Check Your “Tax Receipt” To See Where Your Money Is Going: “
Finally you can see a break down of where all your tax dollars are going. Now if only I could edit this and put that money spent on defense to being spent on NASA.
What do you think about the disbursement of your tax dollars? [...]
I’ve stumbled across this great flash animation of the OstFront during WWII. It’s from the Russian perspective and gives an overwhelming amount of detail and interviews into this amazing series of battles.
POBEDITELI %u2014 Soldiers of the Great War
I try to keep my political opinions out of this blog as I think that science must be objective. However, living in NY State and knowing that the state Senate was going to vote on gay marriage, I can’t help but post this video that ended up in my RSS reader.
This women makes several [...]
With all this new work that I’ve been doing in Mathematics, I’ve started to enjoy various visualizations. Here is a really nice one showing the decline of the largest empires of old. I really like the way that the wars and independence of various countries.
Visualizing the decline of empires – Boing Boing
Here’s an interesting visualization called Follow the Oil Money. It shows you the relationships of the presidential candidates to oil money. Very nice.
ExpectMore.gov is a government site that tracks and displays whether or not federal programs are performing as expected. I think this is great, I’ve often said that I wouldn’t mind paying taxes if there was more transparency. These kinds of sites are in my opinion a step in the right direction.
Many have a love or hate relationship with the Ron Paul movement. His vocal supporters, and strict constitutional policy seem to excite some and turn others off. However, what a president like Ron Paul could accomplish would be questionable given the resistence he would probably get from Congress. Seems to not be [...]
Politimetrics is a project to use statistical analysis to predict the winner of the 2008 election. As fanciful as that sounds it’s actually quite interesting.
Check out this Interview With Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney On Technology Issues so far it’s the only one that I’ve seen where a candidate has talked about tech issues directly. This of course is of great interest to me. I’m in no way endorsing Romney, but I think it’s important to do all [...]
The fact that this administration has gone back and pardoned it itself for any war crimes in the past. They’re bailing out the risky lenders who are causing the sub prime crash due to their ridiculousness, they did manage to get rich though. Oh, and the phone companies are being given amnesty for [...]