How does a bill become a law? A lovely infographic from Mike Wirth Art is a swell way to learn the answer… but nothing beats the original (YouTube).
- Make your hidden self a little bit cooler with better Facebook default profile images.
- “These are their stories.” RIP L&O.
- “You know the best way to get the public to respect your brand? Have a respectable brand.” — from an interview with Leroy Stick, the man behind @bpglobalpr
- On June 5, 1910 there were only nine mothers of U.S. Senators still alive.
- Book owners have smarter kids.
- Are you an Asker or a Guesser? (I honestly don’t know which one I am.)
- This is the sort of stuff I love: Battleship Island & Other Ruined Urban High-Density Sites. I need the History or Discovery Channel to do a special on this!
- Derek thinks he’s finally figured out why everything sucks. And it’s actually kind of awesome.
- @sbnation presents an explanation of the recent and confusing NCAA conference realignments.
Posts tagged “government”
Elmo is the only non-human or puppet ever to testify before the U.S. Congress. At the request and with the assistance of Rep. Duke Cunningham, he testified before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education in April 2002, urging support for increased funding in music education.
Federal Student Loan Repayment Change
In which my payment changes
AIG Has $182 Billion of Your Money
Looking for outrage
McCain? Obama? Who Cares?
Lifehacker has a great list of tips to help maximize your influence in the election. The most important one is the last one, and it’s the one I’ve been trying to explain to people for months. McCain is not going to do anything about speeding on my street and Obama is not going to cut
Palin v. Biden
I simply cannot have been the only one who watched the vice-presidential debate tonight and thought that Palin’s answers were eerily similar to this famous speech. I mean, really? Really? Nucular? Poliferation? Infastructure? Here’s a random quote I grabbed from the transcript: John McCain, in referring to the fundamental of our economy being strong, he
American Idiot
The truth hurts
This Makes No Sense
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
Natural American Spirit Cigarettes
In addition to one of the standard Surgeon General’s Warnings, packs of Natural American Spirit cigarettes are labeled: Made with 100% additive-free, whole leaf, natural tobacco. No reconstituted sheet tobacco. No processed stems. Up to 25% more tobacco than other king size cigarettes. All of that would, in some convoluted way, probably lead a smoker
Everyone Hates the War
Retired Gen. George Washington Criticizes Bush’s Handling Of Iraq War (via BrainLog)