I found this article from the Chicago Sun Times pretty interesting (thank you metadex).

Schulte found this flickr picture and we confirmed that it wasn’t doctored.

The AP put out a picture of a black guy with the caption “A young man walks through chest deep flood water after looting a grocery store…” (emphasis mine)

The AFP put out a nearly identical picture but with a white guy and a woman of some other descent with the caption ” Two residents wade through chest-deep water after finding bread and soda from a local grocery store…” (emphasis mine)

Looks a little ridiculous to me.

There are some pretty interesting hurricane pictures on Flickr. Check out:

Fairhope Pier
An ironic shot of “Water Street”
A computer-generated tribute
A taxi on an island
A collection of photos from someone born in the area

Forbes put out their 2005 list of best cities for single people. Denver wins and Boston came in second. The methodology is kind of interesting. I always wondered how you quantify “coolness.”

This was big on the blogs a few days ago, but anyhow BeenMapped.com seems pretty neat. Basically it lets people mark of interesting things they’ve found on Google Maps so you can browse them.

For example, someone noticed that the Google Map near Boston captured two flying planes and thier shadows on the ocean. Note, you may have to pan the image down and to the right to see the second plane.

Do a search for “how many pints in a gallon“.

This whole idea is pretty hilarious (and awesome). Schedule a time traveler convention, publicize it well, and hope people from the future show up.

Can’t the time travelers just hear about it from the attendees, and travel back in time to attend?

Yes, they can! In fact, we think this will happen, and the small number of adventurous time travelers who do attend will go back to their “home times” and tell all their friends to come, causing the convention to become a Woodstock-like event that defines humanity forever.

Unfortunately, we of the present (2005) don’t have time travel, and so we only have one chance at observing the convention. If the time travelers don’t leave us their secrets, we won’t be able to go back in time and see our convention in all its glory unless it is publicized in advance.

This blog is pretty interesting. They post anonymous postcards from people around the world/country. Some of them are really sad. Others are pretty funny. I thought the parking ticket one was great.

Sweet.

This is a very interesting article on why the dollar is weak, and why regular citizens mostly haven’t noticed.