didn't the bill of his baseball cap get the gold?

Last year the TSA intercepted a record number of guns from carry-on bags. Wapo says 2,212, an average of six per day, with 83% of them loaded. I haven't heard of any of them being terrorist tied, though, and the numbers don't sound so bad when you consider they're frisking an average of1.8 MILLION people every day.

"I'll just disable the guard and reach into this machine that spins heavy metal at 2000 rpm so I can make the process go ... arrrrrgggghhh ..."

This is my Monday morning, every Monday. And Tuesday through Friday. I've gotta say, hope reigns eternal - everyone out there thinks he/she can shave a few seconds off of ... what? ... and eventually ends up in my clinic getting xrayed and stitched up, or treated for that third-degree burn from the plasma torch that (oops!) hit the ground and damn-the-switch-turned-on ...

I keep trying to put myself out of business (strange, I know), but these folks keep me in business.

There's a reason it's called an accident.

Some of those are more preventable than others though.

And some are called, 'hold my beer and watch this".

Then on very rare occasions...

However, all is not lost. There are federal surplus (recycling) centers all around the country...

They recycle, others in the same business fence. http://cellar.org/2015/shades.gif

Remember that video showing perceptions of wealth inequality vs. the reality of wealth inequality from a couple of years ago? Of course the data is outdated, the wealthiest one percent no longer own 40% of the world's wealth; it trickled down to all the rest of us. (ha ha! Not.) It's higher but I'm not sure I have the stomach to find out. Well the original final graph needed ten extra columns for the 1% to fit on the graph. Out of curiosity I wanted to see what the graph would look like if the 1% had only the single column. I did a little paste up and here it is. Phone viewers keep moving. Or scrolling...

They're using up all of my green ink

that makes me sick to my stomach

That's a shame BigV, this may help... by making you puke.

Forbes

The David Rumsey Map Collection is a cartography web site that has an on-line searchable database.
An article in Slate lead me to a section of 1880 maps communicable diseases, etc.

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This next map shows the number of deaths in 1898 due to measles per 100 deaths from known causes,
with the following comment:

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I think that should be 1,000.

Yes, xoB, you're right (again).

My mind was stuck on this 1880 map of measles, which
was the ratio of deaths due to measles among known causes.

That's a great collection of maps. I noticed this map, dated 1926, describing the pilgrims arrival in the New World.

http://cellar.org/2015/capetoon1.jpg

Some of the things they found were mysterious, remorseless savages, monstrous, sarcastic leopards, and colorful campgrounds.

http://cellar.org/2015/capetoon2.jpg

OMG the toadstools, tremble in terror before your toadstool overlords...

The map was created by Frederick Coulton Waugh a British ex-pat, cartoonist/illustrator/painter, son of marine artist Frederick Judd Waugh, and grandson of the Philadelphia portrait painter Samuel Waugh.

Misery index...

It is pretty interesting...Catron County for example, which is desolate to begin with at about 3500 pop., has 12 black residents all of whom have bachelor's degrees.

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What? :eyebrow:

He's kinda new.

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From here, not much info.

They feel safe making claims nobody lives long enough to refute. ;)

Tsk tsk, old blighty is slipping.

:idea:Or more technically advanced so they can get more of the zoom per once... er, gram.

242 oz?

Is that dry weight or actual prepared tea in a cup?

A box of tea weighs 2.37 oz and makes 40 cups. So 242 oz would be 4,084 cups of tea a year. Seems way too high, since 4,084 cups a year is 11 cups a day. So maybe it's prepared tea, which is about 6 ounces per cup. So 242 ounces divided by 6 is 40 cups a year. Or once every 9 days.

Which is more realistic? 11 cups a day or one cup every 9 days? I'd have to go with 11 cups a day, but that's just crazy. If you sleep 8 hours a day (unlikely consuming that much caffeine) you would be drinking 11 cups over 16 hours. Once every 90 minutes or so.

Making a cup of tea and drinking it is a mini-event. It takes time. You put the kettle on, wait for the water to heat, slowly sip the hot tea. It takes maybe 15 minutes for this mini-event. Or a sixth of your 90 minutes in
between each cup.

So in Turkey they spend one sixth of their life drinking tea.

I guess that's why they have these guys.
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Turkey...Do they use those little, teensy, tiny tea cups?

More UK stuff, a couple surprised me.

... and most of the Queens of Oregon are younger and prettier than the Duchess of Cornwall

Charts. Graphs. Too many. Too big.

The Cost(s) Of Attending A Major League Baseball Game

:speechls:

Mo Money
 

Still making it....

