Additives, maps and books

Additives in our food.

Undercover Agents Infiltrated Tar Sands Resistance Camp to Break up Planned Protest  TransCanada and Department of Homeland Security keep close eye on activists, FOIA documents reveal and what fracking is doing to Texas.

Being tolerant in gaming is hard.

The Onion is real news, right?

How to prevent rape.

Maps that can change your perception of the world.

Crimes against humanity.

And, sorry Australia, for shooting one of your baseball athletes.  We have these gun laws you see....

Finally... recommended books published after 2000.

The world according to ...

San Francisco.

McCain/Palin.

Jesusland. (Better pic here)

Monsanto.

The Moon.

Cool views of the world according to subjects.

Maps of wars

Cool map of the rise and fall of empires over the centuries. Rather tough to be Baghdad or Jerusalem....

Now this is how geography should be taught!

Totally cool map of the world:



And how Australians see the world.

A complete waste of time

But strangely satisfying....

Build a city... incompetently. Tower Bloxx game! From this site (don't look! don't look!)

And from hipparchia at Over the Cliff, Onto the Rocks, the world map game.

Some ... interesting music ... to play by:

Excuse me, dear, but why did you stay home from work

And who the hell is that parked in our driveway?

This morning Google gave their 2D maps an incredible realworld addition. Its a street-view, that in certain cities, will let you get a street side view of the area you are currently in. This is not just a static, A9-style image. It will also let you move along the street in a smooth manner and even more amazing it will let you change your angle and continue moving that way. This will be formally launched at Where 2.0 later today.

Update 6/7: Via Tengrain , Mark Morford of SFGate has an ... overview.