Interesting article that analyizes the spread of the priting press in Europe and how it affected the growth of cities that had one. http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/6092

Below is a pretty awesome graphic that is derived from research done research done by USC alum (FIGHT ON) Martin Hilbert and Priscila Lopez.  The work is titled, “The World’s Technological Capacity to Store, Communicate, and Compute Information."   One of the things I found most interesting is that in 1986 41% of the computing power was pocket calculators.

I was stumbling around the Internet and found some text book disclaimers for people who hate God.  Enjoy your disclaimers....and hell. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="740" caption="http://www.anotherdamnblog.com/uploads/2009/Stimulus/GD"][/caption] Originally found at:  (http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/textbookdisclaimers/)

My father-in-law and I recently had an email exchange that I enjoyed and thought I would share.  The email string started by Thomas forwarding me an email with several cartoons mocking the Obama and the current political situation.  Below is my first reply that got things rolling.  As always, feel free to comment. From: ep To: Thoma...