Australian Convict Warns About Abusing Women.
Chopper - Anti Violence to women Advertisement (via kingjdub)
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0.3 seconds during an electrical storm. Holy Shit.
Slow Motion Video of a Multiple Tower Upward Lightning Flash on 6/16/10 (via ztresearch)
West Virginia Full of Sad Tweeters
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I just checked out this article on the Complexity and Social Networks Blog: Mood, twitter, and the new shape of America and within it they had a great little video that shows how the mood (and volumne) of tweets changes over the course of time across the USA.
The color represents how happy people are (red=less and green=more). The size of the state (they get pretty distorted) shows how many tweets, relatively speaking, are coming from that state.
If you pay close attention you’ll see that West Virginia is always red; or always as sad as can be. That is a bit disappointing really, but, I guess, not all that surprising.
Here is the project homepage for more information on the video and the data behind i
Money Free Month
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Next month Lisa and I will be challenging ourselves to not spend any money on discretionary items. Nothing, $0. We'll still be able to buy food and pay our bills but anything that doesn't fall directly into those two budget categories will be completely forbidden. 31days of pure frugality. If you see one of us and we are thinking about buying something please, help us out and remind us about our Money Free Month pledge.
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These mesh together amazingly well. Cool that people can even think to do this stuff.