Amazon is like a mall, lot's of sellers besides Amazon itself, selling from the Amazon tent.
I got intrigued by the number of sellers selling the same product and how the price spread and gimmicks like free shipping played out.
I did this a couple months ago so prices may not be current, and don't ask why I picked Oxi-Clean, I don't know. :blush:

Looks like a lot of work to put that info together, but it IS interesting, and if I were buying oxi-clean, I'd want to know.

A cheat sheet for f-stop, shutter speed, and ISO:

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Great post!

and the explainer.

As they say..worth a thousand or so....

A beaut, wouldn't you say?

and Thanks!

I thought it was quite handy. I rarely post actually useful stuff, so, :D.

What each state has more of per capita.

http://cellar.org/2015/1st-map1.jpg

The site has more detail, like...

Or...
Maybe...

I'm too lazy to verify, but, I've heard that most of Kentucky tobacco is exported.

I actually thought Virginia made more tobacco.

KY?
Produces the most tobacco... per capita.
Has the most smokers... per capita.
Highest rate of lung cancer... per capita.
Most cancer deaths... per capita.

Not saying it's true, just each statement is qualified.

Oregon's problem of "Selling cigarettes to Children" is easily explained.

Adults can not afford them.

Ok, I get it.
Ok, I get it.
Ok, I get it.
Ok, I get it.

Richest people in each state, according to this, anyway.

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Third one of these I've seen this year.

How the fuck do they say Ohio has the highest per capita of 'potty mouths?' What kind of shitty surveying is that? Some goddam mother fuckers walk around qualifying and quantifying potty coming out of a bunch of stupid assholes' mouths?

Joking aside, it is pretty fucking stupid. In all seriousness...it's bullshit probably not based in any damn kind of scientific statistics. /sarcasm font, sort of. ;)

you said it!

As a Pennsylvanian, the only thing I have to say about that is I'lllll be hoooooome for Christmaaaaas...

People from Ohio like to be called "Buckeyes"
Buckeyes are "potty-mouthed" nuts from the Fetid Buckeye tree.

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Yeah...You know what was conveniently left out of all that bullshit?

Forgiveness.

You can be forgiven for everything in that, that, whateverthefuckyouwanttocallit.

And all it takes is asking.

You don't have to be perfect. Just forgiven.

All you have to do is ask, and forgiveness will be given to you.
Because God said so.

Spotify music choice data crunching suggests that as we age, we stop listening to pop music and become more settled in our preferences. Or put another way, old people listen to old music.

This spiral shows that over time, people listen to less popular artists.
(A couple other charts at the link above show other music trends by gender and parenthood.)



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Ida posted 'em, but, they're too many, and, too big.

Historical vs. Modern: Comparing Processing Power of Various Electronic Devices

Example:

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Interesting graph is in the video.

Have you ever felt like the government doesn’t really care what you think?

Professors Martin Gilens (Princeton University) and Benjamin I. Page (Northwestern University) looked at more than 20 years worth of data to answer a simple question: Does the government represent the people?

Their study took data from nearly 2000 public opinion surveys and compared it to the policies that ended up becoming law. In other words, they compared what the public wanted to what the government actually did. What they found was extremely unsettling: The opinions of 90% of Americans have essentially no impact at all.

Griff's video for those avoiding links.

That should be shown in schools.

Followed it through to the video linked in the upper right at the end. Their plan to fix it actually seems pretty solid. Their first target for city-wide anti-corruption laws for politicians, Tallahassee, got passed last year. This year they're looking to add more cities, and hopefully a state or two. Local is the way to go.

It should be mandatory to watch before you vote

I liked me some TsingTao back in the day. It goes really well with Chinese take-aways, don't cha know.

I'm surprised not to see Cobra (Indian beer favoured over here too) on the chart.

But I can attest that if you ask for a lager in Amsterdam you will get Heineken every time. In half litre glasses that are 4/5 beer and 1/5 head. So everyone who goes to Amsterdam gets head one way or another.
It's actually a perfect tourist beer, especially in the hot weather. Light and not too gassy (that's all in the froth).

It's the African versions of familiar beers you have to watch out for.
They're usually brewed locally under licence to contain more alcohol than in their country of origin, and the heat means you sweat all the useful liquid out far too quickly, making you thirsty, so you have another...
And over here (England) beers in Afro-Caribbean areas re-import them. You can get in real trouble drinking with Jamaicans, trust me. And I'm not talking about the men.

And in the US there are currently around 3500 breweries, however of the top ten beers in sales, six come from Anheuser-Busch.