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Month: June 2011
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Places to Avoid on the Weekend
Tourists. Don’t live with them, can’t live without them? Whatever the case, Eric Fischer’s Locals and Tourists map collection uses Flickr picture locations to show where you should or shouldn’t go, depending on your disposition, in 50 cities around the world. Blue is for the peaceful locals and red for the invading tourists hordes…
Find these maps and much more at here.
[via Dohop Travel Blog]
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Schizophrenia Kit: China
What to feel a lot of different ways about China in the span of a few minutes?
Simply start with any Business Insider post on China and then go to the next one they suggest at the end…
- 18 Facts About China That Will Blow Your Mind
- 10 US States That Will Get Murdered If China Slow Its Imports
- Think Again On China: It’s Really A Debt-Burdened Builder Of Bridges To Nowhere
- Here Are The 10 Chinese Brands Set To Take Over US Households by 2020
- Stephen Roach: 10 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Bet Against China
- How One Of The Worst Stock Markets In The World Will Raise The Most IPO Money
- IT BEGINS: China To Do 2-3 Trillion Yuan Bailout of Indebted Local Governments
Out of all that, what can’t ACM get out of its head? Five words from the 17th fact about China that will blow your mind:
“mobile execution vans for efficiency”
…Â What the hell is the rush?!
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Search for Restuarants: within 380 Million Light Years
Turns out you really haven’t been anywhere. Below is an infrared view of your local universe of galaxies and dark matter out to 380 million light years. … Yeah, that isn’t even everything. The observable universe was thought to go 14 billion light years out (equaling the age of the universe), is now considered to go 46 billion (age + 32 billion light years of universal expansion) and one estimate of what we can’t see puts the universe’s total diameter at 150 billion…
Now consider how much you are paying for your apartment. Square feet? Let’s get off this rock!
[Image from Center for Astrophysics via New Scientist via Hacker News]