OzVet

This is fascinating.
Voting habits and amazon book buying habits.
Basically, voting patterns of the rich (the second graph) correspond remarkably well with the types of political books people are buying on Amazon. Fascinating.
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Casey Jane (the mare I’ve been riding and working with) and I have been playing with the flatbed trailer. Sometimes she’s slightly skeptical of going over or on top of things, and although I’ve never tried to trailer load her, I imagine she’s not super confident about it. 
She does love cookies, however. A cookie means [...]

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So Farley Katz, of the New Yorker, challenged Ryan North, of XKCD, to a cartoon-off On the following topics:
The Internet, as envisioned by the elderly.
String Theory.
1999.
Your favorite animal eating your favorite food.
Ryan North’s response to the 4th question is most excellent.
 
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I found myself excited yesterday that gas had dropped below $3.00/gallon. My first thought was wow!, cheap gas.
Here’s a link someone sent me recently:  http://www.google.com/search2001.html. In honor of their 10th birthday, Google has released it’s oldest index, from Jan 2001. Searching around a bit I found a couple of articles from 1999 where concerned citizens [...]

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