China currently taking piano lessons. Sixty. Million.

We live in interesting times…

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Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:26:00 GMT

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Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:03:00 GMT

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MagicMouse vs OpenOfficeMouse

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:45:00 GMT

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Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:06:00 GMT

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Painting with Flickr

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:18:00 GMT

Cartogrammar has an interesting post describing using photographs tied to locations to interpolate average colours in a map. By positioning the pictures in space and analyzing them for colour distribution, then taking a function of the colours of pictures in...